Foresight has evolved as a distinct prospective analytical tool: it considers alternative futures of various S&T fields or socio-economic systems by bringing together the perspectives of various stakeholder groups, and thus assists the decision-making processes at different levels. However, in...

Foresight can be a highly useful tool to address the opportunities and challenges triggered by the next production revolution. As shown by the various country cases considered in this chapter, it facilitates debating and systemic thinking about multiple futures and helps shaping the future...

TEP, the Hungarian Technology Foresight Programme, was launched in 1997, as the first one in Central and Eastern Europe, to provide inputs to a national strategy by identifying socio-economic challenges and developing broad visions for the future. Specifically, it was aimed at analysing Hungary...

The growing complexity of the world will require that society develop more options for coping. Options will come from new discoveries, inventions, ideas - in short, from research and innovation. This document summarizes a foresight report, commissioned by the European Commission's...

The growing complexity of the world will require that society develop more options for coping. Options will come from new discoveries, inventions, ideas - in short, from research and innovation. This document summarizes a foresight report, commissioned by the European Commission's...

The growing complexity of the world will require that society develop more options for coping. Options will come from new discoveries, inventions, ideas - in short, from research and innovation. This foresight report, commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and...