TIP Conference 2022: Transformative Innovation Policy Conference 2022 Online UK, January 17-21, 2022 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tipconference2022 |
Submission deadline | September 5, 2021 |
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 held digitally from 17-21 January 2022 with our ‘Call for Participation and Initiatives’ and contributing with low carbon emission conferencing. The theme of the Conference is "Building a sustainable knowledge infrastructure on Transformative Innovation Policy".
Why do we need innovation for transformative change?
We need to urgently accelerate the zero-in transformation to keep the planet viable for everyone. The global agenda, summoned in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), sets the ground for developing and contributing towards actionable knowledge. After decades of false starts in sustainability and attempts to mitigate the climate crisis by fitting incremental changes into unsustainable crucial systems such as food, energy, and mobility, it is imperative to move at full speed through a sustainability transition across all.
Linking global-change innovation with inter and transdisciplinary strategies requires experimental and inclusive platforms to engage policymakers, researchers, practitioners, investors and other key professionals. We open up an inclusive digital space to circulate knowledge and have a learning platform that balances the net impact on the climate from greenhouse emissions.
A conference that encourages and is based on experimentation with a “Call for Initiatives”.
The 2022 TIP Conference is part of an ongoing collaboration and network building process. The conference develops in building blocks with the dialogue kick-starting in workshops across other major conferences - the 2021 Eu-SPRI Conference, IST Conference and the Globelics conference as well as the TIPC learning events, to weave a thread of discussions through sessions and activities that pave the way to January 2022 with the TIP Conference as the finale event. The aim is to connect the community of diverse actors working on TIP and to mutually learn from each other by instigating debates on different designs, approaches, methodologies, management and implementation of TIP.
The TIP conference is designed as an open platform for networking, meeting, and developing ideas. This is why we are inviting a “Call for Initiatives” rather than a call for papers. The conference can also be a place to develop sets of ideas into experimental projects by providing a cross-sectoral and multi-actor experience.
We take full advantage of digital technology solutions to rethink, repurpose, and reinvent conferences to be inclusive and flexible gathering spaces, that contribute to more carbon, energy, and resource-efficient processes and industries. Local and regional encounters can also be part of the hybrid, and experimental formats will be included to always encouraging low-carbon emissions.
Who will attend?
The conference welcomes a wide range of stakeholders, such as:
- Early career and senior researchers and academics from different disciplines
- Practitioners and policymakers
- Industry practitioners from multiple sectors (mobility, food, water, finance, housing, etc)
- Development agencies
- Grassroot innovators and entrepreneurs
- NGOs
- Media
- Private investors
We strongly encourage participation from diverse actors including young people, those early in their career, and Global South participants.
What can be expected from the conference?
- Mobilising people, ideas, initiatives that contribute to an evolving action research agenda for Transformative Innovation Policy
- Experimental formats for the delivery of sessions
- An interactive setting that encourages networking and co-creation
- Low environmental impact and inclusive digital settings
- An inclusive and balanced mix of participants who share an equal voice in the conference activities
What we expect from the participants
- Lively participation in the engagements
- Openness to transdisciplinary settings
- Active listening and commitment
- Ideas and contributions to accelerate sustainability transitions and transformative pathways
Call for Initiatives
We are inviting you to submit a project, initiative, experiment, idea relevant to systemic transformation, including but not restricted to the following themes:
- Conceptualisation of innovation for transformative change: Interpretations and contextual use of essential TIP elements, and other approaches to innovation for systems transformation.
- Role of experimentation for transformative change: Evidence of framing, defining and performing socio-technical experimentation taking into account inclusivity, challenge-led, practise-based, adaptation to uncertainty, or other related aspects from practical engagements.
- From experimentation to mainstreaming and embedding: For transformations to happen, the experiences from experiments need to spread and be taken up in further contexts other than the original. These processes of mainstreaming and embedding happen through a variety of mechanisms in need of further exploration (i.e. replication-adaptation, scaling, institutional framing).
- The role of landscape events on transformative change: Rapid external shocks, such as a pandemic (e.g. COVID-19), as triggers for expanding breakthrough niche innovations and pressure creators on existing regimes to open them up.
- Policy and governance for transformative change: Reflexive governance strategies for experiments framing such as anticipatory framings (i.e. reflexive debates on performativity, normativity, expectations), experiments portfolios, alternative futures, scaling-up experiments towards flexible stability, and also the role of framework setting to unleash generalisation processes beyond experimentation.
- Transformative actors for transformative change: Role of governments and ministries, business and private entrepreneurs, social movements, and civil organisations triggering or hindering unsustainable and unequal socio-technical regimes.
- Geography of transformation pathways: Context-specific realities call for different approaches and understandings of space and scale. Acknowledgement of differential needs for the Global North and Global South. Methodologies, designs, tools aimed at reflexivity and learning for transformation.
- Evaluation for TIPs: Approaches towards formative processes of learning and network building beyond accountability.
- Knowledge infrastructure for transformation: Design, implementation, evaluation of platforms to develop TIP research knowledge and practice; meaning and operationalisation of knowledge infrastructures for transformation.
Format of sessions and contributions
The format of the contributions is flexible and we welcome suggestions by the participants for experimentation with different formats of engagement for learning and interaction.
We invite sessions that may include:
- Panels
- Short pitches followed by Q & A
- Demonstrations
- Collaborative exercises
- Experimental workshops
- Blog or Vlog production
- Interviews and making podcasts
- Other formats as suggested by participants
Collaborative contributions: Following the co-creation spirit that TIPC and Eu-SPRI embrace, colleagues are invited to contribute as a team of stakeholders working on or being involved in the same project. For example, a hub composed by a group of researchers and policymakers; a team of a non-governmental organisation representative and a project manager or any other combination as appropriate.
Key dates
ACTION |
DATE |
Expression of Interest opens |
18 June 2021 |
Expression of Interest deadline |
20 August 2021 |
Notification of acceptance |
30 September 2021 |
Registration fee and process
There is no registration fee for the TIP Conference.
A link to register for the Conference will be announced via the Conference website and also on social media.
Key Contacts
Conference e-mail: TIPC@sussex.ac.uk
Christina Miariti: C.Miariti@sussex.ac.uk
Diana Velasco: dcvelmal@ingenio.upv.es
The TIP Conference 2022 is organised and funded by the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and the European Forum for Studies of Policies for Research and Innovation (Eu-SPRI) with the participation of Globelics and Africalics members and with the involvement of STRN members