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📚 Systems Innovation Discussion Paper, Nesta - This paper explores the potential of systemic innovation to help tackle some of the key challenges of the United Kingdom faces, from supporting an ageing population to tackling unemployment. The two essays presented intend to open the discussion and debate of Systems Innovation. The first paper by Geoff Mulgan addresses questions on what it means to truly transform a system, while the second paper by Charlie Leadbeater argues the need to move from seeing innovation as products to focusing on innovation with entire systems.

📚System-shifting design: An emerging practice explored, Design Council & The Point People - This report is the result of wider conversations with designers about designing systemically, what the practice is, how designers need to work, and how the design system needs to change to achieve this potential.

🎙️Reimagine Podcast, Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship - This podcast dives deep into big problems like pandemics, climate change, the higher education crisis. It ask questions like "How did we get here? Why are we stuck?". Then meets with social entrepreneurs who see things differently and are giving the system a shake.

📚Systems innovation papers, Si Community - A collection of papers to help you on your journey into the world of Systems Innovation.

📚Green Paper on System Innovation, Charles Leadbeater and Jennie Winhall, Systems Innovation Initiative - Innovation experts Charlie Leadbeater and Jennie Winhall set out a series of frameworks to help people take the first steps in creating the kinds of systems we need to meet shared, public challenges.

🎙️Step into System Innovation: A festival of ideas and insights, Systems Innovation Initiative - This 6 session festival brought together some of the boldest social innovators from around the world and dived into the work of transforming systems to tackle deep social challenges.

📚From sectoral systems of innovation to socio-technical systems: Insights about dynamics and change from sociology and institutional theory, Frank W. Geels - This article provides academic contributions to the approach of 'sectoral systems of innovation' in order to analyze long-term dynamics, shifts from one socio-technical system to another and the co-evolution of technology and society.

💡Getting From Crisis to Systems Change: Advice for Leaders in the Time of COVID, Catalyst 2030 - This initiative outlines the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable populations and the underlying systemic inequities that led to more dire consequences than was necessary. It then makes recommendations couched in systems change and innovation for responding to the issues COVID caused at a systemic level.

📋 Playbook for systemic innovation: mindsets and methods for transformation, Halogen - This playbook is a practical guide that will help you take on systemic challenges. The framework is meant for organizations that acknowledge ecosystems and are open to evolve together with other organizations based on a common purpose.

📚From Simple Fixes to Systemic Enablers: The Future of Digital Development, Ben Ramalingam, Becky Faith, Kevin Hernandez, Pedro Prieto Martin and Tony Roberts - This paper outlines key lessons from four recent IDS Evidence Reports on the state of digital development and draws out the implications for policymakers and practitioners working in development and humanitarian organisations.

💡Re-Institute - This website outlines systems change methodologies to support people-driven change across the world.

📋 MOTION handbook. Developing a transformative theory of change, Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) and Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges - This handbook aims to help accelerate a transition towards sustainability by providing a guide for the development of a Transformative Theory of Change, and a methodology that helps projects, programmes, and organisations design, implement, and evaluate interventions that contribute to systems transformation.

📋 Transformative Project Design, GIZ - This guide does five things: 1) defines transformations; 2) describes existing approaches to environmental and climate finance in international cooperation; 3) explains derivation of quality criteria for transformative interventions; 4) offers guidance on how to coordinate the many big decisions and programs involved in transformational change, and; 5) reviews design indicators and outcome indicators.

📰 Pivoting to strategic innovation: 3 things we learned along the way, UNDP Innovation - This article explores how UNDP Innovation went through the process of trying to shift from projectization to horizontal systems change.

📚The role of intermediary actors in transformative change, EIT Climate-KIC - This report explores the role of intermediaries in systemic change and what roles intermediaries must take on to push transformative change.

📚The Power to Shift a System - Four Keys: Power, Charles Leadbeater and Jennie Winhall, Systems Innovation Initiative - This paper introduces the four keys to unlock system innovation: purpose and power, relationships and resource flows.

🎙️System Innovation on Purpose, Systems Innovation Initiative - In this webinar Charles Leadbeater and Jennie Winhall, from the Systems Innovation Initiative, share a new, practical framework for how to shift a system’s purpose.

📚System Innovation on Purpose, Charles Leadbeater and Jennie Winhall, Systems Innovation Initiative - This essay is about the role that purpose plays in orchestrating complex systems and how system innovators can create a new system around a new sense of purpose.

📚 Guidance on Developing Assumptions, Center for Evaluation Innovation - This four-page guidance on generating assumptions defines assumptions, explains why it is critical to articulate them, and then offers a set of prompting questions to help elicit them.

📰 Mastering the art of hard problems (and avoiding the rush to easy solutions), Outside International - This blog discusses how innovation needs to invest in a deeper understanding of problems by looking back at the specific root causes. By making this fundamental shift, we see the problem as a symptom of underlying system issues and see the whole challenge to imagine a better, more impactful solution.

📰 Designing for Transformation Toolkit, Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank - This toolkit guides project and program leaders in the practice of designing investments more likely to deliver transformational change (TrC)-strategic interventions that accelerate or shift development trajectories towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient future.

📰 The ‘system of innovation’ approach, and its relevance to developing countries, Eva Dantas - This article aims to provide the key features and contributions of systems innovation, as well as discuss the application of the innovation system approach to LMIC countries

🎙️Transforming food systems and combating climate change: A virtual event post-COP26 and beyond, UN Food Systems - Following the COP26 summit to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) Secretariat hosted this virtual event to underscore the inextricable link between climate and food, building on the outcomes of both the UNFSS and COP26, and to look into next year’s COP27.

🎙️Webinar: Investing in System Innovation, Systems Innovation Initiative, Si Network - A webinar that explores how investors are deploying funds to help shift entire systems.

📚Working paper – Shifting norms and values for transitions to net zero, EIT Climate-KIC - This working paper by EIT Climate-KIC, a Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), makes the case that deep and rapid decarbonisation needed to achieve net zero will likely require systemic changes framed and driven by government policies and investments.

💡EAT Initiatives, EAT - EAT is the science-based global platform for food system transformation. Browse EAT's different initiatives, programs and partnerships currently in place or under development that focus on business, individual countries, cities, chefs, and children.

🎥 Circular Economy Toolkit - A video series toolkit that includes Systems Innovation overview, systems thinking, systems change, and systems building, within the context of circular economies.

📚Transformational Change Guiding Questions, Climate Investment Funds - This guide provides a set of questions for thinking through the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions focused on advancing transformational change in climate action.

📚 Designing missions: mission oriented innovation in Sweden-a practice guide by Vinnova - This playbook describes how Vinnova devised and tested an approach to mission-oriented innovation, and includes both short technical guides to practice as well as critical reflection on the nature of the work. It provides an account of the work done and reflections on what the work was about in terms of theory and practice. This is in the spirit of sharing legible practice—enabling discussion and critique, learning and adaptation.

📋 States of Change Resource Library - This is a resource library with a variety of Systems Innovation toolkits and frameworks.