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Countdown to 2019 Conference: Keynote Speaker Announced

2 October 2019 | Geraldine Bloomfield

With a month to go until the third annual TIP Conference and Engagement Week 2019, TIPC are delighted to announce that taking centre stage for the keynote is the CEO of TIPC partner, Climate-KIC, Dr Kirsten Dunlop. The opening talk, which...

New Programme Director Joins TIPC

9 September 2019 | Geraldine Bloomfield

The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) has a new Programme Director joining the team. Victoria Shaw begins her role at TIPC, alongside Sarah Schepers, as Programme Director for the Consortium. She is based at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU)...

Mobilising the Transformative Power of the Research System to turn the Sustainable Development Goals into a New Reality

4 October 2019 | Matias Ramirez, Geraldine Bloomfield

In 2015 under the auspices of the United Nations, 193 countries officially adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This represented a commitment to work towards key targets encompassing the environment, the economy and social sustainability. If adopted in full,...

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Transforming Experimentation: Experimental Policy Engagements and Their Transformative Outcomes

31 July 2019 | Johan Schot, Jonas Torrens, Paula Kivimaa

This research report examines the various practices, rationales and approaches associated with policy experimentation followed by a proposal of how experimentation can apply to advancing Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) for Transformative Change. This document integrates and builds on...

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Towards a Framework for Transformative Innovation Policy Evaluation

31 July 2019 | Alejandra Boni, Jordi Molas-Gallart, Sandro Giachi

The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) brings together global actors to explore the future of innovation policy – its foundation, formulation and governance. The Consortium’s key objective is to examine and expand on current policy approaches to assist...

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TIP Africa Hub: Second Transnational workshop takes place in Senegal

24 July 2019 | Rebecca Kerr

On the 18th and 19th July 2019, the second transnational workshop of the TIP Africa Exploratory Hub took place in Dakar, Senegal, hosted by the Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) & the University of Dakar. After spending...

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Join the TIPC Team

10 July 2019 | Rebecca Kerr

Please note these roles are now closed. For more job opportunities, please follow TIPC on Twitter or sign up to the monthly newsletter, the TIPC Digital Digest, below. Applications were invited for two job openings related to the work of the Transformative...

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Towards a Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Research Agenda

18 June 2019 | Bipashyee Ghosh

The need to align the capacities of societies to innovate with grand challenges they face, is increasingly recognized in various levels of research and policymaking. Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) proposes an approach to address these grand challenges through...

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Call for Participation in the TIPC Conference 2019 Concluded

10 June 2019 | Bipashyee Ghosh

The call for participation in the TIPC conference has now closed. Please read the call below for details. The programme for the conference will be released shortly. “Over the past year, there has been a continuous dialogue between members of four...

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Extinction Rebellion, Greta Thunberg, and the school strike: the case to include social movements in science, technology and innovation policymaking

30 May 2019 | Rebecca Kerr

As London sizzled in an unexpected Easter heatwave, climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the hundreds of people who had taken to the streets as part of the Extinction Rebellion protest. For ten days, protesters blockaded parts of London demanding that...

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TIP in Action: TIPC deliver first Transformative Innovation Learning Journey

28 May 2019

TIPC organised its first Transformative Innovation Learning Journey in May at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School, UK to begin implementing TIP in Action in the TIPC member countries. Over three days participants...

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Harnessing innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals – UNCTAD’s National Framework

22 May 2019 | Johan Schot

Addressing the Sustainable Development Goals requires a radical transformation of current innovation systems. To this end, UNCTAD has published a new framework for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Reviews (STIPs) that introduces the concept of Transformative Innovation Policy. TIPC Academic...

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Sustainable Europe 2030: A TIP Perspective

16 May 2019 | Johan Schot

This is a think piece written by Professor Johan Schot for the European Commission Conference “Sustainable Europe 2030: From goals to delivery” on April 8 2019 in Brussels The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set out in the United...

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Senegal’s Virtual University, a Case Study on Transformative Innovation Policy

10 May 2019 | Blanche Ting, Chux Daniels

May 2019 Mamadou Diallo, Jacob Dasylva, Fatou Cissé, Mamadou Sy, Marie Blanche Ting, Chux Daniels, Joseph Saturnin Diémé Through a competitive selection process, Senegal has been chosen alongside Ghana and Kenya to participate in the pilot phase of the Transformative...

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