Johan Schot

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 report – produced by Christina Miariti, Programme Director at TIPC, and founder of TIPC, Professor Johan Schot TIPC – examines how a Knowledge Infrastructure for TIP can be fostered and sustained across geographical areas, actors and disciplines.   … from TIP Knowledge Infrastructure Report

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 video records a conversation between Johan Schot and Tine de Moor on the construction of commons and the role of commons in fostering social movements and collective action.   In pre-modern times commons or citizen collectives were an important mode of governance, in which groups of people collectively managed and used a collective resource, … from Power to the people? The role of citizen collectives in fighting climate change

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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

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

This infographic poster, produced for the 2019 Transformative Innovation Policy Conference, demonstrates the partnership between the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), the University of Sussex, and the African Centre for Technology Studies in Kenya. It started in mid 2019 and has unfolded over an initial period of five years. Taking centre stage in global debates, the … from TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION, THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TRILATERAL RESEARCH CHAIR

In this Leonardo da Vinci Medal address, Johan Schot argues that the imagination – specifically, the historical imagination – is crucially important for actors in the world confronting the next Deep Transition – the coordinated change of many sociotechnical systems in a similar direction. Johan explains how the historical imagination reveals path-dependencies which shape who … from Confronting the Second Deep Transition through the historical imagination

This paper analyses the Brazilian research system using the tools of bibliometric analysis to conclude that profound changes are necessary to re-orient the direction of research to meet social needs expressed in the SDGs and to move towards a more environmentally sustainable and socially just future. … from The Contribution of the Brazilian Research System to the Sustainable Development Goals

This is a brief guide for policymakers and practitioners to the background involved in the Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) process and approach. It focuses on the understanding a mapping of the ‘Three Frames of Innovation.’ TIP is ‘third frame thing.’ Discover more with this guide.   … from GUIDE TO the THREE FRAMES OF INNOVATION

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

Highly complex and uncertain environments require experimentation and a different approach to evaluation.  This paper makes the case for a ‘formative evaluataion’ approach and explores the implications of following this approach for the skills, attitudes and values needed by those inovlved in the evaluation process. This article presents our approach to the evaluation of transformative … from Evaluating transformative innovation policy. Insights from two experimental policies

This blog is an edited extract from an article exploring TIPC experiences of implementing formative evaluation, highlighting the skills, attitudes and values required from evaluators to strengthen trust, participatory engagement and a learning mindset in experiments.    Between 2019 and 2021, TIPC worked with partners to develop a formative approach to the evaluation of Transformative … from Reflexive practice in Transformative Innovation Policy: Six lessons for action researchers

This in-depth article presents the TIPC approach to the evaluation of transformative innovation policies and practical experience of implementing this: in work on food policy with Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Vinnova), and in the ACT on NBS (Adaptive Cities through Nature Based Solutions) project. To be consistent with the principles and objectives of these policies, an … from Evaluating transformative innovation policy: Insights from two experimental policies

Presentation providing a practical and comprehensive overview of the methodology for formative evaluation with transformative outcomes, addressing the aims and purpose, the role of learning in sustainability transitions and evaluation, and second order learning, before walking through a six-step methodology. The authors introduce the steps that participants of a project, initiative or policy can take, … from Methodology for formative evaluation with 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 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 is a foundational text for the TIP evaluation process, termed ‘Formative Evaluation’. Transformative Innovation Policies (TIPs) assert that addressing the key challenges currently facing our societies requires profound changes in current socio-technical systems. To leverage such ‘socio-technical transitions’ calls for a different, broad mix of research and innovation policies, with particular attention being paid … from A FORMATIVE APPROACH TO THE EVALUATION OF TRANSFORMATIVE INNOVATION POLICIES

This practical planning document was developed during the pilot phase of TIPC to help researchers and practitioners from Africa (and other TIPC regions) to prepare to develop the transformative learning history. A learning history is an example of what is called in transition studies a second order learning process, helping us to consider how to … from Transformative Innovation Learning Histories methodology: Principles and practical details

This brief introduces the value of a shared vocabulary for participants with different experience and prior understandings working together on experimentation, drawing on the experiences of TIPC members during the pilot phase of the Consortium. It provides a glossary of fundamental vocabulary with examples, along with application of the vocabulary to experimentation and the case … from Introducing vocabulary for TIP experimentation (case study research)

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)

Worldwide, countries have to respond to local and global socio-technological shifts and needs, specifically the transformations wrought by a rapidly shifting understanding of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Science, technology and innovation policy (STI) finds itself at the intersection of these local and global challenges. Innovation Policy at the Intersection: Global Debates and Local Experiences shows that a … from Innovation policy at the intersection: Global debates and local experiences (Chapter 2: Transformative Innovation Policy: Insights from Colombia, Finland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden)

This table is an extract from a 2019 TIPC research report, which examines the practices, rationales and approaches associated with policy experimentation for transformative change. The extracts summarises five modes of experimentation identified by TIPC: policy design; instruments and processes; experimental spaces; supporting, connecting and evaluating societal experiments; and experimental governance culture. It can help … from Extract: Modes of experimental policy engagement

This presentation highlights the diverse experimental cultures emerging in different contexts, drawing on a survey of TIPC members and in-depth interviews that took place in August and September 2018. It highlights common themes for experimental approaches, examples from Colombia, Finland, Norway, Mexico, South Africa and Sweden, and common issues, helping us to reflect on the … from TIPC experimentation: Member country experiences

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?

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

This article discusses empirical findings and conceptual elaborations of the last 10 years in strategic niche management research (SNM). The SNM approach suggests that sustainable innovation journeys can be facilitated by creating technological niches, i.e. protected spaces that allow the experimentation with the co-evolution of technology, user practices, and regulatory structures. The assumption was that … from Strategic niche management and sustainable innovation journeys: theory, findings, research agenda, and policy

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

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 

This research report examines the various practices, rationales and approaches associated with policy experimentation followed by a proposal of how experimentation can apply to advancing Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) for Transformative Change. This document integrates and builds on an earlier version that outlined different types of Experimental Policy Engagements (EPEs) but adds to that a … from Transforming experimentation: Experimental policy engagements and their transformative outcomes