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Faced with the current societal challenges of today, a new era of innovation policy is emerging, focused on transformation failures and the important task to tackle societal problems. Mission-oriented innovation policy (MIP), is one example of such transformative innovation policies. In contrast to previous innovation policies, we argue that mission-oriented innovation policies distinguish themselves by its explicit focus on the involvement of citizens; citizen engagement is a core element of missions to enable societal transitions. We present a theoretical framework to understand and explicate citizen engagement in mission-oriented innovation policy processes and discuss various methods and tools to design for citizen engagement in a way that is tailored to the mission at hand [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]