Abstract: Methods and systems for optimizing innovative capacity and new economic value from aggregates of public and private national, state, provincial and industry sector assets are disclosed. Sets of policy adjustment operations are performed to existing levels of the assets to attain desired benchmark settings based on optimal values and relationships for innovative capacity drivers derived from models and observations of economic performance data. The rate of change and the amount of increase in innovative capacity and economic value is monitored over time in relation to the extent of attainment of the desired benchmark values.