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Matias Ramirez

Biography

Matias Ramirez is Senior Lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School where TIPC was founded. He coordinates the work of TIPC in Latin America. This includes the partnership with Colciencias and the writing of the Green Book policy document in Colombia in 2018 and the work on mapping the sustainable development goals of the national research system of Mexico funded by CONACYT. In 2020 he helped to create Latin America Hub of TIPC involving organisations from Colombia, Chile and Mexico. Much of his current research activity is related to transformative innovation policy in Latin America, including studies of social movements, development of SDG indicators for transformative change and spatial dimensions of transitions.
Role in TIPC: TIPC Principle Investigator, Latin America Hub Lead
University Profile: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/213810
https://twitter.com/MatiasRamirez50

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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(Re)defining Experimentation in the Global South
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Featured

Confronting COVID-19 and Meeting the SDGS: A Proposal for Implementing the ‘Mision de Sabios’ Report in Colombia Using a TIP Approach

Guest Blog by Johan Schot and Matias Ramirez from the TIPC team, originally published on johanschot.com, to mark the release of the influential report. Professor Johan Schot and Dr Matias Ramirez emphasise the need for system change to confront the...
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Transformative outcomes: assessing and reorienting experimentation with transformative innovation policy

Publications
 10 August 2021 | Bipashyee Ghosh, Paula Kivimaa, Matias Ramirez, Johan Schot and Jonas Torrens
The impending climate emergency, the Paris agreement and Sustainable Development Goals demand significant transformations in economies and societies. Science funders, innovation agencies, and scholars have explored new rationales and processes for policymaking, such as transformative innovation policy (TIP)....
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Journal Articles

Fostering place-based coalitions between social movements and science for sustainable...

Publications
 10 September 2020 | Matias Ramirez, Javier Hernando Garcia Estevez, Oscar Romero and Claudia Obando Rodriguez
The objective of this paper is to contribute to an important debate concerning the interaction between place-based social movements and the science, technology and innovation system. Our central proposition is that place-based social movements can facilitate unique local...
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Journal Articles

LATIN AMERICA POLICY EXPERIMENTS

Experiment
Our experiments with a range of universities across Latin America are engaging in policy experiments tackling transformative processes in agriculture, waste management, cancer treatment and the role of education instead of fear based politics.   Our current projects within the...
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Transformative Outcomes: Assessing and Reorienting Experimentation with Transformative Innovation Policy

Publications
 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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Working Papers

Transformando Nuestro Mundo: Implementación de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible....

Policy Resources
 24 March 2020 | Johan Schot, Matias Ramirez, Felber Arroyave, Paloma Bernal Hernandez, Martha Liliana Marin, Oscar Romero and Carla Alvial Palavicino
Las Políticas de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (CTI) juegan un papel central para alcanzar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible (ODS). Colombia ha trabajado activamente en la implementación de la Agenda 2030, la cual representa los desafíos más urgentes...
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Policy Research Reports