Alejandra Boni

Biographic Data

ID643958
NAMEAlejandra Boni
GIVEN NAMESAlejandra
FAMILY NAMEBoni
SIGNATUREBONI A
AFFILIATIONSUniversitat Politècnica de València
ORCID0000-0003-3945-4336
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS120
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Identifying the deep drivers of system change: A rule-based approach to socio-technical system mapping

    Open AccessLaur Kanger, Paul Johnstone et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2026

  • Supporting transformation in Smart Specialisation Strategies: The role of formative evaluation

    Open AccessAlejandra Boni, Míriam Acebillo‐baqué et al.ARTICLERegional Studies2026

    This article examines how formative evaluation (FE) can enhance the transformative capacity of Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) by supporting policy processes aligned with transformative innovation policy (TIP). Drawing on a longitudinal, participatory case study of S3 in Catalonia (2020–24), called RIS3CAT, we analyse FE’s influence across the policy cycle: agenda-setting, formulation, legitimation, implementation, monitoring and learning. T…

  • The ontological design of universities: Towards an aspirational decolonial, socio-ecological praxis

    Open AccessM Walker, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2026

    The essence of the university manifests in its ontological design, which determines future goals and shapes processes and practices across all dimensions of the institution. In this paper, we argue that ontological design matters for universities, for fundamentally transforming institutions, enabling aspirations for decolonisation, and driving a more meaningful contribution to addressing the climate and Nature emergency. Drawing on a study across…

  • Rethinking Innovation for a Post-growth Society

    Open AccessAviram Sharma, Andrea Jiminez et al.ARTICLEScience Technology and Society2025

    Innovations are conventionally conceptualised as one of the crucial driving factors fuelling the ‘growth machine’ of capitalism, whereas science and technology are the core of the innovations that facilitate the ‘endless’ economic growth. In the dominant economic paradigm, innovations became imperative for the survival of all forms of organisations—the creative force that brings economic dynamism and greater welfare for the broader common good. H…

  • A human capability approach to transformative innovation policy. Theoretical insights and practical implications for directionality

    Open AccessAlejandra Boni, Diana Velasco et al.ARTICLEJournal of Responsible Innovation2025

    Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is an emerging approach to science, technology, and innovation policy that addresses social and environmental challenges. While TIP literature highlights the importance of considering multiple innovation pathways, it often overlooks the injustices hindering them. This paper explores how the Capability Approach (CA) can enhance the analysis and practical considerations of directionality within the TIP. We beg…

  • Gaza and the Human Development Imperative

    Alejandra Boni Aristizábal, Alejandra BoniARTICLEJournal of Human Development2025

  • Sentipensar el territorio desde mujeres del Guainía (Colombia). Una aproximación desde la Antropología del Arte

    Open AccessMaria Leticia Aquino Chura, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLERevista Internacional de…2024

    Esta investigación refleja un proceso dialógico con las mujeres del Guainía (Colombia), con la intención de responder a la pregunta ¿Cómo se expresa el sentipensar del territorio desde las mujeres en las comunidades La Ceiba y Remanso? Para ello, se utiliza una aproximación metodológica desde la Antropología del Arte y técnicas como la documentación poética, etnografía dialógica, artística y el texto audiovisual. Como ejes teóricos están los Estu…

  • Building a knowledge infrastructure for Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP). An analytical approach based on the experimental TIP conference 2022

    Open AccessDiana Velasco, Bipashyee Ghosh et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2024

    Tackling social and environmental challenges requires communities that can create, integrate, use, and contextualise diverse knowledges. The Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) seeks to respond to these challenges through collective action enabled by experimental and inclusive approaches. This paper focuses on examining the kind of knowledges, structures and practices required to build a knowledge infrastructure (KI) for TIP, taking the TIP Co…

  • Halfway There, Long Way to Go: The Role of People’s Agency in the Final Years of the Sustainable Development Goals

    M N Asadullah, Ann Elizabeth Mitchell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2024References: 5

    As we mark the anniversary of the publication of the 2030 Agenda mid-term report, the world's nations stand at a crossroads. While off-track in achieving most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), multiple crises have further exposed deep inequalities and vulnerabilities in the current dominant approach centred on economic growth and resource allocations. In this editorial paper, scholars of the human development and capability association and ed…

  • How does transformative innovation policy travel across physical and cognitive spaces? Exploring the role of mutable fluid space in experimental policy engagements

    Open AccessMatias Ramirez, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Innovation and…2024References: 51

    EN] 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 mobil…

  • Perspectivas y políticas sobre la juventud desfavorecida en España un análisis desde el enfoque de capacidades

    Open AccessAndrés Hueso, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLERevista Española de Investigaciones…2024References: 2

    Con la crisis en España, la juventud se enfrenta a una situaciónmultidimensional de desventaja. En el artículo analizamos los puntos de vista de distintos actores sobre dicha situación, y cómo estas perspectivas se reflejan en el diseño e implementación de las políticas públicas. Realizamos un estudio cualitativo mediante una aproximación innovadora, el enfoque de capacidades, utilizando tanto revisión defuentes secundarias como entrevistas en pr…

  • Evaluación formativa y políticas regionales de innovación transformadoras. El caso de la Agenda Compartida del Bages

    Open AccessINGENIO, Alejandra Boni Aristizábal et al.ARTICLEEkonomiaz Revista Vasca de Economía2023

    Este artículo caracteriza la propuesta de evaluación formativa desarrollada en el marco del Consorcio de Políticas de Innovación Transformativa (TIPC) y su aplicación a un caso de política de innovación transformativa denominada Agendas Compartidas (Catalunya). Estas son ejemplos de acción colectiva organizada alrededor de un reto común de carácter social y ambiental. En particular, se aborda el caso de la Agenda Compartida en el sector de a salu…

  • Development in times of conflict: Ethical pathways towards peace and justice

    Alejandra Boni, M Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Ethics2023

    In July 2022 the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) held a conference on Development in times of conflict: ethical pathways towards peace and justice in Medellín, Colombia.Footnote1 The predominant but not sole focus was on Colombia, which has experienced decades-long armed conflicts that have torn at the social fabric, created distrust in the State and government, reduced the effectiveness of institutions and, altogether obstruc…

  • Enlarging the knowledge transfer realm through engagement with research stakeholders: A Conversation Attempt With Action Research

    Open AccessJoaquín M Azagra-Caro, Alejandra BoniARTICLETapuya Latin American Science…2023References: 43

    Many knowledge transfer studies analyze channels that carry knowledge from university to industry and society.Action research has become a method to produce and transfer scientific knowledge at the same time; however, knowledge transfer studies rarely employ action research, and action research has rarely addressed the topic of knowledge transfer.Hence, there have been few opportunities to reflect upon the boundaries between the object of knowled…

  • An Epistemological Break: Redefining Participatory Research in Capabilitarian Scholarship

    Carmen Martinez-Vargas, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2022

    In putting together this special issue of “Epistemological Break: Redefining participatory research in capabilitarian scholarship”, we wanted to push at the (decolonial) boundaries of participatory research. Our intention was not to make claims about a perfect version or understanding but rather to encourage a debate about participatory research, and how there is a variety of practices which may be more or less oriented to transformative educatio…

  • A Capabilitarian Participatory Paradigm: Methods, Methodologies and Cosmological Issues and Possibilities

    Carmen Martinez-Vargas, Melanie Walker et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2022

    Meaningful participation of people as agents in development practice has been a central concern in capabilitarian scholarship and of Amartya Sen's own work, as a valuable freedom and functioning in itself. Yet, there has been limited attention until now about knowledge generation processes and who is fully included, despite a growing body of literature arguing for pluriversality and decolonial approaches against historical and geographical inequa…

  • Capabilities for epistemic liberation: The case of hermeneutical insurrection of the Network of Community Researchers in Medellin, Colombia

    Open AccessMaría Loreto Vargas, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Ethics2022Cited by: 2References: 5

    Community leaders in Colombia have historically suffered processes of microaggressions and intimidation that threaten the free exercise of their voice in the processes of production of knowledge and in the participation of the planning of their territories. In this article, we explore the case study of the Network of Community Researchers (NCR), also known in Spanish as Red de Investigadores Comunitarios, promoted by the University of Antioquia, …

  • Understanding the multiple harms of energy poverty through Nussbaum’s theory of central capabilities

    Victoria Pellicer-Sifres, Neil Simcock et al.ARTICLELocal Environment2021

    It is widely recognised that energy poverty can have serious and detrimental impacts upon multiple aspects of people’s well-being and life quality. This paper seeks to provide a multi-dimensional and theoretically-attuned account of the relations between energy poverty and well-being, through the use of the Capabilities Approach and specifically Nussbaum’s normative theory of Central Capabilities. Drawing on interviews with 109 households in 4 Eu…

  • The Role of Transformative Innovation for SDGs Localisation. Insights from the South-African “Living Catchments Project”

    Alejandra Boni, Diana Velasco et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2021

    The 2030 Agenda positioned Science, Technology and Innovation as crucial means for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper explores how a localised South-African policy experiment named the “Living Catchments Project” (LC Project) contributes towards the SDGs. This project is part of a portfolio of experiments to trigger innovation for transformative change in South Africa. The LCP team worked directly with the Transformati…

  • Los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible como solución a los problemas de la cooperación al desarrollo? Explorando cuestionamientos y propuestas a partir de las miradas de la sociedad civil valenciana

    Open AccessSergio Belda-Miquel, Carola Calabuig et al.ARTICLERevista iberoamericana de…2020References: 10

    El trabajo se sitúa en el actual debate sobre si la adopción de la Agenda Global 2030 y los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible en las políticas y prácticas de cooperación supone un avance o un retroceso. Para ello, nos interrogamos más concretamente sobre si pueden ser positivos o negativos para abordar los problemas concretos percibidos por el sector de la cooperación no gubernamental al desarrollo español. De forma más normativa y posicionada, …

  • Análisis de las contribuciones del aprendizaje-servicio al estudiantado de una universidad sudafricana desde el enfoque de las capacidades

    Open AccessCarmen Monge-Hernández, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLERevista Electrónica Educare2020Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article addresses the contradiction between training oriented to technical capabilities and training focusing on socially valued capabilities. Its purpose is to value pedagogical experiences that contribute to the expansion of valuable professional skills for students and society. Based on the capabilities approach for human development (CAHD), we analyzed the contribution to the expansion of student capacities that is promoted by curricular…

  • Adaptando los ODS a lo Local mediante la Educación para el Desarrollo. La Experiencia de la Estrategia de la Ciudad de Valencia

    Open AccessAlejandra Boni, Sergio Belda-Miquel et al.ARTICLERevista Internacional de…2019Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article presents the relationship between the Strategy of Non-Formal Development Education of the city of Valencia and the Sustainable Development Goals (sdg). The content of the Strategy is based on three fundamental axes: 1) a territorial approach in the neighbourhood or district; 2) the importance of coordination between municipal actors and ngdos to develop educational proposals and 3) a series of priority themes and methodologies. The c…

  • Initiatives towards a participatory smart city. The role of digital grassroots innovations

    Alejandra Boni, Aurora Lopez-Fogues et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Ethics2019Cited by: 4References: 7

    In this paper we explore the role of Digital Grassroots Innovation (DGI) in the construction of a more participatory smart city. 18 DGIs from four Spanish cities (Santander, Valencia, Bilbao, and San Sebastián) were analysed. They belong to 4 different types of digital innovation: Open Hardware: understood as projects inspired by the maker movement; Open Knowledge: large groups of citizens who join through online platforms to collectively create …

  • SDG Localisation and Decentralised Development Aid: Exploring Opposing Discourses and Practices in Valencia's Aid Sector

    Sergio Belda-Miquel, Alejandra Boni et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Development2019Cited by: 6References: 11

    The approval of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generated intense debates in the aid sector at the global, national and subnational levels. A key question is whether they can address structural problems in development aid policies and practices, such as the lack of accountability and coherence, unequal power relations, or depoliticisation. It seems that this will depend on how the agenda is adopted in the various …

  • Innovación transformadora. Propuestas desde la innovación social colectiva para el desarrollo humano

    Open AccessAlejandra Boni, Sergio Belda-Miquel et al.ARTICLERecerca2018

    Hay muchas maneras de entender y practicar la innovación social. En este artículo queremos abordar una perspectiva concreta: la innovación social colectiva (ISC) que busca explícitamente la transformación de los regímenes socio-técnicos. A partir del análisis de dos experiencias que tienen lugar en Valencia (grupos de consumo y una cooperativa energética), caracterizamos el sentido de la transformación de las ISC y su direccionalidad. Para lo pri…