Bipashyee Ghosh

The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, and scholars have explored new rationales and processes for policymaking, such as transformative innovation policy (TIP). Here, we address the question of how to orient the efforts of science, technology, and innovation policy … from Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy

Interactions between studies on transformative innovation policy and sustainability transitions have lately generated a rich stream of work on steering system innovation. Yet the tools to understand, formulate and evaluate transformative innovation policy have so far mostly focused on single systems. This is problematic as addressing the current sustainability challenges requires transitions in a broad range of interconnected systems, and … from Integrated framework of intervention points and transformative outcomes for single- and multi-system transitions

In Deep Transitions (DT) theory, interventions are defined as “particular areas in the socio-technical system or its environment where the application of appropriate [interventions] would likely facilitate transformative change in the system’s directionality” (Kanger et al., 2020: 4). Interventions are actions taken by actors to influence different parts of a system. We initially developed a … from Taking action that drives systems change: an introduction to Interventions

Niches are new ways of driving change. They are protective spaces for innovations within society and organisations. They are alternative configurations of technology, institutions, practices, and discourses that embrace new ways of thinking and doing. Niches are driven by innovations (social and technological), but should not be conflated with them. We use innovations/initiatives/alternative practices as … from How we transform our world: an introduction to niches

This tool is all about mapping where new ways of doing things are emerging and how we can practically challenge our unsustainable systems. You’ll be introduced to the DT concept of niches and work in a group to map and grow niches so they are capable of disrupting our current systems. You’ll learn theory and … from Tool: Mapping where change is emerging

With this interactive Miro tool, you will become familiar with segments of the DT theory. You will experiment with the future worlds, niche building and interventions. These are all critical elements to building resilient pathways. You will think about what alternatives there are to our unsustainable practices and what actions you can take to move … from Tool: Moving towards sustainable futures

Discover more about our three visions for the future in this short and easy-to-watch video. This collection of illustrated narratives of the mobility, energy and food systems in three future worlds – and the journey towards those worlds between 2020 and 2050 – was developed for the Deep Transitions Investors Panel in 2021. The stories … from Video: three future worlds

This interactive Miro board tool will help you understand how change happens in a system, help you identify what you want to change and what direction to go in to nourish that change.   … from Tool: how to change a system

Sustainability transitions research recognises that transforming energy, mobility, food, and other systems requires going beyond incremental, surface-level fixes to address the deeper drivers of system change. Yet these deeper drivers have not been systematically identified.In this paper, the authors argue that the Deep Transitions (DT) concept of rules provides a useful starting point. Rules are … from Identifying the deep drivers of system change: A rule-based approach to socio-technical system mapping

This journal article critically interrogates the core principles identified early in TIPC’s journey, and re-examining the directionality of these principles through the lens of the Capability Approach (CA). Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) requires inclusive and participatory approaches that empower diverse actors to influence systemic change, thus reinforcing democratic engagement and shared agency in shaping transitions. … from A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality

This article is a comprehensive review of Transformative Innovation Policy that synthesises emerging research to clarify its goals, methods, and challenges. Systems such as energy, food, and mobility are currently organized in unsustainable modes of production and consumption, with negative consequences on social justice and planetary health. Disruptive and systemic innovations are required, beyond solely improving … from Transformative Innovation Policy: An Analytical Review of Key Methods and Challenges

Knowledge communities are crucial for systemic change, as they facilitate the co‑creation of actionable knowledge, support ongoing experimentation, and help embed transformative thinking into policy and practice. This journal article explores how communities of practice can be created and sustained to generate, integrate, and use the diverse knowledge needed for Transformative Innovation Policy. Using the … from Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP): An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 2022

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

Seeds of the futures: creating pathways to a better world is a game created from DT theory where teams step into the role of world-builders to create long-term pathways toward sustainable and just futures. The game is designed for policy makers, investors, researchers, system thinkers – anyone working at the frontier of sustainability and transitions … from Game – Seeds of the future: creating pathways to a better world

This guide for the facilitators of the game: Seeds of the future, creating pathways to a better world. Read through this guide first, and then you can either play with the physical board and cards or use the online game which can be found here: https://tipresourcelab.net/resource/game-seeds-of-the-future-creating-pathways-to-a-better-world/   … from Seeds of the future: Facilitator game guide

Transformative Outcomes provide a way for us to monitor and evaluate progress toward deeper systemic change. They can be used as indicators to describe macro-processes that lead to transformation, including: Building and nurturing niches – Dynamics that contribute to the construction and growth of a new initiative, (social) practice or technology Expanding and mainstreaming niches … from Tool: Transformative Outcomes worksheet

In this exercise, you will use a transitions theory called the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) to understand how change happens in a socio-technical system – e.g. an energy, health, food or water system – and identify opportunities to influence these dynamics through your investment strategies. Part 1 helps you to create a theory of change for … from Tool: Multi-level theory of change (Investor version)

This tool is designed to help you visualise a system that you are seeking to effect change in through your investment portfolio. As you complete the exercise, you will build a picture of the ingredients in a system that maintain its stability and functionality over time – and consider the niches (alternative practices) that might … from Tool: Pentagonal map for system analysis (Investor version)

User Guide for Component 2, providing the narrative and theory behind the tools and learning materials. The guide explores the notion of experimentation, and introduces how we define and manage experiments in Transformative Innovation Policy-orientated projects, programmes and policy initiatives.   … from Component 2 User Guide: Experimentation for Transformative Innovation Policy

This User Guide explores 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: Knowledge infrastructure and communities of practice

User Guide for Component 3, exploring why the radical nature of transformative change requires a different, formative approach to evaluation – one that addresses transformative outcomes and sheds light on the rules driving a system and the dynamics of change.   … from Component 3 User Guide: Monitoring, evaluation and learning using Transformative Outcomes

This presentation details: Experiences from Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC):Projects related to Energy and Climate themes given by the team in relation to COP 26 in 2021.   … from TIPC Projects Related to Energy Sussex Energy Group: COP26

This short report created with EIT Climate-KIC defines and illustrates the role of intermediaries in relation to the transformative outcomes sought by TIP practitioners. It explores how intermediaries can push change beyond system optimisation into more transformative territory, outlining three key messages: • that intermediaries can play a role in enabling transformative outcomes by building … from The role of intermediary actors in transformative change

This simple Miro tool was developed for the five-day ‘live reflection and learning’ journey at the TIP conference in 2022, to help guide participants through a day-by-day exploration of three cross-cutting conference aims: Networking Aligning visions Learning and unlearning Each day, participants were invited to answer a series of reflective questions, share their personal experiences … from Tool: Live reflection and learning at the TIP conference

This report compiles discussions and presentations from the 2018 conference of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC), held on 3–4 October at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex. Based on detailed session notes, it captures the debates and insights emerging from parallel sessions across the two-day event. The report explores key … from 2018 TIPC CONFERENCE REPORT

This workshop report covers a wide range of case studies drawm from the global South in which the transformative outcomes were employed to interpret experience or to guide action. … from Transformative Outcomes in the Global South Workshop Report

This report summarises discussions held with over 100 researchers on ten questions about future research areas of TIP categorised under three main themes – 1) conceptualisation, 2) actors and contexts and 3) operationalisation of TIP.   … from TOWARDS A TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION POLICY (TIP) RESEARCH AGENDA

The Mobile Transformative Innovation Lab (MoTIL) was the precursor to the Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab. These slides give an insight into the early conceptual thinking on which TIP Resource Lab was formed.   … from Presentation: What is the Mobile Transformative Innovation Lab (MoTIL)?

This presentation outlines the rationale for the development of the Transformative Innovation Policy Resource Lab. It outlines the origins and why it was created: •Mobilising emerging third frame of Innovation policy focussed on systems change •Convey core understanding of TIP as an alternative policy intervention •Some evidences of “Exemplary TIP practise” •Repackage last 4 years … from Slidedeck on TIP resource lab Components 1 to 3

This presentation was prepared at the early planning stages of, what was then termed the ‘TIPC Handbook’. This evolved to be the TIP Resource Lab. The slide deck was prepared with the purpose of providing key background information about the role of the handbook* in the context of TIPC work and for capacity development, as … from TIP Resource Lab Handbook initial conceptualisation

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the third of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.    ‘When the moonshot became an earthshot’ images a future Inspired by the spirit of the 20th-century missions that put … from World 3: Earthshot

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the second of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.    ‘Do No Harm’ imagines a world characterised by a very different understanding of the relationship between our natural world … from World 2: Do no harm

This short story, reproduced from the Deep Transitions website, introduces the first of three desirable worlds created for the Investors Panel in 2021. For more on the philosophy and principles of Transformative Investment, visit www.transformativeinvestment.net.  ‘After the frugal turn’ imagines a future in which limitless consumption as a foundational and completely irreversible principle for development … from World 1: After the frugal turn

This presentation provides a summary of four TIPC projects which have run in South Africa, Latin America, with Vinnova in Sweden and the European institute of Technology’s Climate Knowledge and innovation Community (EIT Climate KIC) project – MOTION. The presentation shows the variety of implementation pathways that each project has taken, with the purpose of identifying … from TIPC Projects OVERVIEW OF APPROCHES, METHODS AND LEARNING MATERIALS

This extract from a workshop report shows how the tool for transformative outcomes quality and constraint mapping was used to work with case studies from Nairobi, Bogota and Kolkata, discussing informal settlements, governance of wetlands and mobility. Each of the groups was asked to analyse the transformative outcomes in terms of quality and the challenges … from Case study analysis through the lens of transformative outcomes

How can projects, programmes and policies orientated towards system change be made more transformative? This is an extract from a TIPC Open Learning Series event in November 2021, in which TIPC contributors and participants from research, policy and practice explore why a redirection of policy is needed and how it is possible. The extract features … from Transformative outcomes: Practical tools to empower and scale system change

This simple tool is designed to be printed and used by a workshop facilitator, to help participants in a group map/assess the quality of transformative outcomes and constraints across a variety of case studies. TIPC has identified 12 transformative outcomes across three transformation macro processes. However, a key issue is assessing the quality of the … from Tool for transformative outcomes quality and constraint mapping

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

This is a foundational text to understand the conceptualisation and TIP approach towards ‘Transformative Outcomes’. The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, and scholars have explored new rationales and processes for policymaking, such as transformative innovation policy (TIP). Here, we … from TRANSFORMATIVE OUTCOMES: ASSESSING AND REORIENTING EXPERIMENTATION WITH TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION POLICY

This extract reflects on the conference theory of change, desired impact, and the outcomes, outputs and activities adopted for the conference. The remainder of the report focuses on the monitoring, evaluation and learning plan, results and conclusions, and is introduced in Component 3 of the Resource Lab. … from Extract: Experimentation committee report for the TIP Conference

The conference theory of change illustrates how the experimentation committee sought to design, execute and evaluate the conference as a transformative experiment. It shows the activities, assumptions, outputs, transformative outcome and long-term goals behind building a sustainable and inclusive knowledge infrastructure for systemic transformation pathways.     … from Conference theory of change

These slides accompany the video on experimentation at the conference, setting out the need to go beyond traditional conferences, what we mean by experimentation in this context, and the experimental methodology. The slides also show the transformative theory of change for the event and the monitoring, evaluation and learning plan. … from Slides: Experimenting with the TIP conference

Can a conference be delivered as a transformative experiment? This thought-provoking recording sets out the work of the experimentation committee for the TIP conference in 2022, introducing why the choice was made to experiment with the conference and how this was done. The presentation shares the transformative theory of change and monitoring, evaluation and learning … from Experimentation and evaluation at the TIP conference

This blog on experimental cases selected by the Africa Hub illustrates different levels of policy experimentation aligned to local context. The table provides a snapshot of how experiments sought to stretch and transform some system dimensions, while fitting and conforming to other dimensions. … from ‘Fit and conform’ vs ‘stretch and transform’: Snapshot of Africa Hub experiments

Experience of experimentation within TIPC’s Africa Hub indicates that designing an experiment for Transformative Innovation Policy requires the following: Firstly, the bringing together of a diverse understanding and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders across all stages of research and innovation pathways in non-linear ways. Secondly, this calls for a stronger shift towards a … from Selecting experiments: Insights from the Africa Hub

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 collection of illustrated narratives of the mobility, energy and food systems in three future worlds – and the journey towards those worlds between 2020 and 2050 – was developed for the Deep Transitions Investors Panel in 2021. The stories provide a valuable example of how anticipation and collective imagination can be used to translate … from Three Desirable Future Worlds

User guide to Component 1, the first in the TIP Resource Lab, which takes us through the first four sections 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: Developing a theory of change for a sociotechnical system

Video extract of the presentation of the process of building a conference ToC to change a traditional conference approach, presented by Dr Bipashyee Ghosh, TIPC Research Fellow and Experimentation & Reflections Committee Member for the TIP Conference 2022: Developing a Knowledge Infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP).   … from Transformative Innovation Policy 2022 Conference Theory of Change video

TIP Africa Hub masterclass extract, which goes deeper into the role of niches in a multi-level theory of change. The presentation examines how niches can be nurtured and protected, learning, and the importance of navigating visions and expectations.   … from Masterclass: Co-creating transformative niches

This tutorial video, narrated by researcher Andrea Padilla Cuevas, shows how to play the Systemic Change game, including explanations of the cards, winning and losing states and an example of the first round.   … from Tutorial video for the Systemic Change online board game

Mobility systems in megacities are facing persistent sustainability problems. A focus on regime shift in transitions literature in addressing these problems reflects a western bias as it relies on niches as sources of change. In megacities like in Kolkata, India, public transportation is dominant, and actors are more concerned to improve and upgrade a variety … from Towards a novel regime change framework: Studying mobility transitions in public transport regimes in an Indian megacity

Games are a known source of entertainment, especially for children. But games can also be effective learning tools for adults, especially in interdisciplinary education and policy spaces. In this paper, we argue that game-based learning can help the socio-cognitive and emotional understanding of the complexities of sociotechnical system change, as proposed in the sustainability transitions … from Experimenting with game-based learning for a playful understanding of systemic transitions for implementing Transformative Innovation Policy

This tool was created for the Resource Lab 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, which characterises the incumbent system regime driven by actors, materials and rules. The Multi-Level Perspective (MLP) proposes that change … from Tool: Multi-level theory of change

A step-by-step Miro tool, designed for individual use, that will help you to surface a dominant ‘system regime’ by identifying actors, materials/resources and rules across five dimensions: Science and technology Policy and governance Culture Users and markets Business and industry It can help us to visualise the patterns producing a societal challenge, and to build … from TOOL: Pentagonal map for system analysis

Brief presentation on game-based learning about systemic change, exploring how the online board game can play a role in supporting understanding of issues, contexts, and actions; transforming frames of reference; and showcasing the advantages of transdisciplinary network building.   … from Game Based Learning about Systemic Change

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

This TIPC working paper, Experimenting with game-based learning for a playful understanding of systemic transitions for implementing transformative innovation policy, provides a reflection on the learning process for understanding systemic transitions by unpacking the development of the System Change board game.  Games are a known source of entertainment, especially for children. But games can also be … from Experimenting with game-based learning

This step-by-step guide sets out how to play the Systemic Change online game, addressing learning goals, components, how to play, rules and reflections.   … from Information sheet for the Systemic Change game

Esta es una versión traducida de un documento de trabajo del TIPC sobre Alcances Transformadores. La inminente emergencia climática, los compromisos asumidos en el acuerdo de París y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas exigen transformaciones significativas en las economías y sociedades actuales. Los organismos de financiación … from Alcances Transformadores: Evaluación y Reorientación de la Experimentación con la Política de Innovación

Este blog es la transcripción de una conversación sobre el Covid-19, en la que Johan Schot y Bipashyee Ghosh abordan una serie de preguntas sobre el posible impacto de la pandemia en las transiciones hacia la sostenibilidad. Juntos, discuten el impacto del Covid-19 como un landscape shock, sus implicaciones para la dirección y el cambio … from Conversaciones sobre COVID-19: consecuencias para la segunda transición profunda y la revolución de la sostenibilidad

This blog is the transcript of a conversation about Covid-19, in which Johan Schot and Bipashyee Ghosh address a series of questions on the potential impact of the pandemic on sustainability transitions. Together, they discuss the impact of Covid-19 as a landscape shock, its implications for directionality and rule change and its influence on politics … from Conversations on COVID-19: Consequences for the Second Deep Transition and the Sustainability Revolution