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UK Foresight
Programme
The
UK Foresight programme brings together experts from business, government,
science and other areas, to predict the future, and to assess the needs to
guarantee long-term competitive advantage and enhanced quality of life for
all.
The
programme was launched in 1993 subsequent to the Government White Paper on
science, engineering and technology, Realising
our Potential. It is based on a panel structure, each panel looking
at a particular area. The aim is, to identify the challenges and opportunities
that the country is likely to face over the next ten to twenty years in that
area.
Foresight
panels have been organised in the following areas: Ageing Population; Crime
Prevention; Manufacturing 2020; Built Environment & Transport; Chemicals;
Defence, Aerospace & Systems; Energy & Natural Environment.
New
Zealand's Foresight Programme
The
Foresight Project is an initiative led by the Ministry of Research, Science
and Technology of New Zealand. Its task is to foster strategic thinking across
diverse sectors, groups and communities within New Zealand. The aim is to
reach increased knowledge of the needs and opportunities for the future,
especially in the fields of research, science and technology, as well as
guiding policy setting in those fields in a second step.
Denmark
Foresight Network
The
Denmark Foresight Network ITS incorporates a number of professionals from
primarily academic, research and governmental institutions in Denmark, which
deal with technological development and change. The aim of the Network and its
participants is to identify how technologies and its changes should best be
addressed in the context of societal, economic, industry or environmental
issues. The Network provides a discussion forum on the question of how the
study and analysis of technology may best be approached.
The
focused research unites at IST are: The Unit of Environmental Studies; The
Unit of Technology and Working Life, Studies of Developing Countries, The Unit
of Technology Analysis and Assessment, Technology and Economics, Sociology of
Technology and Engineering Knowledge.
Foresight in Japan -
National Institute of Science and Technology Policy
(NISTEP)
NISTEP was founded in 1988 as an affiliated research institute under the
Science & Technology Agency. Its task is to conduct theoretical and
empirical research on matters that would be the basis for developing Science
& Technology policy. Besides this task of planning the government S&T
policies by promoting S&T policy research with a comprehensive and
long-term perspective, NISTEP also provides private companies with research
results to assist them in formulating strategies for Research and Development.
Foresight in Germany -
Fraunhofer Institute for Science and Technology.
(ISI)
ISI specialises in the analysis of technological developments, their market
potentials and their impacts on economy, government and society.
The
research focus is mainly in the fields of: Energy; Environment; Production;
Communication; Biotechnology; Regional Research; Innovation Policy.
Foresight in the United
States (1) - Science and Technology Policy Institute (S&T
PI)
S&T PI is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) that
provides analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy (OSTP) and has operated since 1992. The overall aim of S&T PI is to
help improve public policy by guiding decisions through objective analysis. In
performing these analysis the S&T PI cooperates widely with
representatives from private industry, institutions of higher education and
non profit institutions.
S&T
PI works on a wide range of issues, including: U.S. R&D Portfolio and
International Cooperation; Space and Transportation; Critical Infrastructure
and Information Technology; Health, the Environment and Public Safety.
Foresight in the United
States (2) – The Institute for the Future (IFTF)
IFTF is an independent research firm, specialising in long-term forecasting,
alternative futures scenarios and. impact of new products and next-generation
technologies on society and business. The IFTF helps their clients plan their
future by foretelling critical technological, demographic, and business trends.
The
research areas at IFTF are: Emerging Technologies; Strategic Planning; Health
and Health Care.
Foresight in The Netherlands
– Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy (AWT)
The
AWT was launched in 1990 as an advisory body to the Dutch government on
science and technology policy. Its members origin from different sectors like
science, economy etc. . Their task is primarily to advise the Government on
the science and technology policy and to carry out or commission foresight
studies in these fields.
Foresight in
Ireland - Forfás
Forfás
– the National Policy and Advisory Board for Enterprise, Trade, Science,
Technology and Innovation in Ireland – consults the Minister for, and
Department of, Enterprise, Trade & Employment in generating policies for
the development of enterprise, science and technology, and promotes the
industrial development agencies, Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland
(Investment and Development Agency Ireland) . Among others it manages a
foresight network.
Impact
of E-Commerce on Transport
http://www.trg.soton.ac.uk/vm/
This website reports the findings of a study that looks into the possible use
of virtual mobility to overcome mobility-realted social exclusion.
FOREN
is a thematic network with the objective of integrating FORESIGHT processes
into regional development policy and strategic planning
IPTS
- Institute for Prospective Technological Studies offers various reports on
the FUTURES project that analyses the main challenges for 2010 related to
issues concerning technology, employment and competitiveness policy.
http://www.cordis.lu/expert-candidature/
This
site offers opportunities for development of country-specific
guides for Regional Foresight for all Member States.
http://www.arena.uio.no
The site of the Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the
Nation-State offers documents on the evolving European systems of Governance
http://www.jeanmonnetprogram.org/papers/search.html
This
site offers a range of papers on European Integration
http://www.terra-2000.org/
This projects aims at developing scenarios and models of possible developments
in the 21st century in relation to the devolpment of a global information
society.