Posts Tagged ‘automotive’
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
The Club of Amsterdam set up an ‘Old and New Energy Lab’ designed to generate novel and potentially viable plans of action for dealing with energy issues by leveraging brainstorming methods to produce innovative thinking and bypass preconceived ideas and assumptions. The process tapped into the expertise of ‘thought leaders’ chosen for their diversity so as to maximise the fertility of discussions.
EFMN Brief No. 138_ Energy Lab
Tags: automotive, biofuel, building (housing), cities, climate, consumption, education, electricity, farming, gas, housing, hydrogen, natural resources, vehicle, waste, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Netherlands, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2015 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Modern materials sciences take as their objective to develop and tailor materials with a desired set of properties suitable for a given application. Next to conventional approaches, predictive modelling and simulation is more and more used. This results into a rapidly increasing knowledge base, allowing for more precise experimental set-ups, more precise simulations and tailoring of goal-oriented materials. They play a key role in the value chain and in product innovation. Although limited profits are made from materials, materials are technology enablers for new high added value products and therefore a key in innovation acceleration. More success and increased opportunities for applications is the outcome. The SMART project aimed at providing support for future strategic decisions in this sector to foster the strengthening of the European Research Area.
EFMN Brief No. 115 – SMART materials
Tags: automotive, chemistry, construction, cultural heritage, defense, electronics, gas, health care, housing, life science, manufacturing, mobility, polymers, safety, sensor technologies, sensors, solar cells, terrorism, textiles
Posted in brief, Energy, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Time Horizon, until 2015 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The objective of this research project is to identify the foresight requirements of German small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), their corporate foresight activities, to the extent that they exist, and limiting factors for systematic foresight approaches. To this end, an expert survey was conducted with SME decision-makers. Its purpose is to make executives more aware of the indispensability and the potential foresight offers in changing markets and business environments, and supporting them in their foresight approaches.
EFMN Brief No. 101 – Corporate Foresight SME
Tags: automotive, construction, corporate, education, IT, media, services, SME, social change, software
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
In the context of the Lisbon strategy and the Barcelona targets, the Luxembourg government intends to increase the level of public spending n R&D from about 50M€ in 2005 to 220 M€ by 2009 and to concentrate the budget increase on a limited number of promising re-search areas on the basis of clearly stated strategic and operational objectives. The purpose of the first national foresight in Luxembourg, conducted in 2006-2007, was to inform policy-makers and provide direction for the definition of these national research priorities.
EFMN Brief No. 99 – Luxemburg
Tags: automotive, banking, climate, consumption, e-government, education, financial services, health care, human resources, life style, media, medicine, migration, mobility, natural resources, nutrition, polymers, sensors, services, sustainability, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Luxembourg, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2015 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The automobile industry is one of the most important industries in Germany and one of the key areas for R&D. To hold this position the industry has to face two challenges: 1st, changing parameters in and for industrial production like minimizing the time to market or shortened product life cycles; and 2nd, demographic change. The purpose of the study was to identify need for action and to present sub-sectors in which ICT could take a supportive role for industrial production.
EFMN Brief No. 93 – Changes in German Production
Tags: aging population, artificial intelligence, automotive, construction, demographic change, demography, education, human resources, IT, media, migration, mobility, safety, SME, work force
Posted in brief, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
While corporate social responsibility is increasingly requested in order to respond to current environmental challenges and threats to public health, the ISIS group of the Commissariat Général du Plan of the French Government (“The Plan”) analyses trends in corporate behaviour as well as regulatory principles underlying sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. Beyond this, the ISIS group explores future issues in different sectors in order to illustrate existing junctions and differences. Based on this prospective analysis, ISIS built four strategic scenarios for state intervention to make an inventory of tools to urge enterprises encompassing social and environmental issues in their schemes for economic development.
EFMN Brief No. 91 – Government and Corporate Social Responsibility 2020
Tags: automotive, chemicals, chemistry, climate, construction, consumption, corporate, developing countries, natural resources, recycling, safety, textiles, vehicle, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), FP7 Themes, France, Geography, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Foresight activities usually aim at decision-making and priority setting in the public sectors of systems of innovation, while the other parts of the RTDI-system have been largely left out of picture: most notably all the entrepreneurial actors on the private side (who actually bring the innovations to the market. This EU-study has been launched to take a first look at the current uses, practices and impacts of foresight in the private sector. It is based on personal interviews with 18 selected European enterprises from hightechnology industries, consumer goods and the service sectors. A workshop, organized in November 2002 with the participation of corporate foresight practitioners, confirmed the overall findings of the report.
EFMN Brief No. 82 – Corporate Foresight in Europe
Tags: automotive, banking, corporate, social change, utilities
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2010 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Kocaeli is one of the leading industrial cities in Turkey. Technology Foresight exercise for industry in Kocaeli aimed at shaping the future of the region through university-industry collaboration by anticipating changes, developments and advancements in manufacturing technologies and increasing the effectiveness and competitiveness of the industry in the region.
EFMN Brief No. 77 – Technology for Industry Foresight – Kocaeli 2012
Tags: automotive, chemicals, cities, education, electronics, manufacturing, media, software
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Regional, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2010 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The overall goal of this foresight study is the identification of global technological trends, which will influence the competitiveness and future development of South African industries over the next 15 years. The study specifically focuses on innovation areas that hold the potential to reduce industrial dependency on foreign technology. Broad-based recommendations are formulated, intending to support the formulation of policies, strategies and programmes aimed at growing South Africa’s technology and innovation base.
EFMN Brief No. 63 – South African Benchmark 2020
Tags: artificial intelligence, automotive, chemicals, cultural heritage, electronics, environmental technologies, financial services, fuel cell, manufacturing, medicine, polymers, robotics, sensors, services, software, sustainability, textiles, tourism, waste, water, youth
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, South Africa, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 6th, 2011
‘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 backbone of the Vision 2023 project. The remaining three programmes supporting the Foresight strand by collecting data on the existing science, technology and innovation capacity, hard data on R+D manpower as well as R+D infrastructure, as well as an inventory of national technology assets and an overview of the institutional and legal framework for research prevailing at this time.
EFMN Brief No. 39 – Turkish S+T Vision 2023
Tags: automotive, biology, chemicals, construction, education, electronics, environmental technologies, human resources, hydrogen, mechatronics, media, natural resources, roadmap, robotics, sensors, software, sustainability, textiles, tourism, universities, water
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Space, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), Turkey, until 2020 | Comments Off
