Posts Tagged ‘banking’
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
In the Innovation Forum “Banks & Future” (Innovationsforum “Bank & Zukunft”) under the academic direction of Fraunhofer IAO (Germany), numerous banks and IT service companies have pooled their competences with regard to future trends in the banking sector. Their aim is to identify market-oriented opportunities for development and structural and technical optimisation potential, to bring together users and producers of technologies in the banking sector, and to initiate the necessary innovation processes. Ever since this research initiative was started in July 2004, a yearly trend survey has been part of the research work.
EFMN Brief No. 131_Bank_Future
Tags: banking, financial services, media, privacy, services
Posted in brief, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2015 | 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
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
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Ireland has set ambitious goals for the development of its rural regions. This foresight exercise asks if the goals of state policy for rural Ireland will be achieved on the basis of current trends, what can realistically be achieved and what needs to be done to ensure a desirable outcome. The conclusions of this foresight exercise are framed in terms of 3 main actions to be undertaken immediately if the state is to realise its ambitions.
EFMN Brief No. 60 – Rural Ireland 2025
Tags: banking, demography, education, knowledge economy, manufacturing, marine, migration, regional development, services, software, tourism, universities, utilities
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Ireland, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2025 | Comments Off
Friday, May 6th, 2011
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 principles rather than techno-centric wish lists. The next was to achieve European consensus on this understanding so it could be supported by all EU players in international fora such as the ITU based in Geneva. The final goal was to develop and apply a method for estimating demand that could gain the support of and be taken up by the 136+ countries involved in ITU Working Party 8F that is trying to understand demand for services and their markets in preparation for WRC-07 – a World Radio Conference to take place in 2007 at which mobile radio spectrum will be apportioned internationally.
EFMN Brief No. 44 – Foresight for Mobile Radio Spectrum 2020
Tags: banking, consumption, education, entertainment, IT, migration, mobile communication, services
Posted in brief, EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 6th, 2011
‘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 products and services for the world of tomorrow. The main pillar of this program is the nature of co-operation between companies and schools. Further support comes from politics and science. Together they are strong partners for re-creating a culture of innovation.
EFMN Brief No. 43 – Youth Foresight Germany 2020
Tags: banking, building (housing), consumption, demographic change, education, entrepreneurs, financial services, housing, life style, lifelong learning, media, migration, mobility, nutrition, sensor technologies, services, tourism, youth
Posted in brief, Energy, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Health, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2020 | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
Consistent with its overall mission to encourage a more anticipatory approach to dealing with change, the Industry Sector Futures initiative of the EMCC offers analyses and insights at a sectoral and European level on drivers of change, scenarios for sector futures and key policy issues and implications that will affect the future of industry sectors in Europe.
EFMN Brief No. 4 – Anticipating Change for Europes Industries 2020 to 2025
Tags: arts, automotive, banking, chemicals, climate, climate change, consumption, defense, demography, financial services, human resources, IT, life science, manufacturing, media, medicine, nutrition, safety, services, social change, sustainability, textiles, vehicle
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics), until 2020, until 2025 | Comments Off
