Blog Series: Making the Green New Deal Happen – Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium

Contestation in Transformative Innovation Policy: Harnessing tensions as windows of...

Thinking & Analysis

31 October 2023

Socio-technical transitions are contested processes, often characterised by conflict. However, the tensions experienced by stakeholders can act as windows of opportunity to further transition goals if their generative potential for learning and innovation can be harnessed. In this guest insight...

Recap of Globelics conference session: Potential and barriers of TIP...

Thinking & Analysis

25 October 2023

As part of the 2023 Globelics international conference, Bipashyee Ghosh hosted a special session about policy, investment and activism for systemic transformation: Potential and barriers of Transformative Innovation Policy and Deep Transitions in global south contexts. This piece provides valuable...

INVESTING IN TRANSFORMATION

Thinking & Analysis

17 August 2023

What is the relationship between TIPC and the Deep Transitions project? When the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) launched in 2016, part of the rationale provided for its conception was that the world is in a ‘Deep Transition’. This was...

Reflections on TIPC 1.0 Milestones

Thinking & Analysis

17 August 2023

As we evolve into the expansion and scaling stage of Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP), we take a look through the key milestones of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium’s (TIPC) first phase from 2016 to 2023. We have highlighted the illustrative...

Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab: The Low Down on the...

Thinking & Analysis

24 April 2023

The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) is proud to have launched the TIP Resource Lab (TIP RL). In this blog we break down the elements of the launch event to introduce this significant online platform dedicated to systems change for sustainability....

TIPC AND DEEP TRANSITIONS: REFLECTIONS ON THE FIRST FIVE YEAR...

Thinking & Analysis

19 April 2023

In this month’s guest blog, founder and Academic Director of TIPC – and partner project Deep Transitions – Professor Johan Schot shares his learnings, experiences and aims for the future of these pioneering transformative system change action-research projects. “With both...

How to co-create in research and innovation for societal challenges

Thinking & Analysis

31 March 2023

For addressing grand societal challenges such as climate change or biodiversity loss, the power of research and innovation is an important consideration. In this context, a new framework has emerged that invites us to re-think how we can...

TRANSITIONING TO ELECTRIFIED, AUTOMATED AND SHARED MOBILITY IN AN AFRICAN...

Thinking & Analysis

15 December 2022

A study on three innovations has reveals positive and negative barriers to the decarbonisation of transport systems in the global South in the context of Africa. Academics from the science policy research unit published a recent finding which centred on...

THE DYNAMICS OF GLOBAL PUBLIC RESEARCH FUNDING ON CLIMATE CHANGE,...

Thinking & Analysis

15 December 2022

Thirty years of climate research funding have overlooked the potential of experimental transformative technologies. A new study by academics from the University of Sussex Business School Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), which used a transformative innovation framework, discovered the academic...