Welcome to the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) — where systems thinking unlocks innovation for a sustainable future.
Transformative Innovation Policy reshapes systems to tackle urgent global challenges, such as inequality, climate change, health crises or biodiversity loss. It moves beyond technical solutions, focusing on structural change through experimentation, collaboration and learning.
Connecting policy-makers, researchers, and communities, TIPC is an international partnership seeking to shift science, technology and innovation policy towards transformation and the SDGs, through demonstrations and the building of a global knowledge community working toward systemic change.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION POLICY CONSORTIUM...
- Was initiated in 2016 as a global network with members and partners contributing from across the world, including China, Colombia, Ghana, Finland, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, Panama, Senegal, South Africa and Sweden.
- Is built on core pillars of research, experimentation and learning about the enactment of policies for transformative system change in diverse contexts.
- Has led to the emergence of regional Hubs in Africa and Latin America and a thriving global Knowledge Community.
- Is coordinated by the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School in partnership with the Joint Research Centre of the Spanish National Research Council and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (INGENIO CSIC-UPV) and the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe).
- Has translated the learning journey of members and partners into curated tools, actions and learnings in the TIP Resource Lab.
NEWS & EVENTS
THINKING AND ANALYSIS
Transformative Innovation Pathways for Water Security: Lessons from the Global South
February 25, 2026
Achieving SDG 6 requires moving beyond technology-led solutions toward systemic change in water management and use. Drawing on lessons from the Global South and the work of TIPC members and hubs, this blog by Dana Hunka and Viktoriia Krytska highlights…
Reflections on 2025
December 19, 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, we are more clearly seeing both the need for Transformative Innovation Policy and the difficulties of pursuing it in practice. Meeting for a dialogue in October, our members agreed times have changed since TIPC was…
Understanding transitions: Why emotions matter in shaping change
March 25, 2025
In September 2024, public and private investors met for the first time in Barcelona for an Engagement Week led by TIPC, Eu-SPRI and the Deep Transitions Lab. During one of the sessions devoted to inner transformations, Kristina Bogner, assistant professor at the Copernicus…