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

Accelerated decarbonization of academic conferences is necessary and urgent. Despite the window of opportunity that COVID-19 created for rethinking conferences, there is a risk of slipping back into old habits now that restrictions are lifted. This commentary reports on recent experiences with a unique, sustainable approach to academic conferencing involving an international partnership and hub … from Transitioning to sustainable academic conferences needs more experimentation and reflection

In an executive course on sustainable finance, Professor Manuel Laranja used the pentagonal map to introduce participants to the systems perspective and to surface the need to change how the finance system funds sustainability projects.  At the Lisbon Schools of Economics and Management ISEG, Professor Laranja is involved in facilitating an executive course on sustainable … from Blog: Exploring the pentagonal map for system analysis in a finance context

For an in-person evaluation workshop in Indonesia, Suci Lestari Yuana used the Formative Evaluation guidelines as a basis and transformed the MIRO canvas for identifying Transformative Outcomes into an offline exercise. A simplified version of the framework helped workshop participants to reflect on the impact of their circular economy initiatives.  In the pursuit of sustainable … from Blog: Evaluating Transformative Change: Insights from the Indonesia Green Principle Awards Workshop

When working in interdisciplinary teams, reaching a shared understanding and agreed approach can be challenging. In this blog post, Dr Patience Mguni reflects upon her experience of using the structured brainstorming and the policy radar tool to facilitate greater dialogue and create a shared discourse. This blog posts features the work of the Pathways to … from Blog: Transformative nature based solutions to enhance water provision and liveability in Cape Town

This influential paper from the Aspen Institute proposed the ‘Theory of Change Approach’ for the Comprehensive Community Initiative (CCI). Three stages in carrying out this approach are identified and elaborated, namely, surfacing and articulating a theory of change; measuring a CCI’s activities and intended outcomes; and analyzing and interpreting the results of an evaluation, including … from Applying a Theory of Change Approach to the Evaluation of Comprehensive Community Initiatives

Hivos values working with Theory of Change (ToC) as an appropriate approach to guide its strategic thinking and action, as well as its collaborative action with others. The use of a ToC approach fosters critical questioning of all aspects of change interventions and supports adaptive planning and management in response to diverse and quickly changing … from Hivos Theory of Change

Enabling collaboration across disciplines, business functions, departments, organizations, and industries is a critical innovation management challenge. Successful innovation depends on effective knowledge integration among diverse actors. The concept of boundary objects to achieve knowledge integration has gained increasing popularity within innovation management. Despite the growing relevance, existing literature reviews about boundary objects are sparse. This … from Boundary objects, knowledge integration, and innovation management: A systematic review of the literature

Inspired by the human development values and capability approach that are in tune with its ethos, the Universidad de Ibagué developed a participatory process to build a comprehensive capabilities list for the university community and the external actors that cooperate with it. As a private institution serving a region beset by conflict, the university feels … from Expanding Epistemic Capability in Participatory Decision-Making Processes: The Universidad de Ibagué Capabilities List

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