Programme / Spanning the Boundaries between Policymakers and Researchers: A Transformative Innovation Policy Approach

This session brings together policymakers, project implementers and practitioners and academics to grapple jointly on the value and use of a new way of thinking about and supporting innovation in the South African context over the past four years - Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP).  TIP proposes an approach to support innovation that addresses our complex societal and environmental challenges. It presents possible policy solutions that are guided by experimentation, and more participatory, bottom-up approaches to policy making. At the core of TIP are processes of co-learning and co-creation between teams of academics, policy makers and practitioners.  The session aims to not only present these ideas but also to enact the process of spanning the boundaries between policy practitioners and researchers. Therefore, this session will unpack the complexities and practicalities of the policy-research nexus from the lens of the application and value of TIP ideas in the South African policy space.

The session will consist of the following four segments:

• Critical appropriating transformative innovation policy (TIP) in South Africa
• Spanning the boundaries between policy actors and researchers
• Spanning the boundaries between researchers and policy actors
• Spanning the policy-research nexus: how can transformative innovation policy models contribute to more effective policy making?

Registration link: 

https://tinyurl.com/2u2unfj9