This paper asks how governments can pursue the alignment of institutions to technologies in times of technical change as a policy objective. While the literature on the coevolution between institutions and technologies does a fine job in describing the general processes and highlighting the necessity of aligning institutions to technical changes, it fails in its explanation of which institutions would match what technologies and how governments could facilitate such an alignment. To overcome the first obstacle this paper explores the notion of coherence because it contains the means to compare and match institutions to technologies. To overcome the latter obstacle this paper digs deeper into theories on institutional evolution and coevolution in order to link ‘coevolutionary situations’ to the required policies for achieving alignment. Combined with the existing body of knowledge they may be able to create a framework for the pursuit of institutional alignment to technical changes. The aim is to explore the use of the two ideas in this regard. The paper finds that while the method of coherence is valuable in overcoming the first obstacle, it narrows the scope of the application of the overall framework to its definition of institutions and technologies. The model to derive policies for alignment seems promising but faces difficulties in application to situations further into the future and neglects what governments actually can do.