STI Policy & National Research Systems
Innovation systems, research funding, and commercialization.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Every layer of sti policy has an owner, and no layer has accountability: units report outputs, the ministry reports progress, and citizens report nothing changing. Every failed attempt makes the next sti policy reform harder to fund, staff and announce. The programme equips you to sequence reform, manage the politics and defend the evidence — the full craft of sti policy that gets delivered.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Build sti policy delivery and measurement systems that move outcomes, not activity.
- Present sti policy evidence at the cabinet table with brevity, honesty and stakes.
- Design sti policy policy that survives implementation: evidence, incentives and delivery capability.
- Trace sti policy money to outcomes and defend the trace under scrutiny.
The IPAT Course Standard
The five-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps.
IPAT Signature Case™
The Subsidy on the Cabinet Table
A subsidy now consumes more than the combined health and education capital budgets of a ministry of health. Two reform attempts ended in protests and retreat; a compensation scheme is possible but untested — and the sti policy analysis exists for neither.
Your decision: Recommend the removal design, the compensation architecture and the political sequencing — with the cabinet watching.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a national statistics office cannot trace its spending to outcomes citizens feel.
Dataset: Synthetic expenditure and outcome panel for a national statistics office, with leakage and coverage gaps.
Your task: Trace money to outcomes, find the value-for-money gaps, and design the dashboard that changes decisions.
An expenditure-to-outcome dashboard and findings memo.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 5 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build the design and evaluation framework for your institution's flagship programme: evidence base, causal chain, measurement, and delivery governance.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Transformation Architecture™
- • Cost-benefit analysis and regulatory impact assessment
- • Results-based management
- • Randomized and quasi-experimental evaluation methods
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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