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Experimenting with game-based learning for a playful understanding of systemic...

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23 May 2022 | Bipashyee Ghosh, Imogen Wade, Andrea Padilla Cuevas and Vasilis Gkogkidis

Games are a known source of entertainment, especially for children. But games can also be effective learning tools for adults, especially in interdisciplinary education and policy spaces. In this paper, we argue that game-based learning can help the...

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Pandemics as an opportunity for learning? A study of second-order...

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4 November 2020 | Jozsi Scholten, Charlotte Huijskens and Veronique Dörr

Are pandemics opportunities for learning? The outbreak of COVID-19 has been an enormous disruption to our health systems, economies and ways of living. It has raised important questions about the need to transform our underlying principles and structures...

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Alcances Transformadores: Evaluación y Reorientación de la Experimentación con la...

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10 July 2020 | Bipashyee Ghosh, Paula Kivimaa, Matias Ramirez, Johan Schot and Jonas Torrens

La inminente emergencia climática, los compromisos asumidos en el acuerdo de París y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS) de la Agenda 2030 de las Naciones Unidas exigen transformaciones significativas en las economías y sociedades actuales. Los organismos...

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Transformative Outcomes: Assessing and Reorienting Experimentation with Transformative Innovation Policy

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10 July 2020 | Bipashyee Ghosh, Paula Kivimaa, Matias Ramirez, Johan Schot and Jonas Torrens

The impending climate emergency, the commitments made in the Paris agreement and the UN Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demand significant transformations in the present economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies and scholars have been exploring...

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A Formative Approach to the Evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policy

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1 July 2020 | Jordi Molas-Gallart, Alejandra Boni, Johan Schot and Sandro Giachi

Transformative Innovation Policies (TIPs) propose that addressing the key challenges currently facing our societies requires profound changes in current socio-technical systems. To leverage such ‘socio-technical transitions’ calls for a different, broad mix of research and innovation policies, with...

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SPRU Working Paper Series – Mobilizing the Transformative Power of...

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4 December 2019 | Matias Ramirez, Oscar Romero, Johan Schot and Felber Arroyave

This paper addresses the important question of how national research systems can support the implementation of the United Nations 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) set out in the 2030 agenda. Much attention on this topic has so far...

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Developing and Enacting Transformative Innovation Policy: A Comparative Study

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16 May 2017 | Joanna Chataway, Chux Daniels, Laur Kanger, Matias Ramirez, Johan Schot and Ed Steinmueller

The contemporary world is confronted with a number of grand social and environmental challenges such as social inequality and climate change. Traditional innovation policies, focused on the provision of R&D funding, building innovation systems and promoting entrepreneurialism, are...

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Searching new alternative for development: National Systems of Innovation and...

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16 March 2017 | Judith Sutz, Rodrigo Arocena and

The most pressing problem for Humankind – if it keeps avoiding a nuclear holocaust – is to manage the increasing contradiction between production and sustainability that has opened the possibility of a climate holocaust. Such contradiction and the...

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Agenda 2030 and a Transformative Innovation Policy: Conceptualizing and Experimenting...

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23 February 2017 | Nannan Lundin and Sylvia Schwaag Serger

Increasingly urgent societal challenges are changing the demands on innovation policy. At the same time, and partially as a result, the theoretical approach to innovation policy is shifting from a predominantly market or system failure rationale to a...

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