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Transformative Innovation Policy Africa Hub Exploratory

Publications

10 September 2020 | Chux Daniels

The Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Africa Exploratory Hub (TIP Africa Hub, henceforth, for short) was conducted over a 12-month period, from November 2018 to November 2019. The research, led by Dr Chux Daniels and coordinated by the Science...

Conference & Workshop Reports

TIP Policy Experiment in South Africa Launches

News

7 July 2020

TIPC is expanding its programme of policy experimentation to include a project from founding member country, South Africa. This project focuses on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) associated with provision of water and sanitation. The collaborative project – the...

TIPC Policy Brief: Transforming Science, Technology and Innovation Policies in...

Publications

4 December 2019 | Chux Daniels and Blanche Ting

Africa’s transformation ambitions towards a knowledge economy that is underpinned by innovation is articulated in continental frameworks such as Agenda 2063 and Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy for Africa 2024 (STISA-2024), and the Continental Education Strategy for Africa...

Policy Briefs

Transformative Decision Support Tools for Sustainable Human Settlements

Poster

25 October 2019

The broad objective of the study is to facilitate the identification existing decision support tools, develop criteria for selecting a high impact and transformational support tool, pilot the tool and make recommendations to the Department of Science and Technology on...

Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development Trilateral...

Poster

25 October 2019

This programme is a partnership between the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), the University of Sussex ( and the African Centre for Technology Studies ( in Kenya It started in mid 2019 and will unfold over an initial period of...

Opening up the regime, and unlocking path dependencies for transformative...

Poster

23 October 2019

Socio-technical regimes are characterised as path dependent, because there are: (1) incumbent actors which have been vested in maintaining the status quo, (2) a network of actors that reprepsent organisational capital, (3) regulations and standards that enable continuity of the...

22 October 2019 - 24 October 2019

TIP Africa Hub Experimentation Training

The South African National Foundation of Research are hosting a 2 day training on policy experimentation for African policymakers to embark on a National Programme of Transformation. Professor Johan Schot, Academic Director of TIPC, said of the Transformative innovation Policy (TIP) training:...

Launch of Transformative Innovation Policy Africa Hub

News

11 December 2018

11 DECEMBER 2018 Senegal, Ghana and Kenya are set to participate in the new Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Africa Hub. Supported by current Consortium member, South African’s National Research Foundation (NRF), they will collaboratively look at ways to strengthen their...

South Africa Fact File

Policy Resources

30 October 2018

Understand the work that the National Research Council in South Africa is doing on inclusive innovation using a TIP approach....

Member Country Fact Files