In 2010, the German Federal Government launched one of its largest research initiatives in the area of logistics and supply chain management with the central aim to secure tomorrow’s individuality, in the sense of mobility and distribution, with 75% of today’s resources. One of the projects, the ‘Competitiveness Monitor’ (CoMo) develops an innovative, webbased foresight platform, which supports strategic decision-making and contingency planning as well as competitive and environmental intelligence.
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EFP Brief No. 245: Trend Database Design for Effectively Managing Foresight Knowledge
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013EFP Brief No. 238: Dutch Research Agenda
Friday, December 21st, 2012Scenario forecasts for the Dutch mobility system, energy system and built environment in 2040 were performed to investigate which knowledge TNO should develop to support and stimulate future innovation in these fields. Three scenario studies were conducted to investigate the Dutch built environment, the Dutch energy system and the Dutch mobility system. The results serve to strengthen the TNO strategy statement.
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EFP Brief No. 234: Freightvision Followup
Friday, December 21st, 2012The purpose of the accompanying social research study to the Freightvision exercise (Brief No. 226) was twofold: First, we wanted to introduce a concept for accompanying social research of a large participatory foresight process in order to grasp immediate learning effects. Secondly, we analysed immediate learning effects in the course of a large participatory foresight process. The research questions guiding the empirical analysis were: How can we operationalise and measure learning in the context of a large foresight process? Learning thereby involves different levels of learning: individual learning, group learning, organisational learning, system-level learning etc. And how can we operationalise and measure networking, i.e. the establishment of personal ties that enable the exchange of information and hence learning in a large foresight process?
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EFP Brief No. 231: FreightVision Austria 2050
Tuesday, December 4th, 2012The project Freight Vision Austria 2050 (FVA2050) aimed at providing a foresight study of freight transport and logistics futures in Austria by 2050. The intention was to explore the future of freight transport and logistics in particular, looking at technological progress and future innovation opportunities. A second aim was to outline a shared vision of an Austrian freight transport system by 2050 that would achieve European as well as national environmental and transport policy targets. The project FVA2050 was structured similarly to the European project FreightVision Europe (FVE 2050). FVA2050 was commissioned by the innovation section of the Austrian Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology. The objective was to set priorities and give a synopsis of key technologies and future innovation opportunities.
Download the brief: EFP Brief No. 231_FreightVision Austria 2050.
EFP Brief No. 228: Visions for Horizon 2020 from Copenhagen Research Forum
Friday, November 23rd, 2012In 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.
EFP Brief No. 226: Freightvision
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012The project goal was to develop a long-term vision and action plan for a sustainable European long-distance freight transport system by 2050, covering both transport policy and research and technology development policy. It aimed at bringing new knowledge (e.g. on climate change), perspectives (including from outside the transport sector) and stakeholder groups into an established field. Creating channels for communication between participants from business, policy, civil society and R&D to overcome sectoral boundaries was an explicit goal from the beginning.
Download: EFP Brief No. 226_Freightvision.
EFP Brief No. 220: From Transport Forecasting to “Mobility Science”
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012This follow-up brief recapitulates a foresight exercise on ‘Transport and Mobility in an Enlarged Europe – 2020’. Almost eight years after the exercise, we look back in order to learn from this experience and ask what the mid-term to long-term implications are. The motivation for this foresight was to test the applicability of some foresight methods for envisioning transport and mobility futures, to specify impact pathways, develop a monitoring system, find alternatives to mainstream policy assessment methods and transport models with regard to identifying external impact factors not necessarily related to transport. Finally, the idea was to clarify the pathways by which external and policy variables affect transport and mobility.
EFP Brief No 220_From Transport Forecasting to Mobility Science
EFP Brief No. 217: Sectoral Innovation Foresight: The Sectors
Friday, May 25th, 2012This brief continues the coverage of the Sectoral Innovation Foresight of Brief no. 216 by taking a closer look at seven out of the nine sectors that were explored in the project as part of the Europe INNOVA initiative: automotive, food and drink, knowledge-intensive services, aerospace, and wholesale and retail. The foresight study aimed to identify potential policy issues and challenges of the future. The emphasis was put on developments that could possibly have a disruptive effect on the sectors under consideration, on the one hand, and on developments that are likely to be of cross-sectoral relevance to innovation, on the other.
EFP Brief No. 216: Sectoral Innovation Foresight: The Challenges
Friday, May 25th, 2012The Sectoral Innovation Foresight was part of the Sectoral Innovation Watch (SIW) project within the Europe INNOVA initiative. The foresight study aimed at exploring future developments in nine different sectors in order to identify potential policy issues and challenges of the future. The emphasis was put on developments that could possibly have a disruptive effect on the nine sectors under consideration, on the one hand, and on developments that are likely to be of cross-sectoral relevance to innovation, on the other.
EFP Brief No. 213: Material Efficiency and Resource Conservation (MaRess) Project
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012In 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
