Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 2022

Abstract

[EN] Tackling social and environmental challenges requires communities that can create, integrate, use, and contextualise diverse knowledges. The Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) seeks to respond to these challenges through collective action enabled by experimental and inclusive approaches. This paper focuses on examining the kind of knowledges, structures and practices required to build a knowledge infrastructure (KI) for TIP, taking the TIP Conference 2022 as a case study. The conference aimed at building a sustainable and inclusive KI for systemic transformation pathways, providing the basis for a TIP KI framework. The framework includes tangible and intangible infrastructures that support broadening and deepening networks, learning, unlearning, and aligning visions. These are the constituent elements to build communities of practice that can integrate knowledge towards transformation pathways. Furthermore, the paper explores how conferences can contribute towards transdisciplinary and action-oriented research as part of their developing strategies.