Alejandra Boni

Biography

Alejandra Boni is professor at Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) and deputy director of Ingenio (CSIC-UPV). She is honorary professor at the University of the Free State in South Africa. Her research interest focus on human development, higher education, global citizenship and transformative innovation. She is leading the formative evaluation component of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium.

Role in TIPC: TIPC Formative Evaluation Lead

University Profile: http://www.ingenio.upv.es/en/Alejandra-Boni-Aristizabal

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandra-sandra-boni-a3226427/

https://twitter.com/sandraboni4

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BSzsUEMAAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alejandra_Aristizabal

TIPC Conference 2022 Sessions

Transformative Innovation Policy for Newcomers & Recap

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Contrasting transformative experiments through variegated representations of space

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Participatory video as a methodology to strengthen collective trasnformation for local communities

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How knowledge can contribute to transformation pathways? A participatory space to reflect on the role of knowledge organizations

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TIPC POLICY BRIEF: Formative Evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policy – The Key Principles

Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is an emerging form for understanding and practicing innovation policy. It aims to mobilise innovation to tackle grand societal and environmental challenges as encapsulated in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). TIP is an experimental approach that...

POLICY BRIEFING: TIPC transformative learning history

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28 April 2023 | Paloma Bernal Hernandez, Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco and Geraldine Bloomfield

This briefing is a snapshot of insights for policymakers and practitioners engaged in Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) action and experimentation. These are the main takeaways compiled from the 2023 learning history report. The report’s aims are to: • Give insights...

Minding the gap between policymakers and researchers: The TIPC transformative...

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28 March 2023 | Paloma Bernal Hernandez, Alejandra Boni and Diana Velasco

The year 2016 was the beginning of an exciting transformative journey for practitioners in the national science, technology and innovation agencies in Colombia, Finland, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. These institutions were the funders and partners of the...

Conference & Workshop Reports Training on TIP

MOTION HANDBOOK: DEVELOPING A TRANSFORMATIVE THEORY OF CHANGE

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30 December 2021

This handbook draft comprises the results and key learnings of the MOTION project. It contributes to accelerating a transition towards sustainability by providing a guide for the development of a Transformative Theory of Change, a methodology that helps...

TIP Learning Guides

Science, Technology, and Higher Education – Governance Approaches on Social...

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8 November 2021 | Diana Velasco, Alejandra Boni and Salim Chalella

Innovation, in a general sense, can be understood as the ability of people and organisations to develop a new or significantly improved product (good or service), process or method to achieve a desired effect (material or social) that...

Book chapter

The Role of Transformative Innovation for SDGs Localisation. Insights from...

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12 October 2021 | Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco and Mahlodi Tau

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....

Journal Articles

A formative approach to the evaluation of Transformative Innovation Policies

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10 August 2021 | Jordi Molas-Gallart, Alejandra Boni, Sandro Giachi and Johan Schot

Transformative Innovation Policies (TIPs) assert 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...

Journal Articles

Participatory methods and methodologies for a more just transition: Reflections...

Blog

28 June 2021

During the 2021 Eu-SPRI conference (1), Paula Kivimaa in her keynote speech highlighted the importance of including a social justice perspective in the design and implementation of transformative innovation policy. With this idea in mind, we convened the track titled...

SECOND-ORDER LEARNING FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: SECOND REPORT

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28 April 2021 | Paulina Terrazas and Alejandra Boni

Within the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) community, this research has explored how has COVID-19 contributed to Second-Order Learning (SOL) –understood as changes in beliefs, assumptions, points of view and behaviours– that is relevant for transformation. The first...

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Shared Agendas Exploratory Project

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28 October 2020

Shared Agendas is an exploratory project running from October-November 2020. A TIPC team from Ingenio will lead a series of workshops aiming to implement transformative shared agendas into the framework of RIS3CAT 2021-2027. The main objective of the workshop cycle,...

Alejandra Boni

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