Emerging economies in Central and Eatern Europe 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,...

This paper analyses the methods to assess the socio-economic impacts stemming from participation in the EU Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Framework Programmes (FPs) projects. Some of the most significant impacts of Central and Eastern European participation in FPs can only...

TEP, the Hungarian Technology Foresight Programme, was launched in 1997, as the first one in Central and Eastern Europe, to provide inputs to a national innovation strategy by identifying socio-economic challenges and developing broad visions for the future. Specifically, it was aimed at...