Cristian Matti

Background: Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) encompasses a variety of policy frameworks that seek to use the potential of science, technology, and innovation to address societal challenges. To do so, it relies on inclusive co-creation processes for the design, implementation and evaluation programmes and policies that can drive systemic transformation towards sustainability. Aims and objectives: To … from Co-creation for Transformative Innovation Policy: an implementation case for projects structured as portfolio of knowledge services

This chapter, from Challenge Led System Mapping Handbook from the European institute of Technology’s Climate Innovation and Knowledge Community (EIT Climate KIC), forms part of the theoretical foundations for Component 5 on the Knowledge Community.   … from Challenge led System Mapping Handbook: Chapter 4 Knowledge Management

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 is a video voice recording of a conversation between a TIPC researcher and a practitioner from EIT Climate-KIC that reflects on the roles and skills needed to effectively engaged in co-creation of policy.   … from The European Fireside: Cristian Matti and Johan Schot

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 tool is an extract from the ‘Visual toolbox for system innovation’ – a resource book developed by EIT Climate-KIC to support capabilities in mapping, analysing and facilitating sustainability transitions. The visual story tool helps users to imagine and describe the ideal future that would happen as a consequence of succeeding in a project.  The … from Visual story tool

This tool is an extract from the ‘Visual toolbox for system innovation’ – a resource book developed by EIT Climate-KIC to support capabilities in mapping, analysing and facilitating sustainability transitions. The tool helps users to identify actions to improve the way a project performs within a particular system. It was designed to address two common … from Tool: Six systemic strengths

The COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, digital transformation, demographic changes and other global challenges are urging us to take profound yet agile policy action at all lev- els. The scale and complexity of the action needed make it essential that we perform this work while engaging with all relevant stakeholders. In this context, we see an … from Co-creation for policy: Participatory methodologies to structure multi-stakeholder policymaking processes

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 extract from the MOTION Handbook explains how transformative outcomes are a key ingredient in the transformative theory of change approach. It highlights how transformative outcomes reflect and make tangible the underlying ‘theory’ (the multi-level perspective), guiding us to think through the process of system transformation, and sets out how the 12 transformative outcomes help … from Transformative outcomes as a way to organise transformative portfolios

This is a short extract from the MOTION handbook, introducing the notion of formative evaluation, and how it was incorporated into the MOTION project through the theory of change approach, which was used as a focal point to incentivise learning and reflection among project partners. … from Formative evaluation as an opportunity and method for learning in a theory of change process

This tool, developed by the Transitions Hub at EIT Climate-KIC, is a useful aid to support implementation of Transformative Innovation Policy experiments.  It demonstrates how finding out the way to complete an experimental project calls for actors to identify the big barriers the project faces, and shows how these can be broken down into manageable … from Tool: Fishing for barriers

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

The X-Curve is a powerful tool for: Understanding systems: make transition dynamics understandable as a visual process with the two basic patterns of build-up and breakdown, their underlying dynamics and their potential interactions. Awareness and priority setting: introduce systemic change into broader societal processes. Develop and communicate a shared vision with selected sector partners and … from X-CURVE booklet. A sensemaking tool to foster collective narratives on system change

This extract from the MOTION handbook (pp. 48-51) presents the Theory of Change canvas tool and examples of applying the tool in two different projects.   … from Introduction to the Transformative Theory of Change (TToC) canvas tool and examples

This short extract from the MOTION handbook presents what a Theory of Change is and how this approach was used in the MOTION project.   … from What is a Theory of Change?

The idea of system innovation has been widely diffused in academia and business to refer to major transformation in national and regional economies through technological breakthroughs, reorganizations of industries and the implications of a globalised economy. In the field of climate change, this concept has been deeply applied through the study of socio-technical transition by … from Visual toolbox for system innovation

Public and private innovation organisations strive to contribute to tackling global challenges such as climate change and growing inequality. System change that drives a sustainability transformation has become a shared goal and innovation policy and actions play a key role in this process. However, transformations are long-term processes that require interventions at various levels and … from MOTION handbook

Short extract from Section 1 of the MOTION handbook, introducing the notion of transformative system change and the Multi-Level Perspective as a framework to understand it.   … from MOTION handbook extract: System change and the MLP