Briefs

• EFP Brief No. 45: UNIDO Technology Foresight Initiative
  • 06.05.2011 Author : Sami Mahroum

    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 policies and strategies to exploit critical and emerging technologies for the benefit of developing countries and economies in transition. EFMN Brief No. 45 – UNIDO

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• EFP Brief No. 44: Foresight for Mobile Radio Spectrum 2020
  • Author : Simon Forge

    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 understanding of future demand for radio spectrum for mobile services up to 2020. The first challenge was to create an estimate based on sound socio-economic

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• EFP Brief No. 43: Youth Foresight Germany 2020
  • Author : Agnes Pechmann

    ‘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 is designed to involve young adults in the process of economic development. Together with companies, students between the age of 15 and 18 develop new

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• EFP Brief No. 42: Emerging S+T Priorities in the Triadic Regions
  • Author : Karlheinz Steinmueller

    The objective of this Platform Foresight project is the analysis of emerging science and technology priorities in public research policies of the European countries, the US and Japan. The aim is to provide the European Commission and the member states with policy recommendations as to become leaders in these emerging technologies. EFMN Brief No. 42

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• EFP Brief No. 41: Imagineering Ireland: Future Scenarios for 2030
  • Author : John Ratcliffe

    In contemporary society, it is well recognised that public policy, corporate strategy and individual choice, and the way in which they are conducted, is becoming increasingly complex. Consequently, in the context of this rapid change and heightened uncertainty, a better and more versatile understanding of the future and the powerful forces influencing its evolution, is

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• EFP Brief No. 40: Converging Technologies Enabling the Information Society
  • Author : Marc Van Lieshout

    The purpose of the project was to analyse the scientific strengths of the EU compared to the USA and Japan in the field of ‘converging technologies’ with the aim of informing and influencing the European research agenda. EFMN Brief No. 40 – Converging Technologies

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• EFP Brief No. 39: Turkish S+T Vision 2023
  • Author : Ozcan Saritas

    ‘Vision 2023: Strategies for Science and Technology’ is a national project aimed at providing Turkish stakeholders with a vision for the development of science and technology vision in Turkey over a period of 20 years. It involved comprises four strands: Technology Foresight, Technological Capacity, R+D Manpower and R+D Infrastructure. The Technology Foresight strand provided the

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• EFP Brief No. 38: The Polish Foresight Pilot – Health and Living 2013
  • Author : Maria Lepeta

    This pilot Foresight project in the area of Health and Living was aimed at speeding up the process of predicting development paths that would lead to improvement in the health and quality of life of Polish citizens. This activity provides a basis for determining the paths of science and technology policies that support economic priorities

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• EFP Brief No. 37: New Zealand Futurewatch 2025
  • Author : Sami Mahroum

    The goal of this initiative is to alert the government to new scientific knowledge and technology and understand the opportunities and risks that they present for New Zealand. The ambition is to find things that are new or unusual that may act as signposts to important changes on the horizon. Another aim is to think

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• EFP Brief No. 36: Korea 2030
  • Author : bwonpark

    The Third Korean Foresight Exercise entitled ‘Future Perspectives and Technology Foresight for Korea – Identifying Challenges and Opportunities for Korea’s Economy and Society’ represents the most comprehensive effort to date by the Korean government in the field of S&T foresight. Capitalizing on previous studies conducted in 1994 and 1999 its chief purpose is to chart

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