ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the various participatory performance functions of innovative public engagement (PE), by analysing such governance activities that emerged from the 38 cases studied. It provides the activities that contributed to the four capacities of dynamic governance: anticipation, reflection, transdisciplinarity and continuity. Anticipation refers to the capacity for prospective thinking and acting. Reflection refers to the capacity to accomplish critical reflective dialogues publicly with relevant stakeholders, who can take the role of the other, develop shared values, and subject their reasoning to public scrutiny. Continuity is needed to balance the accelerated change caused by increasingly dynamic governance actions. Continuity was related to the aims to institutionalise the use of PE tools in research and innovation (R&I) governance, and in some cases, to the institutionalisation of the principles of deliberative democracy in R&I governance, which is actually a highly ideological project.
