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ETIN's Vision and Purpose
The UN-ECE Transformative Innovation Network (ETIN) is a UNECE-coordinated strategic platform and meeting place for peer learning and a joint exploration of policies and practices for transformative innovation. Through evidence-based analyses and shared national and international experiences, ETIN aims to create additional value to its affiliated members in their effort to promote innovative processes in the UNECE region, ultimately increasing competitiveness and accelerating a societal transformation in line with Agenda 2030.
ETIN’s Principal Objective
Insight – examining past experiences and present development to better understand existing challenges and opportunities in the transformative innovation sphere . ETIN activities under this objective include discussions regarding the history of transformative innovation, evaluation and assessment of previous and ongoing developments, as well as the identificition of opportunities and challenges.
Foresight – applying future looking, horizon scanning methods to anticipate and determine future potential trends and opportunities for transformative innovation. The ETIN activities under this objective will use the information gathered through insight 250pxexercises to attempt to predict what future potential avenues for transformative changes to socio-technical systems.
Consultation – leveraging the experience of peers and partners in order to build on the experience made elsewhere and bring the progress towards transformation forward. Activities under this objective will focus on gathering insights and input from a wide variety of stakeholders, both public and private, that are engaged in and/or impact transformative innovation.
Collaboration – ensuring the cross-fertilisation and spillover effects between ongoing transformative innovation initiatives, in order to combine efforts and ensure synergies and complementarities between these. Activities under this objective will focus on bringing together stakeholders that typically do not have access to or who are unaware of potential partnerships in the field of transformative innovation.
Co-creation – providing the opportunity for transformative innovation stakeholders to come together to discuss and pursue new ideas, projects and related initiatives that facilitate innovation-led transformation towards the SDGs and Agenda 2030. Activities under this objective provides the opportunity for stakeholders to pool resources, leverage knowledge transfer and exchange and come up with new and relevant activities and formats that maximise the impact of transformative innovation initiatives.
ETIN’s function - and its strategic tools
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The ETIN Model
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Focus areas - ETIN work themes
Transformative innovation presents two elements that complement and add to more established ways of working with innovation. One concerns the policies and measures needed to develop adaptive and responsive ecosystems – involving citizens, addressees, clients, and users – that is ready to absorb and create synergies between different innovations. Another is to create supporting processes for strategic learning that support the beforementioned ecosystem development. Based on this, ETIN organizes various meetings, events and other research and capacity building activities around two broader work themes:
- Assessing and strengthening the adaptive and responsive ecosystem development supporting transformative innovation.
- Strategic learning as a means to integrate innovation, experimentation and learning for transformative innovation, incorporating and considering past, present and future trends and developments.
Under each of these work themes, ETIN is creating and developing dedicated workstreams, each led by its own task force, that look at specific elements and sub-topics of the respective work theme. Already established workstreams, include
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ETIN activities
Each work stream engages in a a range of (joint) events, meetings, research and capacity building activities, and podcast episodes of UNECE’s Innovation Circle and Innovation Matters Podcast on different topics.