Socio-Economic and Developmental Needs - Focus of Foresight Programmes
Emerging economies in the CEE/NIS region - faced with a number of similar or same challenges when trying to find their new role in the changing international settings, while still characterised by their own distinct level of socio-economic development, set of institutions, culture and norms - can benefit significantly from conducting foresight programmes. Yet, foresight should not be conducted for its own sake - just because it is becoming "fashionable" throughout the world, and currently being promoted by the EU. On the contrary, there should be a strong link between foresight, decision preparation and policy-making. In other words, foresight should be used in the context of (adequately identified) policy needs. Its focus (e.g. purely technological, technoeconomic or broad socio-economic orientation) is, therefore, largely determined by the perceived socio-economic and developmental needs. Further, its focus, broad objectives, geographical scope (level), themes, time horizon, methods and participation are closely interrelated, and thus a careful - but flexible - project design is needed to assure coherence among these constituents. It should be borne in mind, however, that foresight is only one of the available policy instruments, and definitely not a panacea.
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2003
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Authors: | Havas, Attila |
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Budapest : Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics |
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Series: | IEHAS Discussion Papers ; MT-DP - 2003/13 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 872570401 [GVK] hdl:10419/108053 [Handle] RePEc:has:discpr:0313 [RePEc] |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494299
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