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Section 2: Defining an experiment

Section 2 introduces the principles for experimentation, along with types of experiments and considerations in terms of actors, experimental scope and feasibility. Extracts and resources from the hubs in Africa and Latin America show how experiments were defined differently in each local context, and how they interacted with multiple system dimensions to achieve transformative impact.

Principles for experimentation in Transformative Innovation Policy

TIPC developed some guiding principles for experimentation in Transformative Innovation Policy in its pilot phase. Here, we introduce those principles and the vocabulary used to describe them, showing how they were applied to case study selection in Latin America and Africa. The TIP radar tool helps us to link these principles to a real project, programme or policy to assess its transformative potential.

Tool: Transformative Innovation Policy Radar

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

Extract: Six guiding principles for TIP experimentation

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

HUB guiding questions for selecting experiments (English version)

This simple questionnaire tool was developed by the Latin American and Caribbean HUB of Transformative Innovation Policy to provide its members with key questions that can help in the selection of experiments with transformative potential, and also in framing of these through a TIP lens. It reveals how experimentation as a method can open up … from HUB guiding questions for selecting experiments (English version)

PREGUNTAS GUIA PARA LA SELECCIÓN DE EXPERIMENTOS (VERSION EN ESPANOL)

Esta herramienta básica  tipo cuestionario fue desarrollada por el Hub Latinoamericano y Caribeño de Política de Innovación Transformativa para ofrecer a sus miembros una lista de preguntas clave que pudieran ayudar a la selección de experimentos con potencial transformativo, dándoles también un enfoque a través del lente PIT. Revela como la experimentación como método puede … from PREGUNTAS GUIA PARA LA SELECCIÓN DE EXPERIMENTOS (VERSION EN ESPANOL)

Introducing vocabulary for TIP experimentation (case study research)

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)

Selecting experiments: Insights from the Africa Hub

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

TIP Africa Hub experiments (pilot cases)

An overview of experimentation in three TIP Africa Hub countries – Kenya, Ghana, Senegal – which, in 2019, embarked on the pilot methodology for examining and analysing projects in their science and innovation systems that aligned with the TIP principles. Their case studies reveal the kinds of programmes and projects that can engage with the TIP methodology with transformative outcomes, and show how and why these initiatives were defined as TIP experimental engagements.

Transformative Innovation Learning Histories methodology: Principles and practical details

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

‘Fit and conform’ vs ‘stretch and transform’: Snapshot of Africa Hub experiments

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

An OVERVIEW: TIP AFRICA HUB ADVANCES UNDERSTANDING OF TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE AS CASE STUDIES CHOSEN

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

CASE STUDY ABSTRACT: Assessing the potential for Transformative Innovation Policy in Kenya

This abstract highlighted here gives details of the process for defining and then analysing a project from the Kenyan system that was identified as having transformative potential and could be approached through a TIP lens. This case study abstract takes the final part which analyses Frame 3 (TIP) within the Kenyan context for transformative potential. … from CASE STUDY ABSTRACT: Assessing the potential for Transformative Innovation Policy in Kenya

REPORT: Nomadic education in Kenya: A case study of mobile schools in Samburu County as a Transformative Innovation Policy

(DOWNLOAD LINK BROKEN)     This report details the study and analysis of the Kenyan TIP case that acted as the context-specific project for looking at experimentation into transformative change using the ‘niche’ initiative of mobile education for nomadic people. It looks at how it challenged the received wisdom of schooling to be innovative and … from REPORT: Nomadic education in Kenya: A case study of mobile schools in Samburu County as a Transformative Innovation Policy

Poster: Nomadic education in Kenya: A case study of mobile schools in Samburu County as a Transformative Innovation Policy

(Pending authors, dates)   This gives a poster overview of the case study done in Kenya to explore and experiment with transformative potential. The report provided in the resource collection give wider and further details so please also refer to this for a more in-depth examination. … from Poster: Nomadic education in Kenya: A case study of mobile schools in Samburu County as a Transformative Innovation Policy

Transformation Innovation Learning History of Ghana’s E-Waste Management System

Ghana’s participation in the Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Africa Exploratory Hub (i.e. TIP Africa pilot) focus on e-waste management system in Ghana. The TIP Africa Hub is a policy research project under the auspices of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC). TIPC is a multi-country initiative on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy aimed at … from Transformation Innovation Learning History of Ghana’s E-Waste Management System

POSTER: Transformative Innovation Policy research on e-waste management in Ghana

This poster, on the transformative potential of Ghana’s case study on e-waste, outlines its transformative potential and provides an example of applying a TIP lens to projects for experimentation into TIP within specific contexts.   … from POSTER: Transformative Innovation Policy research on e-waste management in Ghana

REPORT: Developing a Transformative Innovation Policy approach: The case of Senegal

This case study, part of the three TIP pilot mapping projects completed as part of the TIP Africa Hub work, outlines the Senegalese context for the three frames of innovation – central to the TIP theory and application. The report discusses and maps Senegal’s innovation system to examine each framing. The report concludes by analysing … from REPORT: Developing a Transformative Innovation Policy approach: The case of Senegal

Poster: Transformative Innovation Learning History – ICTS and Higher Education: The case of the Université Virtuelle du Sénégal

This poser, first presented at the TIP Conference in 2019,  gives an overview of the project chosen as the TIP experimental case study to look at transformative potential and change within the Senegalese context from a Frame 2 perspective. There is an accompanying report which can also be found in this resource collection. It was … from Poster: Transformative Innovation Learning History – ICTS and Higher Education: The case of the Université Virtuelle du Sénégal

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