Diana Velasco

Biography

Diana is an anthropologist and a systems engineer. She also holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Edinburgh. Interdisciplinary research and practice has been a constant in her career. With a background in innovation studies, she has worked in the design and implementation of strategies and policies for research, social projection and teaching in universities. She has been director of research and innovation in Universidad del Rosario, Colombia; and Provost in Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia. Her main research areas are innovation studies, STI policies design, higher education management, and development studies. She is currently a Research Fellow in Ingenio, working in the development of formative evaluation for different experimental policy engagements developed with varying members of TIPC.

Role in TIPC: Research Fellow at Ingenio CSIC-UPV

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TIPC Conference 2022 Sessions

Opening of the TIP Conference

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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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POLICY BRIEFING: TIPC transformative learning history

Publications

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...

Publications

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

An analysis of Vinnova’s mission to transform the Swedish Food...

Blog

15 March 2022

With the TIPC Vinnova experiment coming to a close after two years of collaboration, the TIPC team has conducted a concluding analysis to uncover to what extent the objectives and desired outcomes of the project have been reached, which challenges...

Transforming Sweden’s Food System

Blog

10 February 2022

Sweden’s Innovation Agency Vinnova and the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium have embarked on a joint journey to transform the Swedish food system, consolidating Vinnova’s role as a change agent in system transformation and responding to societal and environmental challenges as...

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

Publications

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...

Publications

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

TIP Conference 2022

Publications

17 June 2021 | Diana Velasco, Christina Miariti, Johan Schot and Matthias Weber

“Building a sustainable knowledge infrastructure on Transformative Innovation Policy” The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI) invite you to join the 2022 TIP Conference, to be...

Conference & Workshop Reports

Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) Conference, 17-21 January 2022

Experiment

TIP Conference 2022: “Building a Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructure on Transformative Innovation Policy” The Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI) held the 2022 TIP Conference, on 17-21 January 2022. The theme of the...

Shared Agendas Exploratory Project

Project

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,...