Shapers of the future: Why partner with the Deep Transitions Lab?

Short blog on how the Deep Transitions Lab is bridging science and practice – including the creation of frameworks, metrics and tools, and support for an emerging global knowledge of transformative investors – along with the rationale for becoming a partner.

The Deep Transitions Lab is grounded in the cutting-edge theory of Deep Transitions, an academic framework that explains how large-scale societal changes unfolded in the past and may develop in the future.

Insight into these patterns and change mechanisms helps to redirect crucial drivers of change into a sustainable direction. By leveraging the insights of the Deep Transitions framework, we aim to enable and accelerate systems change.

What we do: Bridging science and practice

We’re building a repository of frameworks, metrics and associated tools required to make Transformative Investment actionable and applicable in the investment sector.

We create and disseminate knowledge that is useful to the investment sector at large. The Lab will build a network of first movers in the industry, working with public policy makers and private investors to create momentum for a paradigm shift.

We’re developing practical experience, exemplary user cases and methods of operation for financing profound systemic change and providing a springboard for replication.

Our programme for learning and capacity-building caters to the current investment landscape and ensures reciprocal flows of information between the Global North and Global South, as well as between generations, through a community-engaged learning programme with students around the world.

Why partner with the Lab?

Get access to tools, support and assessment frameworks for you to effectively pursue a strategy that moves your portfolio towards achieving systems change.

Build an investment portfolio that’s geared towards the long-term – dealing with the shocks and uncertainties expected to unfold because of climate change and social tensions.

Potentially uncover (and even create) complementary investments that enhance the transformative potential of a portfolio, as well as identify new investment opportunities.

For impact investors, the findings of the Lab can make impact strategies more effective and can be used to describe, measure and communicate the transformative potential of these investments.