Without this evaluative judgement, the endeavour to provide a wider set of means for people through the operation of the innovation system cannot really be assessed.
Second, it draws attention to the fact, that policy-makers are in need of knowledge and information that is scattered amongst a large number of actors. This probably necessitates novel ways of policy learning, and the reshaping of the borderline between expert and lay/citizen, which is also one of the main arguments of the actor-network theory