Briefs
EFP Brief No. 122: Strategic Policy Intelligence for Regional Decision-Making
The RegStrat-project explored new ways of combining foresight with other strategic policy intelligence (SPI) tools, such as technology assessment, evaluation, benchmarking and innovation auditing, to advise regional decision-makers along the [...]
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EFP Brief No. 121: National Foresight Programme “Poland 2020”
The National Foresight Programme “Poland 2020” is the first national foresight exercise being carried out in Poland. It is being con-ducted in three research areas: sustainable development of Poland, information [...]
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EFP Brief No. 120: Opportunities in Innovation for the Dutch Defence Industry
Under the influence of (inter)national technological, political and economic developments, the defence industry is increasingly intertwined with and developing towards a civil industry. Consequently, the political responsibilities, attitude and measurements [...]
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EFP Brief No. 119: Evaluating Foresight – The Colombian Case
This brief introduces the evaluation framework designed by the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR) for the evaluation of the Colombian Technology Foresight Programme (CTFP). An assessment of the First [...]
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EFP Brief No. 118: Austria’s Futures: Past Perspectives and Present Expectations
The Brief covers a foresight exercise that is unique in so far as it revisits the projections and scenarios of a historical foresight undertaken in Austria in 1983 for the [...]
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EFP Brief No. 117: England’s Rural Futures Project: Scenario Creation & Backcasting
Rural Futures is a study of what the English countryside might look like in 20 and 50 years time, from a social geographical perspective. Its overall purpose is to help [...]
EFP Brief No. 116: Regional Infrastructure Foresight
“Regional Infrastructure Foresight” enables municipalities, engineers and decision makers in regional sanitation systems to develop a middle- to long-term strategy for a sustainable sanitation infrastructure. Identification of uncertainties and future [...]
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EFP Brief No. 115: SMART Perspectives of European Materials Research
Modern materials sciences take as their objective to develop and tailor materials with a desired set of properties suitable for a given application. Next to conventional approaches, predictive modelling and [...]
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EFP Brief No. 114: The Singularity Scenario
Although the term ‘Singularity’ or ‘Technological singularity’ has already infatuated both the scientific and the science fiction com-munity alike throughout the 20th century, there is reason enough to report about [...]
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EFP Brief No. 113: FAZIT – The Future of ICT in Baden-Württemberg
In FAZIT (research project for current and future-oriented information and media technology and its use in Baden-Württemberg), present and future demand and applications for innovative information, communication and media technologies [...]
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