Briefs
EFP Brief No. 152: Combining ICT and Cognitive Science: Opportunities and Risks
Many experts think that the technological convergence of previously separated sciences like nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication technologies and cognitive sciences will have a deep, long-term impact on society and [...]
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EFP Brief No. 151: Furniture Foresight Centre – CEFFOR®
CEFFOR was created to promote the sustainable development (in terms of all three pillars: economic, social and environmental) of the furniture industry in countries with high costs of production. CEFFOR [...]
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EFP Brief No. 150: Strategic Capacity Building in Clusters to Enhance Future-oriented Open Innovation Processes
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 [...]
EFP Brief No. 149: EU-Africa Energy Partnership: Implications for Biofuel Use
This brief intends to provide an overview of the rationale underlying the EU-Africa Energy Partnership, in addition to an analysis of the potential implications of this policy on the development [...]
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EFP Brief No. 148: Transregional Foresight to Improve and Coordinate Regional Innovation Strategies in Europe
Empowering the strategic development of Europe’s regions is a critical requirement for transforming the EU into a competitive knowledge-based economy. To this end, regional decision-makers need to be enabled to [...]
EFP Brief No. 147: ERoSC – The Socio-economic Impact of Emerging Social Computing Applications
ERoSC is an exploratory research project that aims at studying the socio-economic impact of emerging social computing applications. The exploratory research scheme of the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s Institute [...]
EFP Brief No. 146: Germany 2020 New Challenges for a Land on Expedition
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 [...]
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EFP Brief No. 145: Constructing Dark Scenarios for Privacy Policy Formulation
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 [...]
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EFP Brief No. 144: US Families 2025: Trends and Alternative Futures
In response to a call for papers on the future of feminism from Futures, the international scholarly journal of Futures Studies, an informal workshop was organized to explore changes to [...]
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EFP Brief No. 143: Teagasc 2030: Reinventing the Irish Agri-Food Knowledge System
Teagasc means ‘teaching’ or ‘instruction’ in Gaelic. It is the name of the food and agricultural research, education and advisory body in Ireland. By 2006, fundamental changes happening to the [...]
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