Archive for the ‘Regional’ Category
Tuesday, January 29th, 2013
This brief presents the results of a survey conducted as part of the WBC-INCO.NET project initiative to support innovation capacities in the Western Balkans region. The WBC-INCO.NET project seeks to promote the bi-regional dialogue on science and technology between the EC, the member states and the Western Balkan countries. The survey aimed to pinpoint both present and likely future research and market needs as well as identify possibilities for collaboration in the region.
Download EFP Brief No. 244_Research and Innovation Needs in the Western Balkan Countries
Posted in Balkan, until 2030 | Comments Off
Friday, December 21st, 2012
This climate policy research demonstrates that in India’s agriculture-dominated and gender-biased economy, the future of India’s adaptation strategy hinges on how well gender is integrated into agriculture-related policies and programmes. India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change, which lays out India’s strategy for mitigation and adaptation, recognises that women suffer more from climate change impacts than men. However, it fails to recognise that women are also integral to climate solutions. The research concludes with a set of policy recommendations for policy-makers and other actors.
Download EPF Brief No. 243_Gender-transformative Climate Change Adaptation.
Posted in Asia, Environment (including climate change), until 2050 | Comments Off
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
This was the first time that Taiwan conducted a large-scale expert opinion survey using the Delphi approach. The goal was to identify research topics relevant to shaping the future of agriculture in Taiwan. Applying roadmapping, the project presented policy suggestions at the end of 2011. The suggestions have been incorporated into the Taiwanese govern-ment’s Council of Agriculture (COA) research agenda as evidenced by COA’s call-for-projects announcement.
Download: EFP Brief No. 229_Taiwan Agricultural Technology Foresight 2025.
Posted in Asia, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, until 2025 | 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
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
The projected demographic change and the resulting necessity of a longer working life represent considerable challenges for (1) the individual quality of life and work of employees, (2) the innovative capacity and productivity of companies and (3) the negotiability of the welfare state. As its goal, the foresight project set out to analyse the concrete situation and development potential of the working world in the Province of Salzburg and depict the options for taking action at the micro-level (individual), meso-level (organisations) and macro-level (socio-political actors) in the form of scenarios. The project placed particular emphasis on transferring research results into practice.
EFP Brief No. 206_Future strategies for ageing management in Salzburg Province
Tags: aeging management, demographic change, scenarios, working life, working patterns
Posted in Austria, brief, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, National, Regional, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2030 | Comments Off
Monday, November 7th, 2011
The purpose of the SEA-EU-NET foresight process is to open up and structure the discussion on the potential future cooperation(s) between the EU and Southeast Asia in the field of S&T. We assess potential “futures” of organising S&T relations between the EU and Southeast Asia in 2020 and discuss their current implications and geopolitical consequences.
EFP Brief No. 201_SEA-EU-Net Foresight
Tags: Backcasting, Delphi, S&T, scenario building, Southeast Asia
Posted in Asia, brief, EU, Geography, Regional, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, September 30th, 2011
This brief presents the findings of a research project aimed at understanding the influence of policy-oriented foresight on public policy in Flanders. A foresight identifying six strategic clusters for technology and innovation policy in Flanders is analysed. The results of this analysis show that the foresight-oriented technology assessment (FTA) did have a significant impact on the policy process, but the greater effect might prove to be in its role as a reference point for future FTAs, which will then give shape to long-term technology and innovation policy in Flanders.
EFP Brief No. 195_Influence_of_Foresight
Tags: impacts, methodology
Posted in Belgium, brief, Regional, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2010 | Comments Off
Monday, May 30th, 2011
This foresight activity was part of the EU FP7 Blue Skies Project aimed at piloting, developing and testing in real situations a foresight methodology designed to bring together key stakeholders for the purpose of exploring the longer term challenges facing their sector and building a shared vision that could guide the development of the relevant European research and policy agenda. One of the four topics chosen in this project was future innovation policy in Europe, as an example of a cross-cutting policy area that affects different policy levels – from European to regional. The exercise was received with great interest by stakeholders and policy actors, leading to high-level participation from member states and at the EU-level.
EFP Brief No. 182_European Innovation Policy
Tags: innovation, policy
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Regional, until 2020 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
As a part of the Ljubljana Process of governance of ERA, which was launched by the EU Commission and Council in May 2008, a common 2020 vision for the European Research Area was adopted on 2 December 2008. This vision stipulates that: “[…] by 2020, all actors should fully benefit from the free circulation of researchers, knowledge and technology.”1 Forward looking activities are indis-pensable for promoting the policy process of the ERA vision 2020 in order to speak with one voice, to jointly promote consistency between their R&D cooperation activities, and to develop joint initiatives that give Europe leadership in addressing global challenges and reaching sustainable development goals.
EFP Brief No. 168_ERA Vision 2020
Tags: ERA, knowledge, social trends, technology
Posted in brief, EU, France, Germany, Global, National, Regional, Sweden, until 2020 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
In the project “Roadmap 2020”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, seven fields of environmental policy were investigated in order to explore to which extent research and development activities will be able to foster future environmental innovations. The purpose of the project was the identification of strategic options for research and development and their transfer into practice in the field of environmental technologies by 2020. The results were gained by literature and Internet research, an expert opinion survey and four workshops on different topics.
EFP Brief No. 161_Roadmap Environmental Technologies
Tags: biology, care facilities, climate, climate change, developing countries, safety, water
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), Geography, Germany, Japan, Latin America, Nuclear research, EURATOM, until 2020 | Comments Off
