Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC)

Bridging the Gap: Using experimentation to unlock skills and talent The innovation gap isn’t about ideas – it’s about access to skills and talent, and evidence on what works to unlock their innovative potential. Discover what IGL learned from testing real-world…

Using experimentation to unlock skills and talent www.innovationgrowthlab.org/blog/bridgin...

From miners to markets: discursive struggle in Romania’s coal phase-out We examine the rapid and transnationally influenced coal phase-out in Romania’s Jiu Valley during the 1990s, with a focus on how macro-political agendas reshaped public discourse around coal and co...

📑Our paper with B. Turnheim on the discursive work in phase-out is finally out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social ! We explore the construction of directionality in a post-socialist case, and discuss how sustainability transitions can be exclusionary and unjust
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DIFJ9...

YouTube video by Digital Defence Ecosystem EP4 Climate & Energy Security as Defence Infrastructure | What’s New in New Defence Podcast

It was great to join @valtterivuorisalo.bsky.social for a Digital Defence Ecosystem podcast! Check it out if you're interested in #energysecurity #climatesecurity and links between #defence and #sustainability.

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Four transformative innovation projects have been selected in Panama under the SENACYT – Inter-American Development Bank Transformative Innovation funding call and are now moving into implementation to tackle systemic development challenges. ✨

🔗 Learn more here: tipconsortium.net/news/four-tr...

Join us on 17 February from 14:00–15:00 GMT for the next OLS session to explore how Transformative Innovation Policy (#TIP) can help tackle youth involvement in organised crime.

Register here: tipconsortium.net/event/tackli...

#OpenLearningSeries #CrimePrevention #SystemsChange

YouTube video by Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium Seeds of the Future: Creating Pathways to a Better World | 22 Jan 2026

Missed our latest Open Learning Series session?

🎥 The recording of “Seeds of the Future: Creating Pathways to a Better World” is now live. Explore a future-oriented game for navigating uncertainty, shocks, and system change.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdHU...

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Can an interactive game help us make sense of complex #sustainability transitions?

Join Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC)'s Open Learning Series tomorrow to explore Seeds of the Future, a game exploring transition complexities and pathways.

Register: https://tinyurl.com/2hxjm42d

✨ TIPC members and partners came together at the University of Sussex for a strategic dialogue on reimagining collaboration in a turbulent world.

The dialogue explored the complex global challenges now shaping Transformative Innovation Policy.

🔗Learn more: tipconsortium.net/news/reimagi...

Open Access UCL Research: Transformative Innovation Policy: An Analytical Review of Key Methods and Challenges discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

What happens when transformative innovation policy meets organizational realities? Organization theory can help address some key gaps of scholarship on transformative innovation policy while opening new directions for policymaking and research in this area.

Navigating Opportunity Spaces: A Practitioner's Guide to Linking Climate Adaptation and Place-Based Transformative Innovation Policy: Matti Cristian; Zacharewicz Thomas; Barsotti Valentina; Haegeman Karel Herman

🔋 Can precincts lead the way to net-zero cities?

The Zero Precincts project by Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) uses TIPC’s Transformative Outcomes approach to co-create inclusive, urban decarbonisation pathways.

📎Read more: tipconsortium.net/news/net-zer...

#NetZero #Innovation

The Netherlands exports €129B in agrifood yearly—but at the cost of biodiversity, water, and health. An X-curve study maps 4 pathways for change. Progress is stagnating—no phase-out of harmful practices, limited support for innovation. Read more: drift.eur.nl/en/publicati...

✨ TIPC members and partners came together at the University of Sussex for a strategic dialogue on reimagining collaboration in a turbulent world.

The dialogue explored the complex global challenges now shaping Transformative Innovation Policy.

🔗Learn more: tipconsortium.net/news/reimagi...

📢 Science Forum South Africa 2025

Side event: Reimagining STI Policy through Engaged Policy Experimentation (EPE) — exploring new approaches to designing and implementing STI policy.

🗓 24 November 2025

📍 CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria

🔗 tipconsortium.net/event/scienc...

The Deep Transitions Lab is exploring how the future of finance can be reshaped through long-term, systemic change.

A recent workshop examined the historical roots of today’s financial system and what it means for future change.

Read more 👉 www.transformativeinvestment.net/blog/changin...

How can cancer control systems in Colombia become more effective through integrating the experiences of patients, caregivers, families, and healthcare teams?

📄 A new policy brief from the HUBLAYCTIP & INC reveals new pathways for transformative cancer control.

🔗 tipconsortium.net/news/new-pol...

On June 9, 2026 in Valencia: Join Early career event!

How can Studies of Policies for Research & Innovation contribute to grand challenges?

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This is a reminder to please submit your proposal using the following link (www.conftool.com/euspri2026/) by 28 November 2025 at the latest.

We are looking forward to receiving your proposal! Feel free to email us at euspri2026@conftool.com if you require any assistance.

🇵🇪 Ex-President Francisco Sagasti joined policymakers, academics, and international experts to connect #Innovation, security and sustainability at Peru’s #STI workshop.

A step toward transformative, inclusive policy. 🌱

🔗 Learn more here: tipconsortium.net/news/peru-ho...

#SciencePolicy #Peru

📘 New publication from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Discover how 100+ countries and cities are pursuing a new approach to development on the ground. Case studies include Bosnia’s green transition & Venezuela’s community resilience.

🔗 Read here: www.undp.org/sites/g/file...

Propose a session track or special session for #IST26 in Zürich (31 Aug–2 Sep 2026)!

Help us create an engaging, inclusive, and meaningful programme around the theme “Hope – in challenging times and sustainability transitions.”

🔗 Link to full call: www.transitionsnetwork.org/call-for-ses...

YouTube video by UNDP Innovation UNGA 2025 Side Event: Unlocking Systemic Impact: A Roundtable on Systems Finance

At UNGA Side Event 2025, leaders explored systems-based finance with real-world examples from Zambia, Eastern Europe, Catalonia, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and C3 Labs.

🔗 Watch the full session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIyS...

#UNGA2025 #SystemsFinance #SDGs

🔋 Can precincts lead the way to net-zero cities?

The Zero Precincts project by Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI) uses TIPC’s Transformative Outcomes approach to co-create inclusive, urban decarbonisation pathways.

📎Read more: tipconsortium.net/news/net-zer...

#NetZero #Innovation

The #TRIPEuHub is growing!

Welcome University of Vaasa & City of Vaasa 🇫🇮

Together, they’re tackling one of today’s biggest challenges: how to rapid regional growth with sustainable energy and urban development. 🌱⚡

Read more: tipconsortium.net/news/trip-eu...

#TransformativeInnovation

Join the 2025 SIRI Symposium in Gothenburg this October!

On 8 October, come together for a day of dialogue and exchange. This year’s theme is Design and Implementation of Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP).

👉 Register here: tipconsortium.net/event/swedis...

#SIRISymposium #Innovation

New publication from #TIAH:

🌍Global climate R&D funding is skewed — UK, EU, and US dominate, while Africa and other regions lag behind. Critical areas like industrial decarbonisation and social sciences remain underfunded.

Read the policy brief here: tipconsortium.net/news/new-pub...

#Funding

New policy brief from TIAH calls for action on sustainable transport in African cities.

Electric, automated, and shared mobility can unlock cleaner, smarter, and more inclusive urban transport. 💡

📖 Read full brief here: tipconsortium.net/news/new-pol...

#SustainableTransport #Africa #TIAH

Modernizing Development: Portfolios are here!

Dynamic, adaptive interventions tackling #complex challenges—financing transitions, fostering learning, and enabling #transformation

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#innovation #systems

Accelerating climate action in unfavourable local contexts: the role of policy entrepreneurship npj Climate Action - Accelerating climate action in unfavourable local contexts: the role of policy entrepreneurship

How do ambitious climate policies take shape in local authorities operating in relatively unfavourable, resource-constrained contexts? Check out this article by @alfiegaffney.bsky.social @climateuea.bsky.social @nature.com rdcu.be/eu8GU