Briefs
EFP Brief No. 52: Austrian Tourism 2015
In 2004 tourism in Austria contributed 6.4 % of the nations GDP equivalent to €15.26B. This number however fails to capture the complexity of this economic sector. Just as for [...]
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EFP Brief No. 51: The Millennium Project 2050
The Millennium Project organizes futures research to improve thinking about the future and make that thinking available through a variety of media for consideration by policy-makers and for use in [...]
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EFP Brief No. 50: Knowledge Society Foresight
Knowledge Society Foresight Euforia was a developmental project aimed at identifying and understanding issues and developments of ‘knowledge society’ (KS) at the level of EU15 as a whole, and it [...]
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EFP Brief No. 49: Achieving an Ethical Future for Biomedical R+D
The 2029 Project: Achieving an Ethical Future for Biomedical R+D launched by the IAF – Institute for Alternative Futures develops forecasts on the greatest advances that will come about through [...]
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EFP Brief No. 48: 2020 Living in a Networked World Individually and Securely
Our public, private and professional lives will become interrelated and dependent on technology. This will lead to a ‘networked world’ in which separate technologies will be systematically interconnected and adjusted [...]
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EFP Brief No. 47: Quebec S+T Development Based on Social Needs
The STS Perspectives project is a foresight study examining Science-Technology-Society issues, designed to mobilize Quebec’s scientific and technological resources in order to address important socio-economic challenges that Quebec society will [...]
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EFP Brief No. 46: Canada Looking Forward S+T 21C
The NRC or National Research Council of Canada undertook a foresight exercise with a time horizon of 2020 to initiate planning for its strategic and organizational renewal. The exercise provided [...]
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EFP Brief No. 45: UNIDO Technology Foresight Initiative
UNIDO is implementing a global initiative on Technology Foresight. This draws upon regional initiatives and aims at building the capability to use Technology Foresight as a practical tool for designing [...]
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EFP Brief No. 44: Foresight for Mobile Radio Spectrum 2020
This brief is about a study on the Future Mobile Markets & Services that employed a Foresight approach. The role of the study was to provide a robust and realistic [...]
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EFP Brief No. 43: Youth Foresight Germany 2020
‘Jugend denkt Zukunft’ was setup to make this vision come true and translated directly into English it means ‘young people are thinking about their future’. This single issue foresight exercise [...]
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