Transformative Metrics for Responsible and Transformative Innovation: Putting People at the Centre. Exploring Windows for Change in a State Initiative on Gender and Innovation Monitoring within the European Merge of Governance Frames

Abstract

Metrics and indicators have a curious influence on our daily lives. Researchers, especially in some countries, are impelled to look for the impact factor of a publication according to current career structures. Public authorities and scientific and business institutions are trying to adjust the metrics to what is demanded by Brussels or other international authorities to access funds or to position themselves in some prestigious ranking. They are not unique motivators for action although they are sometimes set as incentives. If we talk about the nature of governance in the times we are living, metrics are part of the landscape, sometimes deemed as the trees that do not let us see the forest.