tipcteam – Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium

Transforming Ideas about Innovation is the First Challenge…

Posted on May 16, 2018 (August 15, 2019) by tipcteam

In the UK at this time of year, launching a global network of innovation policy thinkers and doers is rather serendipitous. Spring and Summer themselves are transformation. Natural seasonal allies of innovation, with its Latin meaning of nova, or ‘in new’….

The 4th Industrial Revolution: A Packaging of Transformative Change?

Posted on May 16, 2018 (September 20, 2023) by tipcteam

MAY 2018 The World Economic Forum (WEF) is best known as the organiser of the annual media spectacle at Davos that brings world leaders together from government and business to show off their ski apparel while making pronouncements about the…

On Policy Experimentation: Decision, Design and Evolutionary Attitudes

Posted on May 16, 2018 (July 10, 2019) by tipcteam

MAY 2018 At the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), we are embarking on an exciting five-year programme that involves a good deal of policy experimentation and co-creation. With this blog, the first in a series that each time focuses on…

Transform Innovation Policy: Transform Our World? STI as a Game-changer for the SDGs

Posted on May 16, 2018 (March 7, 2023) by tipcteam

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the to-do list for the World. Encapsulate in 17 key points, they outline the major challenges faced by our Globe, its people and ecology. Unlike their predecessors the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the SDGs…

The view from Sweden: TIPC’s inaugural workshop meeting

Posted on January 2, 2018 (July 22, 2019) by tipcteam

FREDRIC BAUER, JOHAN CLEMENTE AND JOHAN MIÖRNER | 23 MARCH 2017 The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium’s (TIPC) first gathering to discuss inception phase work was at the University of Lund, Sweden in Feburary 2017, hosted by CIRCLE – the Centre for Innovation,…

TIPC aims outlined in Pan-Africa workshop

Posted on July 14, 2017 (September 20, 2023) by tipcteam

14 JULY 2017 In June, the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) based at the University of Sussex and the Tanzanian Government Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) co-hosted a workshop in Dar es Salaam to discuss Transformative Innovation Policy and…

Science and innovation policy as though ‘Somewhere’ mattered

Posted on April 28, 2017 (July 10, 2019) by tipcteam

28 APRIL 2017 In his book, ‘The Road to Somewhere’, David Goodhart writes a powerful analysis of recent and unexpected electoral outcomes. In his narrative, ‘Anywheres’ have dominated policy over recent decades. Anywheres are highly educated, liberal elites committed…

A story of Finnish foresight & paradox

Posted on March 27, 2017 (July 10, 2019) by tipcteam

27 MARCH 2017 Many economists have questioned why, in the main, their discipline neglected to foresee the global economic crisis of 2008. This failure of foresight extended, even in our era of hyper-globalisation, to some national governments who incorrectly…

An experiment in innovation policy for transformative change

Posted on March 9, 2017 (September 20, 2023) by tipcteam

PRISCILLA MENSAH, SEPO HACHIGONTA, IMRAAN PATEL, ERIKA KRAEMER-MBULA, KAMBIDIMA WOTELA & CHUX DANIELS | 09 MARCH 2017 Part 2 of 2 “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them” Albert Einstein The White…