Abstract
The growing call for public policy to begin addressing more robustly the challenges posed by
sustainability transitions puts the onus on researchers to study how new meta-frameworks of
transformative innovation policy and accompanying practices are implemented, applied, and
received when they travel across different geographies. We discuss this question by tracing debates
with reference to geography of sustainability transitions, policy mobility and actor network
literatures. A methodological approach to analyse a cross-country policy initiative is developed
and examined through three experiments of transformative innovation policy in diverse policy
organisations with different missions and in contrasting geographical and professional spaces.
The discussion highlights the relevance of building what we call mutable fluid spaces between
academics and policy makers and its importance for transferring transformative innovation policy
across geographical spaces.