This book proposes that organizational policies are what ensure the institutionalization and sustainability of futures thinking in organizations. It presents several case studies from corporations and other institutions that describe effective use of foresight methods and internal policies to...

In this empirical analysis Sara Polier investigates forward-looking external search strategies and their impact on the value contribution of corporate foresight. Based on a mixed method approach combining a quantitative and qualitative analysis of large, R&D-intensive firms, the findings reveal...

What Do We Mean by "the Future"? -- Risk and Uncertainty -- Values and the Future -- Why Do We Want to Know the Future? -- Prediction and Planning -- Seeing the Future: Ideas from Philosophy, Linguistics, and Sociology -- Complexity and the Future -- Analytics and the Future -- Imagination and...

Chapter 1. A Bird’s-eye View of the Economy and Economics -- Chapter 2. What a Creative Economy Is and How It Works -- Chapter 3. Creativity and Intellectual Property -- Chapter 4. Innovation Environment -- Chapter 5. Microeconomic Aspects of Innovation -- Chapter 6. Looking to the Near Future...

Part I: Knowing the Smart City -- Chapter 1. A Definition Problem -- Chapter 2. From City to Smart City: Key Drivers of Change -- Chapter 3. Is There Such Thing as the Smart City 1.0, 2.0, or 3.0? -- Part Ii: Imaging the Future -- Chapter 4. Imaging the Future of Smart Cities -- Chapter 5....

Die Dimensionen der Zukunftsfähigkeit -- Innovation und Handlungsfähigkeit -- Der Wert des Reisens -- Foresight identifiziert Zukunftspotentiale für Unternehmen -- Ex-ante Impact Assessment der ökonomischen und sozialen Wirkungen von Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien: Methodischer Stand,...

Introduction to Yoshihiko Uchida -- The Origin and Development of Uchida’s Social Science -- Civil Society and the Metabolic Relationship Between Human Beings and Nature -- Science and Inquiry in Hajime Kawakami -- Invisible Hand and Manipulative Hand -- In Closing: How to Live in a Society...

1. Measuring the Wellbeing of Groups -- 2. Statistical Matters -- 3. Complete Orderings: Index Types and the Ambiguity Problem -- 4. Partial Orderings -- 5. Comparing Latent Subgroups -- 6. Ambiguity Comparability Segmentation and All That -- 7. Some Applications

Non-Equilibrium Social Science & Policy -- Economics -- Social Psychology and Narrative Economy -- Sociology and Non-Equilibrium Social Science -- Geography far from Equilibrium -- Cities in Disequilibrium -- The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization -- Systems, Networks, and Policy -- Towards a...

This textbook covers microeconomic theory at the level of intermediate and advanced undergraduates. It is also intended as an introduction for those with other intellectual and academic backgrounds who may not necessarily agree with “mainstream” economists but at least are interested knowing...