Panel discussion – Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium

#32 Crowdsourcing the Future! Mobilising the collective imagination to shape...

18 January 2022

To tackle the greatest challenges of our time, tremendous levels of investment will be needed to transform the unsustainable systems that our societies are built upon. Deep Transitions Futures is an interdisciplinary research project that brings together social scientists from...

DST/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation and Sustainable...

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8 November 2021

The DST/NRF/Newton Fund Trilateral Research Chair in Transformative Innovation, the 4th Industrial Revolution and Sustainable Development is a partnership between three organisations: the host, the University of Johannesburg; the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) , which is a...

Governing industrial transitions – Policy experiences from across Europe

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8 November 2021

While much has been written on the rationales and need for transformative innovation policies, there are still few studies or initiatives that provide an understanding of what is needed on part of policy and public administration to become more ‘transformational’....

A three-way framework to promote the use of responsible research...

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8 November 2021

The current state of the art in metrics for evaluating scientific production in Colombia is structured around a points-based system that encourages individual or group research performance, instead of collaborative research. Furthermore, the system is still weak when it comes...

Promoting international learning and coordination for transformation: the JRC S4...

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8 November 2021

We are proposing a session that reports on two new flagship policy initiatives by international organisations – the OECD and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre – which are unique in sharing explicitly transformative framings and objectives. The OECD’s “S&T...

STIP Compass – a knowledge infrastructure for transformation?

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8 November 2021

This panel session focuses on STIP Compass, a digital knowledge management infrastructure maintained by the European Commission and OECD for collecting and displaying data on countries’ STI policies. STIP Compass contains information on more than 6,000 STI policy initiatives currently...

Contrasting transformative experiments through variegated representations of space

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8 November 2021

Meta-frameworks have undoubted advantages for public policy – they can help to articulate new imaginaries and can serve as guides towards specific actions (and as vehicles for funding). But there can also be downsides, especially when practices inspired by these...

Comparing learning materials across TIPC – A contribution from TIPC...

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8 November 2021

We would like to propose a panel session that can be a space to demonstrate the learning materials we are developing within TIPC on South Africa, the other TIP Africa Hub countries (Ghana, Kenya and Senegal), and Latin America. The...

Assessing the transformative potential of mission-oriented innovation policies for meeting...

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8 November 2021

Many countries have set up ambitious GHG reduction targets, often with the long-term goal to become climate-neutral by 2050 or before, and some of them are implementing various types of mission-oriented innovation policies to contribute to meet these targets. The...