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Totally radical: From transformative research to transformative innovation

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The National Science Board and the US Congress want more federal research to be transformative research. Until now, discussion of what this really means has mostly focused on research, per se, and has not addressed innovation as a complex system. ‘Transformation’ describes changes in society and the economy, not merely changes in science and technology. It entails connections among individuals, institutions, and between research, development, and nascent applications. Serious efforts to transform are totally radical: they span the totality of the innovative process to produce actually radical outcomes, rather than maintain potentially radical activities. Transformative innovation is specifically organized to realize concrete visions of change beyond the research community. Programs that seek to do this cannot rely upon faith in serendipity, but must be strategic. They cannot avoid politics, but must embrace it. Being totally radical about innovation means creating the social conditions within which new technologies can thrive.

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  • Avery Sen, 2014. "Totally radical: From transformative research to transformative innovation," Science and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 41(3), pages 344-358.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:scippl:v:41:y:2014:i:3:p:344-358.
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    1. Calderini, Mario & Fia, Magali & Gerli, Francesco, 2023. "Organizing for transformative innovation policies: The role of social enterprises. Theoretical insights and evidence from Italy," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 52(7).
    2. Michael Max Bühler & Pia Hollenbach & Alexander Michalski & Sonja Meyer & Emanuel Birle & Rebecca Off & Christina Lang & Wolfram Schmidt & Roberto Cudmani & Oliver Fritz & Guido Baltes & Geraldine Kor, 2023. "The Industrialisation of Sustainable Construction: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Large-Scale Introduction of Compacted Mineral Mixtures (CMMs) into Building Construction," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-25, July.

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