The Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Resource Lab offers tools, actions and learnings for implementing TIP methods and shares learnings from the journey of the TIP Consortium members. The Lab also links to academic research that drives TIP thinking about the nature of society and processes of change. The User Guide introduces the founding five components … from TIP Resource Lab User guide

User guide to Component 1, the first in the TIP Resource Lab, which takes us through the first four section of the Lab, and sets out how a systemic understanding of how we meet social needs, viewed through the lens of transitions theory and anticipatory thinking, can help us to reframe our understanding of how … from Component 1 User Guide: Systems and Change

This guide walks users through Component 2 and the tools, actions and learnings for enacting a TIP experiment towards transformative system change. … from Component 2 User Guide: TIP Experimentation

This user guide provides the narrative and theory behind the tools and learning materials in this component on ‘Formative Evaluation’, the TIP Evaluation methodology. … from Component 3 User Guide: TIP Evaluation

This narrative for Component 4 of the Resource Lab focuses on capabilities for TIP. It explores the personal capabilities that have emerged as important for transformative policy approaches, the organisational learning required and the participatory engagement with TIP concepts and practice that is instrumental to shifting the values and beliefs that drive sociotechnical systems.   … from Component 4 user guide: Capabilities

This guide demonstrates how to build and develop a community of practice around Transformative Innovation Policy to accelerate system change to sustainability across contexts and actors in differing policy and practitioner spaces. … from Component 5 User Guide: TIP Knowledge and Community

Co-creation is a guiding principle for TIP, vital for ensuring that multiple perspectives can be understood and visions of alternative practice aligned. This tool was developed by TIPC and Cristian Matti at the Joint Research Centre at the European Commission to bring to life – in an online workshop setting – the ‘co-creation for policy’ … from Tool: Co-creation for policy tuner

This reflective tool helps us to think about an initiative (such as a project, programme or policy) as a Transformative Innovation Policy experiment. It draws on guiding principles co-created by TIPC members during the Consortium’s pilot phase. Users score the initiative for the presence of each principle, creating a picture of where strengths and weaknesses … from Tool: Transformative Innovation Policy Radar

This introductory workshop tool helps us to think about how we might identify the 12 transformative outcomes in experimental projects and policies. In group, users start by picking one or more transformative outcomes from three macro-process that lead to transformation. They then answer a series of questions to aid thinking about how that transformative outcome … from Tool: Identifying transformative outcomes in projects and policies

Reflexivity has emerged as a key capability for strengthening trust, participatory engagement and a learning mindset in TIP experiments. So how might we as practitioners and action researchers measure and develop our own reflexivity? This tool was designed in collaboration with the Association of Facilitators to help answer that question, adapting and building on a … from Tool: FACETS® equaliser for reflexive practice

An immersive and playful online board game to strengthen your understanding of socio-technical systems and how to enable change in a local system.   … from Tool: Systemic Change game

A step-by-step Miro tool, designed for group use, that will help a team to understand actors, materials and rules within a system, in order to identify a dominant regime. This tool is designed to be used by small groups in an online workshop setting. Facilitators should take a copy of the board for each group … from Pentagonal map for system analysis (Group version)

The MOTION self-assessment tool is an evaluation tool that can be used to assess the quality of transformative outcomes in a specific initiative. It is a test tool for use online in Miro, duplicated from the MOTION Handbook: Developing a Transformative Theory of Change. This tool can be used as part of the monitoring, evaluation … from MOTION self-assessment tool (for quality of transformative outcomes)

This tool is a ‘thinking exercise’ – a structured brainstorming process, designed to be used by an individual or group – perhaps engaging a range of actors. Users will consider the potential of an initiative (such as a project, policy or programme) to become a TIP experiment that contributes to the transformation of a socio-technical … from Tool: Articulating an initiative as a TIP experiment

This tool is designed for group use, to help us develop a transformative theory of how change happens within a socio-technical system, drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective. It complements the Pentagonal map for system analysis tool in Component 1, which identifies the dominant system regime driven by actors, materials and rules.     … from Multi-level theory of change (Group version)

This is a test Miro tool duplicated from the MOTION Handbook: Developing a Transformative Theory of Change. It can be used to help us develop and/or revise a transformative system change strategy for a project, programme or organisation. This strategy can be applied within an initiative and accompany it throughout its lifecycle, serving as an … from MOTION Transformative Theory of Change tool

This tool guides participants through a Futures Literacy Lab, a practical method to help us reveal, reframe and rethink the assumptions we use to imagine the future. It draws on TIPC’s Nordic members’ experience of running a Lab in partnership with UNESCO and The Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education in 2021. … from Tool: Futures Literacy Lab

This tool is designed for individual use, to help us develop a transformative theory of how change happens within a socio-technical system, drawing on the Multi-Level Perspective. It complements the Pentagonal map for system analysis tool in Component 1, which identifies the dominant system regime driven by actors, materials and rules. This tool does not … from Multi-level theory of change (Individual version)

A step-by-step Miro tool, designed for individual use, that will help you to understand actors, materials and rules within a system, in order to identify a dominant regime. This tool does not require facilitation, as it has been designed for use by an individual as a reflective exercise. An alternative version is available for group … from Pentagonal map for system analysis (Individual version)

The TIP Resource Lab was launched in March 2023 as the ‘connective tissue’ between the projects, experiments and geographies of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC). It offers practical tools and resources for implementing TIP methods, and shares learnings from the journey of TIPC members and partners across Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia. It also … from About the Lab

During 2022 and 2023, the Lab development team worked intensively with a global network of coaches to test tools and help scale up policy experimentation and learning across different organisational and geographical contexts. Coaches are engaged with transformative change in innovation, research or development settings. They are either working on Transformative Innovation Policy already, or … from Network of Coaches

In addition to the 50+ authors and contributors, the design and development team for the TIP Resource Lab includes the following people, who have worked in partnership with researchers and knowledge managers from TIPC hubs in Africa, Latin America and Europe. In building the site, the team are particularly grateful to the Latin American and … from Team

The Resource Lab was created by the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), a multi-country initiative dedicated to how policymakers, academics and funding agencies can orientate science, technology and innovation towards transition and a more sustainable future. Members aim to transform socio-technical systems for meeting societal needs, such as those for energy, healthcare or food, with … from About TIPC