In this Open Learning Series session, Rob Byrne and Manuel Laranja provide an introduction to the foundational transitions principles addressed by the Pentagonal map tool and explore how the tool has been used in Sustainability Finance teaching with course participants from within and outside of the finance sector.
The Pentagonal map is a systems mapping tool developed by TIPC to help identify the actors, resources and rules within a system, in order to surface a dominant socio-technical ‘regime’.
Along with participants from the TIP knowledge community, presenters discuss what we mean by system dimensions and and regimes and how might we use these concepts to rethink change in the finance sector.
Acknowledgements
Manuel Laranja has a DPhil from SPRU at the University of Sussex, UK. He was Director of the National Innovation Agency in Portugal and worked for more than 10 years as an innovation policy advisor at the Prime Minister’s Office and at the Ministry of Economy in Portugal. He is currently Associate Professor for Management and Policies for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at ISEG. Manuel is also a participant in TIPC’s Network of Coaches for the TIP Resource Lab, and has tested and shaped the tools in the Lab.
Rob Byrne is Senior Lecturer at SPRU and Sussex lead for the Trilateral Chair, a TIPC-related programme of research on transformative innovation, the fourth industrial revolution and sustainable development, working with partners in Kenya and South Africa. Rob’s work draws on a range of academic approaches including, amongst others, transitions theory, innovation systems, political economy and science and technology studies.
Citation
Laranja, M. D. M. M., & Byrne, R. (2023). Financing sustainability transitions: Lessons from system mapping exercises (Video). TIP Resource Lab. Available at https://tipresourcelab.net/resource/financing-sustainability-transitions-lessons-from-system-mapping-exercises/
