Archive for the ‘Information and communication technologies (ICT)’ Category
Friday, December 21st, 2012
The aim of the BMBF Foresight process that ran from 2007-2009 was to identify long-term priorities for German research and innovation policy with an emphasis on crosscutting systemic perspectives. The foresight process was meant to complement the German High-Tech Strategy, which had defined mission-oriented priority fields with a medium-term horizon. After the finalisation of the foresight process in 2009, an implementation phase with several interacting activities was launched in order to feed the results into other strategic processes. As a next step, BMBF set up an embedded, continuously learning foresight system with dedicated phases that will be repeated by all subsequent processes. Within this framework, the second foresight cycle was launched in early 2012.
Download EFP Brief No. 240_BMBF Foresight.
Posted in Germany, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, until 2030 | Comments Off
Friday, December 21st, 2012
This brief presents the concept of Creative Foresight Space (CFS), which is an alternative workspace as well as a foresight methods-based processing platform for a new kind of proactive and innovative working culture. CFS is a concept to stimulate both creativity and futures thinking. It combines physical, digital, virtual and peer-to-peer collaborative approaches for innovative and social futuring in organisations. It is designed especially to meet the challenges posed by the transition from information society to a meanings society. CFSs also provide a diverse platform for special futures workshops – called Futures Cliniques. CFSs enhance work milieus, augment work motivation as well as strengthen futures thinking and foresight competence.
Download EFP Brief No. 237_Creative Foresight Space for Enhanced Work Milieux.
Posted in EU, Finland, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, December 21st, 2012
Under the influence of (inter)national technological, political and economic developments, the Dutch defence industry is increasingly intertwined with and developing towards a civilian industry. Consequently, the political responsibilities, atti-tudes and criteria are changing for both the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Economic Affairs. An analysis of the Dutch defence industry helped to determine the main opportunities for innovation in the industry and to identify the com-plementary technological competences needed to make the most of them. A strategic vision, including options for innova-tion policy, was developed as well. In this follow-up brief, we reiterate the background, approach and results of the initial foresight study and describe its impact in the years to follow.
Download EFP Brief No. 236_Assessing Dutch Defence Needs_Follow-up.
Posted in Information and communication technologies (ICT), Netherlands, Security, until 2015 | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
STRATCLU, the ‘entrepreneurial’ strategy process of the German ‘spitzen’-cluster (leading-edge cluster) MicroTEC Südwest meets the needs of multi-actor, multi-governance-level and multi-sector research and innovation (R&I) policies. The forwardand outward-looking process exemplifies how a broad range of regional R&I actors can share and utilise strategic knowledge to identify joint priorities for longer-term, synergistic R&I investments and collective actions, and focus their diverse competences in microsystems as a general purpose technology to tackle societal challenges and enter future markets globally.
Download: EFP Brief No. 232_STRATCLU.
Posted in Energy, Environment (including climate change), Germany, Information and communication technologies (ICT), until 2020, until 2025 | Comments Off
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
In January 2012, the Copenhagen Research Forum (CRF) gathered 80 European scientists to discuss the societal chal-lenges to be addressed by Horizon 2020, the next framework programme for European research and innovation, and consider how research could contribute the best solutions. This EFP brief explains the process behind the CRF and gives a summary of recommendations. It ends with a discussion on cross-disciplinarity and strategic partnerships as tools for organising research in order to solve complex societal challenges.
Download: EFP Brief No. 228_Visions for Horizon 2020.
Posted in Energy, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2020 | Comments Off
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
New technologies are changing the market. All the more important it is for a company not to miss any relevant future technology. In the years 2009 and 2010, a global German high technology company used the support of the FutureManagementGroup AG to identify the ten most important emerging technologies in each of its four business units. The technologies should lie outside the current core technologies. The goal of the project was the early recognition of future markets in these technologies. For this purpose, we used a broad toolset in accordance with the Eltville Model of future management.
Download: EFP Brief No. 224_Technology Radar Eltville
Posted in brief, Germany, Global, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
This follow-up brief recapitulates the foresight exercise of the “Foresight on Information Society Technologies in the European Research Area (FISTERA)” project. Six years after the project was concluded, we look back with the purpose of extracting key lessons learned and ask what the mid-term to long-term implications of this foresight exercise are, in particular how effective the FISTERA project was in feeding the findings derived from the foresight exercise into a process of strategic priority-setting in information society technologies at the European level.
EFP Brief No. 221_FISTERA_Follow-up
Tags: follow-up brief
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
In order to successfully provide relevant groups with political support for implementing resource efficiency, one needs to know where to start best, thus, where the highest potentials are likely to be found. Addressing four key issues, MaRess identified potentials for increasing resource efficiency, developed target group-specific resource efficiency policies, gained new insights into the effects of policy instruments at the macro- and micro-economic level, provided scientific support for implementation activities, engaged in agenda setting and communicated findings to specific target groups. This paper presents the overall results of Work Package 1 (WP1) with regard to the potential analyses of the identified technologies, products and strategies. The results were gained from research conducted in the context of a graduate research programme, which was embedded in a network of experts who were involved in the analysis.
EFP Brief No. 213_Material Efficiency and Resource Conservation
Tags: resource efficiency
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Transport (including aeronautics) | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
The main purpose of the exercise is the development of new methods to discover patterns that new technologies follow and the opportunities they offer for innovation. This brief attempts to foster a new understanding of the mechanisms generating innovations. It presents a methodology to identify future technology opportunities based on text mining of scientific and technological databases. Assisting priority or agenda setting, the method could be useful for technology managers and corporate decision-makers in planning and allocating R&D resources.
EFP Brief No. 212_Tech_Mining
Tags: agenda setting, database, innovation, methodology, text mining
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), FP7 Themes, Geography, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Regional, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2010 | Comments Off
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
The exercise presented includes scenarios of key Russian economic sectors and determines necessary technologies in accordance with such scenarios. As key sectors, the foresight team investigated the energy, iron and nonferrous-metals industry, agriculture, the chemical industry and pharmaceutics, the aircraft industry, commercial shipbuilding and the information sector.
EFP Brief No. 208_Forecasting Innovation in Russian Economic Sectors
Tags: scenarios
Posted in brief, Energy, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Russia, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2030 | Comments Off
