04. Politics and Governance of Transformative Change – Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium

Utrecht University’s “Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy Observatory”

28 October 2019

The “Mission-Oriented Innovation Policy Observatory” (MIPO) is an initiative by the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University. Its objective is to create an understanding of the challenges and promises of mission-oriented innovation policies (MIPs), by uniting practitioners and scholars...

Nomadic Education in Kenya: A Case Study of Mobile Schools...

Poster

24 October 2019

John Ayisi1, Frank Ndakala1, Rose Nyanga2, Chux Daniels3, Boniface Wanyama4, Roselida Owuor1,5 1 Ministry of Education, Directorate of Research, Science and Technology (DRST), Nairobi, Kenya. 2 Maseno University, Kenya 3 Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK 4...

Smart information, governance and business innovations for sustainable supply and...

Poster

24 October 2019

The InnoForESt project (running from 2017-2020) fosters networking initiatives in six case study regions to explore potentials for the development of transformative policy instruments and business models for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services. The potential to scale up...

Paradoxes of transformative innovation policy in practice

Poster

24 October 2019

Faced with pressing societal challenges, disruptive technological change, grand transitions (energy, circular economy, health, digitization) and a rapidly changing politico-economic European and world stage, the need to act, adjust and re-steer in our society has increased significantly. Technology and innovation...

Transformative Innovation Policy Research on e-Waste Management in Ghana

Poster

23 October 2019

Transformation Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) research team in Ghana thoroughly analysed the Science Technology and Innovation (STI) ecosystem in Ghana, mapped actors’ roles and their responsibilities, against the backdrop of the different framings of transformative change process. The e-waste management...

Transparency Policies are Coupled with Transformative Innovation: Transforming Data Infra...

Poster

22 October 2019

While opening research data is slowly, but steadily changing socio-technical systems to reduce air pollution, some barriers impede the implementation of data analysis on social problems. The major barrier is frequent changes in political agendas, which shakes sheltered space for...

Using science for/in diplomacy for addressing global challenges

Poster

22 October 2019

The complexity and geopolitical scale of grand challenges necessitates concerted international efforts turning them into challenges of foreign policy and science alike. Diplomatic skills as well as scientific expertise are needed to tackle these challenges. Unfortunately, the interface between both...

The Policy and Practice of China’s Open Scientific Data

Poster

21 October 2019

In the context of digital transformation, open scientific data has become a basic infrastructure for scientific research and innovation development. Especially for the achieving of SDGs, it becomes increasingly crucial to efficiently disseminate and communicate the scientific output. This requirement...