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

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...

SCIENCE FOR WHOM? EXAMINING THE DATA QUALITY, THEMES, AND TRENDS...

Thinking & Analysis

15 December 2022

Three decades of climate and energy funding have revealed incremental funding for social science and interdisciplinary research funding. A study by the Science Policy Research Unit of the University of Sussex Business School academics suggests that public funding for research...

Making the Green New Deal Happen Blog Series, July 2022:...

Thinking & Analysis

28 July 2022

As I write this blog, news about a severe drought in the Po Valley is on the front pages of European newspapers. The water shortage is forcing authorities to introduce water rationing for citizens in 125 municipalities and halting...