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Computer‐assisted roadmapping: a case study in energy research
Kajikawa, Yuya; Takeda, Yoshiyuki; Matsushima, Katsumori - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 2, pp. 4-15
Purpose – The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology of computer‐assisted roadmapping to supplement an expert‐based approach, which is time‐consuming and subjective. Design/methodology/approach – A computer‐based approach using citation network analysis is used to depict...
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The application of future‐oriented technology analysis (FTA) to law: the cases of legal research, legislative drafting and law enforcement
Nuno Gomes de Andrade, Norberto - In: Foresight 14 (2012) 4, pp. 336-351
of specific FTA methodological approaches (such as scenario‐planning, modelling techniques and backcasting) may bring to …, the ones that exist lack proper methodology, failing to encompass the use of forecasting methods or foresight tools in the …‐oriented analysis (FTA) – as a common umbrella term that encompasses foresight, forecasting and technology assessment methods and tools …
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Bibliometric data and actual development in technology life cycles: flaws in assumptions
Suominen, Arho; Seppänen, Marko - In: Foresight 16 (2014) 1, pp. 37-53
. Originality/value – Despite increasing interest in modelling technological data using this method, reports rarely discuss basic …
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Newton’s novocaine: sharing the spoils of a non‐linear future
Abeles, Tom P. - In: Foresight 3 (2001) 3, pp. 233-239
When we inhabit time and space, how can foresight be other than a parallax view? Not only is the ground shifting beneath our feet, but our culture colours our perspective. We replace our imagination with computers and program them with data that is often skewed. We begrudge paying our taxes yet...
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The discipline and ritual of forecasting: Greenleaf’s version
Buchen, Irving H. - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 2, pp. 4-6
coherent and rigorous discipline of forecasting which involved three stages.  …
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Social science research priorities related to genomics
Bezold, Clement; Miles, Ian - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 4, pp. 36-42
New technologies are posing new challenges to social science. Their very novelty also challenges the established methods that social research institutions have used to define their priorities. The UK’s Economic and Social research Council (ESRC) confronted these challenges, in part, by...
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Creating a better world: 15 global challenges
Glenn, Jerome C.; Gordon, Theodore J. - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 5, pp. 15-37
The world is increasingly complex and the most serious challenges are global in nature. Questions to do with sustainable and equitable development, democratic change, terrorism and transnational crime, for instance, require collaborative action among governments, international organizations,...
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Removing the fear of uncertainty from the future: theory and practice
Mercer, David; Wilter, Adele - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 5, pp. 38-45
The most important results of our recent work, the culmination of a decade of global research involving several thousand managers and professionals from large organisations, are explored in terms of how long‐range planning may be undertaken more effectively by a wider range of organisations....
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Future fiction and the military: visions of other worlds?
Richardson, Jacques G. - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 5, pp. 46-54
Speculation, hypothesizing and imagination are the dreamer’s tools. Advanced research and novel technology for the military often profit from what are sometimes unstructured approaches to invention. Once that reality materializes, it may be stranger than the phantasma of the most unleashed of...
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Managing future expectations globally
Mercer, David - In: Foresight 4 (2002) 6, pp. 46-52
In this paper, some of the most important results of the recent work of the author’s Futures Observatory, the culmination of a decade of global research involving several thousand managers and professionals from large organisations, are explored in the context of the long‐range planning...
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