Innovation activities localized in municipalities are increasingly regarded as the key to fostering growth at the regional level. A deeper statistical analysis of its main actors enables identifying previously unobvious interrelations and better understanding capacities of a territory. However...

Increasingly, teachers, employers, students and their families talk about the importance of identifying promising areas of education, of giving him the ability to meet the strategic needs of the growing and changing economy, a dynamic society. We need to understand a feasibility of such a task,...

Policymakers responsible for improving the skill base needed for future economic development must assess the implications of radical technological change in the future. The example selected here is in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of...

The importance of forests as a strategic resource and intangible assets is growing. So the forest sector has become a subject of numerous Foresight studies of different level and orientation. The European approach is considered as most productive so it is analyzed in the given paper. The basic...

In a relatively short time, futurology has acquired the status of a scientific discipline. In November 2007, the international humanitarian social fund "Znanie" has declared an open competition among young scientists on the history and futurology. It involves awarding 18 prizes at 200-500...

The paper opens a series of two publications devoted to technological roadmapping. This technique allows revealing and relating threats, risks, priorities and opportunities of development for different technologies and thus making better decisions. Different factors influencing on road mapping...