Posts Tagged ‘methodology’
Thursday, June 21st, 2012
This follow-up brief recapitulates the evaluation of the Colombian Technology Foresight Programme (CTFP). The foresight brief no. 119 (“Evaluating Foresight – The Colombian Case”) summarised the methodological aspects and principal focus of the framework on which the evaluation of the second cycle (2005 – 2008) of the CTFP was based. The objective of the present follow-up brief is to look back and summarise the implications of the evaluation of the CTFP by drawing on the key findings of the evaluation summary report. Concretely, it focuses on (1) the appropriateness and adaptation of the evaluation framework, as well as the effects for the spread of a foresight culture in Colombia that have been induced or stimulated by the evaluation of the CTFP and (2) the institutional mechanisms in support of the social appropriation of the CTFP’s output and results as well as the dissemination of the foresight knowledge generated by the CTFP to policy, industry and society as a whole.
EFP Brief No 218_ Embedding Foresight in the Colombian Innovation System
Tags: evaluation, follow-up brief, impacts, methodology
Posted in brief, Colombia, FP7 Themes, Geography, National, Socio-economic sciences and the humanities, Time Horizon, until 2020 | Comments Off
Friday, May 25th, 2012
The main objective of this study is to explore possibilities of institutional capacity building for constructive technology assessment (CTA) of nanoscience and nanotechnology in Portugal and Brazil. In this project, CTA is understood as more than a specific methodology. It represents a family of approaches to broaden interaction among stakeholders and influence or modulate the design process. One of its tenets is to consider and promote reflexivity about ethical, legal and social issues, along with environmental, health and safety concerns early on and throughout the technology research and development process.
EFP Brief No. 215_Institutionalisation of CTA-Portugal and Brazil
Tags: constructive technology assessment, CTA, methodology
Posted in Brazil, brief, FP7 Themes, Geography, Nanosciences, nanotechnology, materials, new production technologies, National, Portugal, Time Horizon, until 2015 | 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
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
The Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues (SESTI) project was about identifying “emerging issues” that could have a potentially significant impact on society by 2030, are still not sufficiently recognised by policy makers, and to which policy makers should (perhaps) pay more attention. The overall objectives were to research the added value of weak signal scanning, develop and improve the theoretical concept of weak signals, assess the strengths and weaknesses of several scanning methods (exploratory and evaluative), identify emerging issues and ways of creating awareness among the policy community.
EFP Brief No. 197_Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues
Tags: emerging issues, methodology, research policy, weak signals
Posted in brief, EU, Geography, Time Horizon, until 2030 | 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
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
This paper focuses on an analysis of the Millennium Project’s “Futures Research Methodology – Version 3.0” report with the aim of making it more meaningful and useful particularly for foresight practitioners but also for users in general. The compilation of future methodologies is assessed in terms of the understanding of the nature of systems implied in the method and what it suggests as the best means of influencing systems. The analysis aims at improving our understand-ing of the wide range of knowledge, practices and assumptions these methods convey and enhancing our ability to learn about futures and expand our horizons of futures knowledge.
EFP Brief No. 180_Emergence and Design in Foresight Methods
Tags: methodology, social complexity
Posted in brief, FP7 Themes, Geography, Time Horizon, until 2010, US | Comments Off
