Victoria Shaw

This simple tool is designed to support group learning and reflection in Transformative Innovation Policy and sustainability transitions initiatives. The tool is based on the idea that documenting significant moments, decisions, and turning points can help identify patterns of change and lessons for future action. It encourages us to reflect on who we are in … from Tool: Histories of change

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

Investments and policy decisions can be made more effective by connecting to the transition dynamics of a particular place. From skills to infrastructures, identities to aspirations and culture – the characteristics and conditions of an organisational or geographical context may help or hinder progress towards systems transformation. At the same time, scaling requires that we … from Tool: Opportunity spaces – Unlocking learning from place-based challenges through Transformative Outcomes

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

Systems optimisation can generate short-term positive effects. However, in the long run it may inhibit scaling, by preserving the unsustainable configuration of a dominant regime, and reinforcing the underlying rules. So how do we know if well-intended interventions are optimising or challenging a system? This is a simple tool to help you unpack your own … from Tool: Systems optimisation vs change

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)

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 for Transformative Innovation Policy

As governments are tasked with delivering transformative change across interconnected systems, an integrated and evolutionary approach is needed, often calling for intermediaries. In 2021, TIPC and One Team Gov developed an experimental learning session to explore the conditions that give rise to collaboration and change within government. This work helps to facilitate learning and collaboration … from Capabilities for building bridges across government

This blog by Victoria Shaw reflects on personal experience of trying to create a more relational space for reflection and learning at the TIP conference, exploring the tensions in embedding this approach and the benefits of doing so for the knowledge system.   In 2022, we experimented with a daily session dedicated to live ‘reflection … from What happens when we try to create a relational learning space at a conference?

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

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 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

Reflexivity has emerged as a key capability for strengthening trust, participatory engagement and a learning mindset in TIP experiments. But 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

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 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

In this edited workshop recording, Jordi Molas-Gallart and Sandra Boni present a ‘formative’ approach to the evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies that is operational and adaptable to different contexts. Together, they introduce the core principles of formative evaluation, practical experiences of implementing this approach within the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium membership, and allude to the … from Open Learning Series: A formative approach to the evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies

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

The online version of the ‘Pentagonal map for system analysis’ tool was tested in June 2022, with a 90-minute session that formed part of an extended learning workshop with the TIP knowledge community. Around 25 people took part using Zoom from multiple regions, supported by one facilitator and one digital coordinator. Most of the participants … from Snapshot of experience: Testing the pentagonal map tool

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 document provides guidance for lead facilitators to work with the methodology developed by UNESCO Futures Literacy and tested by TIPC’s Nordic members in 2021. It explains how users can deliver a Lab online, using the accompanying Miro tool, which provides a canvas for a four-part workshop series.   … from Guidance for facilitators: Futures Literacy Lab

The reflective tool helps us to develop and describe a perspective of the problem that we seek to address with our experimental initiative at three different levels: the global context of the problem (landscape); the broad and stable networks, strongly aligned around the activities of their actors (sociotechnical regime); and the alternatives that have arisen … from Tool: Systemic perspective on a change initiative

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

Vicky Shaw and Ed Steinmueller of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium consider the need to rethink business-as-usual and experiment with new ways of working.   Learning and co-creation are the foundation for TIPC’s work on research, experimentation and evaluation. The consortium has invested in resources and methods to help align participants’ expectations and understanding over … from What does COVID-19 mean for policy learning and co-creation?

Blog outlining discussions between research network leaders, policy makers and national agencies on opportunities for collaboration around a shared Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) research agenda aligned with societal and environmental goals. Valencia, 2019: A dinner hosted by TIPC and INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) and co-funded by EU-SPRI, brought together research networks leads, policy makers and national agencies … from Developing an agenda for Transformative Innovation Policy: Mobilising of networks towards transformative goals