Posts Tagged ‘corporate’
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
For the purpose of increasing and sustaining business and regional long-term competitiveness, information and training modules were developed to enrich cluster development policies with tools that give incentives for and facilitate ‘outward-looking’ (open innovation) and forward-looking (foresight, technology assessment) activities and thus provide strategic guidance for developing future-proof, open innovation processes. After testing the tools in ICT, mechatronics and life sciences clusters, they are now being applied in a trans-regional foresight approach to develop a joint research agenda for clusters in the economically more and more important creative industries.
EFMN Brief No. 150_Open Innovation
Tags: arts, climate, corporate, education, human resources, knowledge economy, life science, mechatronics, roadmap, RTI/RTDI, services, SME, SWOT
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 2020 | Comments Off
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
The brief provides a short overview of a project in which Deutsche Bank Research has combined its own foresight expertise with inputs from the bank’s business strategists and external experts in order to develop scenarios for the future development of the German economy and society against the backdrop of intensifying structural change.
EFMN Brief No. 146_Germany 2020
Tags: arts, corporate, education, globalisation, jobs, knowledge economy, mobility, services, SME, universities
Posted in brief, Energy, FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
In the last few decades, scenarios have provided a way of analysing the implications of alternative futures, especially as they might be impacted by new technologies. This has been no less true of ambient intelligence (AmI), which may be embedded everywhere in the not so distant future. Most of the scenarios developed by AmI enthusiasts have been rather “sunny”, showing how new technologies promise to make our lives more productive and enriching. A European project called SWAMI (Safeguards in a World of Ambient Intelligence) deliberately developed “dark scenarios” to highlight the threats to privacy, identity, trust and security and inclusiveness posed by new technologies. This brief describes the SWAMI scenarios and the methodology used to construct and analyse them.
EFMN Brief No. 145_Dark Scenarios
Tags: corporate, education, media, privacy, sensors, services, software
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), EU, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Information and communication technologies (ICT), Security, Time Horizon, until 2015 | Comments Off
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
The objective of this foresight brief is to summarise foresight experiences made by foresight practitioners of international companies attending the conference “in the long run” in Berlin in October 2004. The paper summarises new environmental conditions for corporate foresight and the resulting challenges for foresight work as perceived by the speakers. The paper also gives an overview of best practice solutions for the challenges presented.
EFMN Brief No. 126_In_the_Long_Run
Tags: artificial intelligence, corporate, demography, education, globalisation, roadmap, services, universities
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Global, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
The report “Horizon 2020 – A thought-provoking look at the future” is a dialogue invitation rather than an attempt to provide another “traditional” strategic scenario very often aiming to lay out a roadmap for a predetermined outcome. The report in question differs from this approach in three respects. First, it aims at creating a basis for dialogue with the public at large. Second, it addresses a broad range of topics covering political, social, economical, environmental and technological issues. Third, the report offers two scenarios on the basis of an expert survey.
EFMN Brief No. 111 – Horizons 2020
Tags: corporate, demography, education, health care, lifelong learning, roadmap, services, social change, sustainability, terrorism
Posted in brief, Environment (including climate change), FP7 Themes, Geography, Germany, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Agriculture in the UK and Europe as a whole is facing an uncertain future as the factors that have shaped it over the last 50 years are realigned in the face of changing priorities. In this context, this study explored possible future scenarios for agriculture in England and Wales through to 2050 in order to identify implications for the environment and possible policy interventions and research priorities to help promote sustainable agriculture.
EFMN Brief No. 104 – Agricultural Futures
Tags: climate, construction, consumption, corporate, services, sustainability, 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, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, United Kingdom, until 2050 | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
Europe is currently facing the challenge of a highly dynamic and fluid policy context. It is confronted with a seemingly accelerating pace of change, both internally and externally. Internally, a culturally diverse, ageing and risk-averse population, a mix of high tech and declining industries and growing environmental and security concerns require governments to design new frameworks for re-search and innovation. Externally, this policy context is influenced by and influences the emergence of key technologies. The speed and the magnitude of their disruptive impact on the economy and society in turn depend on and are embedded in a wide range of socio-cultural factors.
This challenge calls for a substantial leap forward in thinking and mindsets, by moving from incrementally improving on business-as-usual approaches to exploring new paradigms and alternative futures. A redefinition of the “European model” is called for, capturing the minds and spirits, and bringing together the inherent collective strengths of the EU and its 27 member states. It should comprise a combination of strategic responses addressing short to medium and long-term research policy agendas. For this purpose, a Key Tech-nologies High Level Group composed of experts in 15 key technology areas, and led by a chairperson and a rapporteur, was set up by the K2 Unit of Directorate-General Research, to “assess the potential and the emerging scientific and technological research topics in fifteen specific areas, their impact on EU competitiveness and societal fabric, and the potential response of EU and its Member States”.[1]
EFMN Brief No. 102 – Creative System Disruption
Tags: consumption, converging technologies, corporate, environmental technologies, health care, manufacturing, services, social science, universities
Posted in brief, Energy, EU, Food, agriculture and fisheries, biotechnology, FP7 Themes, Geography, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Security, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, Transport (including aeronautics) | 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
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
The ‘Summit for the Future’ is organized on an annual basis by The Club of Amsterdam. It brings together international Thought Leaders to discuss significant, global challenges and opportunities. In 2006 it focused on the subject of risk and the role of risk in society, innovation and global growth. Without risk taking there is no progress, no growth and no prosperity. The Summit provided an occasion to reflect upon the role of risk in enterprise and society, on how the global spectrum of risk is changing, and on the acquisition of new tools and thinking to harness risk as a force for growth in the future.
EFMN Brief No. 88 – Summit for the Future 2006
Tags: biology, corporate, education, entertainment, internationalization, life style, manufacturing, media, medicine, services
Posted in brief, Energy, Environment (including climate change), FP7 Themes, Geography, Global, Health, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities | Comments Off
