The TIPPING Guide helps islands and regional actors understand how innovation governance actually works in practice. It makes it easier to assess current strengths and weaknesses, compare today’s situation with a desired future, and identify where new energy, collaboration, and project capacity are needed. In that sense, the guide is valuable because it turns abstract transition ambitions into a structured conversation about what is really happening on the ground.
The guide is especially useful for public authorities, island coordinators, regional development teams, students, researchers, NGOs, and business partners who want to work together on transition challenges. It is relevant both for small islands, where a few people often cover many roles, and for larger regional networks that need a shared language for governance, experimentation, and implementation.
The TIPPING Guide is used to assess and discuss local and regional innovation governance through a structured set of dimensions, questions, and comparison points. It supports benchmarking, reflection, and vision-building, and helps groups identify what kind of engagement-oriented programme or action plan is needed next.
TIPPING can be used as a standalone creative workshop tool, but it can also be used in the second phase of the Rudder process. In that role it helps sharpen discovery, define the challenge more clearly, and create a stronger base for project design and later proposal development. See also: The RUDDER Method.
Because of this flexibility, the guide works both as a diagnostic instrument and as a collaborative design tool: it helps actors move from discussion to shared direction, and from shared direction to more concrete transition projects.