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Section 3: Managing experiments and adjusting for context

Managing TIP experiments involves a commitment to generating and disseminating knowledge acquired through experimentation; and to empowering those involved in experiments to be agents, rather than subjects, of change.  Section 3 shares tools, methods and learnings from TIPC members, universities and Hubs from implementing experiments in collaboration with diverse partners in Sweden, South Africa and Latin America. It also goes behind the scenes at the TIP experimental conference to share the mechanisms guided by the theory of change.

Implementing the experiment

These resources introduce methodologies and tools for experimentation, sharing learnings from Europe, Latin America and Africa that reflect the diversity of the experimental process and provide insight into practical considerations for implementation of EPEs.

Overview: Designing and evaluating missions for healthy living in Sweden

This blog describes an action research experiment between TIPC and Sweden’s national innovation agency, Vinnova, to advance sustainable food systems and develop organisational capability for mission-orientated innovation policy. For more on this experiment and its contribution to the Nordic learning hub, visit Vinnova resources.   Meeting societal goals for health and wellbeing requires not only … from Overview: Designing and evaluating missions for healthy living in Sweden

Overview: Rethinking collaborative water governance in South Africa

This blog provides a summary of an experiment funded by a TIPC member, the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation in South Africa. It describes how the Living Catchments Project was used to test Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) approaches to water governance. For original material from the collaboration, browse all Living Catchments project resources. Water … from Overview: Rethinking collaborative water governance in South Africa

Overview: TIPC, RIS3CAT 2030 and Shared Agendas in Catalonia

This blog provides a summary of how Catalonia’s Smart Specialisation Strategy (RIS3CAT 2030) is being implemented through ‘Shared Agendas’, a collaborative approach influenced by Transformative Innovation Policy. The initiative brings together government, universities, businesses, and civil society to address major societal challenges – such as climate change, inequality, ageing populations, and sustainable economic development – … from Overview: TIPC, RIS3CAT 2030 and Shared Agendas in Catalonia

Overview of TIPC and Vinnova Experimental Policy Engagement

This presentation summarises the experiment undertaken by Vinnova in partnership with TIPC, which sought to understand and explain how a transition towards more sustainable practices can be achieved, using the food area as a pilot. The slides introduce the aims and objectives for the experimentation, followed by the methodology (formative evaluation with a focus on … from Overview of TIPC and Vinnova Experimental Policy Engagement

Vinnova opening workshop: Ethnographic report

This ethnographic report documents a three-day workshop held between TIPC and Vinnova, the Swedish innovation agency, in 2020. It describes observations from training sessions and collaborative workshops, in which participants explored how Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) concepts could be applied to mission-oriented innovation programmes, highlighting the conceptual challenges and learning processes as the team started … from Vinnova opening workshop: Ethnographic report

Workshop report: Stretching the food area transformative strategies

This report documents the discussions and outcomes of a collaborative workshop with Vinnova, in which participants unpacked transformative strategies for the food system. The engagement brought together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to reflect on how innovation policies and programmes can address the complex social, environmental, and economic changes requires to transform food systems. Insights include … from Workshop report: Stretching the food area transformative strategies

Workshop report: TIP value to strategic innovation programs

This reports describes a workshop in 2022, in which TIPC and Vinnova teams – together with strategic partners such as the Swedish Energy Agency, Technopolis, the Government Offices, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas), and the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis – explored how Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) can support the design … from Workshop report: TIP value to strategic innovation programs

Implementing the Living Catchments experiment

These slides provide a snapshot of the process of implementing the Living Catchments experiment, addressing the context, actions, aim, stakeholders and set up, reflections and perspectives of practitioners. It illustrates the importance of an experimental mindset to managing an experiment – one that takes interventions as provisional – and how the experience helped the team … from Implementing the Living Catchments experiment

HUB methodologies and tools for experimentation

This translated extract from a comprehensive HUB handbook gives insight into modes of experimentation and, associated with these, some of the methodologies in Transformative Innovation Policy that support experimental processes. The extract goes deeper into three experimentation methodologies – Strategic Niche Management (SNM); Transformation Labs (or T-Labs); and Future Scenario Analysis through Backcasting- and introduces … from HUB methodologies and tools for experimentation

Metodologías y Herramientas del HUB para experimentación (versión en Español)

Este extracto proveniente de uno de los recursos del HUB ofrece una visión sobre los modos de experimentación y, asociados a estos, algunas de las metodologías de la Política de Innovación Transformativa que apoyan los procesos experimentales. El aparte profundiza en tres metodologías de experimentación -la Gestión Estratégica de Nichos (SNM por sus siglas en … from Metodologías y Herramientas del HUB para experimentación (versión en Español)

Tool: Fishing for barriers

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

The Living Catchments project: A pilot experimental engagement in South Africa

This set of resources documents how practitioners and researchers in South Africa undertook experimentation to explore transformative approaches to water governance. They provide lessons that inform policy learning for sustainability transitions in both the Global South and North.

Overview: Rethinking collaborative water governance in South Africa

This blog provides a summary of an experiment funded by a TIPC member, the Department for Science, Technology and Innovation in South Africa. It describes how the Living Catchments Project was used to test Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) approaches to water governance. For original material from the collaboration, browse all Living Catchments project resources. Water … from Overview: Rethinking collaborative water governance in South Africa

Introduction to the TIP EPE: Ecological water and sanitation experiment in South Africa

This blog/news piece gives a topline introduction to the South African TIP experiment involving the country’s Water Research Council and the SANBI, the South Africa National Biodiversity Institute. The project was identified and  selected by TIPC member, the South Africa Department for Science & Technology to integrate the TIP methodology into this Living Catchments Water … from Introduction to the TIP EPE: Ecological water and sanitation experiment in South Africa

The Living Catchments Project: Information sheet

This resource gives a detailed snapshot of the South Africa project chosen as a TIP Experimental Policy Engagement. … from The Living Catchments Project: Information sheet

Observations and reflections on the Living Catchments experiment (workshop 1)

These observations were gleaned from a workshop involving actors and partners in the TIP Experimental Policy Engagement, the Living Catchments Water and Sanitation project.   … from Observations and reflections on the Living Catchments experiment (workshop 1)

Project Report for TIP Experimental Policy Engagements: Living Catchments, South Africa

This report provides an overview of the process and analysis of the learning associated with the TIP Experimental Policy engagement in TIPC member country, South Africa.   … from Project Report for TIP Experimental Policy Engagements: Living Catchments, South Africa

The Role of Transformative Innovation for SDGs Localisation. Insights from the South-African ‘Living Catchments Project’

The 2030 Agenda positioned Science, Technology and Innovation as crucial means for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper explores how a localised South-African policy experiment named the “Living Catchments Project” (LC Project) contributes towards the SDGs. This project is part of a portfolio of experiments to trigger innovation for transformative change in South … from The Role of Transformative Innovation for SDGs Localisation. Insights from the South-African ‘Living Catchments Project’

Designing an experimental conference

In 2022, TIPC set out to create an experimental conference, in response to the recognition that conventional conference spaces may be insufficient for transdisciplinary knowledge creation and exchange. This collection of resource shows how this experiment was managed, introducing how the conference committee sought to create a space for alternative knowledge practices and the theory of change that guided the design, implementation and evaluation of the conference.

Slides: Experimenting with the TIP conference

These slides accompany the video on experimentation at the conference, setting out the need to go beyond traditional conferences, what we mean by experimentation in this context, and the experimental methodology. The slides also show the transformative theory of change for the event and the monitoring, evaluation and learning plan. … from Slides: Experimenting with the TIP conference

Experimentation and evaluation at the TIP conference

Can a conference be delivered as a transformative experiment? This thought-provoking recording sets out the work of the experimentation committee for the TIP conference in 2022, introducing why the choice was made to experiment with the conference and how this was done. The presentation shares the transformative theory of change and monitoring, evaluation and learning … from Experimentation and evaluation at the TIP conference

Conference theory of change

The conference theory of change illustrates how the experimentation committee sought to design, execute and evaluate the conference as a transformative experiment. It shows the activities, assumptions, outputs, transformative outcome and long-term goals behind building a sustainable and inclusive knowledge infrastructure for systemic transformation pathways.     … from Conference theory of change

Extract: Experimentation committee report for the TIP Conference

This extract reflects on the conference theory of change, desired impact, and the outcomes, outputs and activities adopted for the conference. The remainder of the report focuses on the monitoring, evaluation and learning plan, results and conclusions, and is introduced in Component 3 of the Resource Lab. … from Extract: Experimentation committee report for the TIP Conference

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