Geraldine Bloomfield

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 gives an introduction to the TIPC member country Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Vinnova’s TIP experiment which resulted in a new approach to projects in funding call to lead towards Transformative Outcomes.   … from TIP Experiment on Food & Health Systems with Vinnova, Sweden

This experiment, initiated by TIPC member innovation agency – the South Africa Department for Science & Innovation,  integrated TIP theory into an existing project to develop its Transformative Theory of Change (TToC) to take the project towards transformative outcomes. This case study gives an overview of the context. partners and approach. … from TIP Experiment for Ecological Water Security & Provision in South Africa

An introduction to the Nordic fireside chat series, a collection of video voice recordings between policymakers and researchers from Norway, Sweden and Finland explaining the motivation for the chats and identifying some of the key topics discussed.   Throughout history people have sat by the fire and created meaning. They’ve established stories; deepened relationships; and … from At the Nordic fireside: Conversations on co-creation between researchers and policymakers

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

A video voice recording of a conversation between a Finnish policymaker and a TIPC researcher on how ideas about co-creation are employed in the Finnish context.   … from The Finnish Fireside: Heli Karljalainen and Paula Kivimaa

This video is a voice recording of a fireside chat between a Vinnova analyst and a TIPC researcher offering personal reflections on the frustrations and achievements in constructing a collaborative relationship.   … from The Swedish Fireside: Josefin Lundström and Diana Velasco

A video voice recording of a discussion between an advisor to the Norwegian Research Council, a Norwegian research and journalist and a member of the TIPC research team about the enabling conditions for reflexivity and the tensions between power and second order learning.   … from The Norwegian Fireside: Elisabeth Gulbrandsen, Per Koch and Carla Alvial Palavicino

This blog illustrates the relationship between Transformative Innovation Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines how science, technology and innovation policy, if transformed, can work towards transforming the world towards meeting the aims encapsulated in the SDGs.   … from Transform Innovation Policy: Transform Our World? STI as a Game-changer for the SDGs

Need to understand the basics behind TIP theory? Know your niches from your regimes? This guide gives you an overview to begin your TIP journey to transformation and system change with the key concepts involved.   … from A TOP-LINE GUIDE TO SUSTAINABILITY TRANSITIONS

This research brief distils and consolidates the learning from the pilot year of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC). Activities in this period included country reviews, case studies in each of the five member countries, and two synthesis workshops. Together, these activities provided insight into the diverse expressions of Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) already taking … from Developing a Shared Understanding of Transformative Innovation Policy (Produced with contributions from TIPC members and SPRU TIPC Team)

During the pilot year, TIPC members co-created a criteria of six principles, which represented steps towards achieving Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). During each country’s exploratory phase, members undertook a Transformative Innovation Learning History (TILH), and as part of this process, analysed the extent to which these six principles were present in the experiments identified. Although … from Extract: Six guiding principles for TIP experimentation

This selected news/blog piece gives an overview of the approach, taken at a two day workshop by the TIP Africa Hub in 2019, in selecting their countries’ projects to apply a TIP lens across. This piece shows the perspective of the participants involved and outlines briefly the three projects that were chosen to give an … from An OVERVIEW: TIP AFRICA HUB ADVANCES UNDERSTANDING OF TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE AS CASE STUDIES CHOSEN

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

The graphical representation of the Living catchments Theory of Change in South Africa explains the connections between impacts for SDG 6, activities, outputs and transformative outcomes. … from Graphic representation of the Living Catchments Transformative Theory of Change

“It was like a roller-coaster in a thunderstorm! Once… familiarity grew, it was easier to talk about concepts. I found the practitioner-academic dynamic so fascinating. I’m so grateful for this experience.” Evaluation comes at the end, right? Along with the learning? And the outcomes of the project? Not with the TIPC methodology and approach. It … from Blog 3: Monitoring, evaluation and learning from a Transformative Innovation Policy test project

In this second blog in our South Africa water experiment series, we put under the spotlight the transformative outcomes, the compass at the centre of the TIPC methodology, to examine the interaction at the ‘live’ theory-practice interface. How did the project team feel about the concept of the TOs? How did the theory play within … from BLOG 2: The Transformative Outcomes: Does the Theory Stick?

This is the first in series of three blogs with practitioners working on the Living Catchments experiment in South Africa, which was developed as a TIP experiment by the Africa Hub. The blog sees the team reflects on their views and feelings on the integration and overlaying of the TIPC methodology within this national project … from BLOG 1: How did that go? Reflections from the South Africa experiment on the TIPC methodology

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 

The 2017 conference “Prospects for Transformative Innovation” was the inaugural conference of the Consortium. This event was the finale to our pilot programme of activities for Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium’s founding members. We started to test ideas and rationales; built strong, productive relationships; and most crucially, begun to identify the directions to go and the … from 2017 TIP Conference Report