The increasing dynamism and complexity of business environmentsmeans that early recognition and monitoring of technological, market,political and social developments is becoming increasingly significant toinnovative success.In order to successfully identify innovation opportunities and risks,...

Pervasive Computing ist eine zukünftige Anwendungsform von Informations- undKommunikationstechnologien (ICT), die durch Miniaturisierung und Einbettung vonMikroelektronik in andere Objekte sowie ihre Vernetzung und Allgegenwart im Alltaggekennzeichnet ist. Anders als die meisten heutigen...

The science/public/policy relationship is subject to deep changes. Taking these changesas a starting point, the following paper examines the changing foresight landscape in theEuropean Union, both from an institutional and from a methodological perspective. Thenecessity for a reorganisation of...

This paper discusses the sustainability impact (contribution to sustainability, reduction of adverse environmental impacts) of online second-hand trading. A survey of eBay users shows that a relationship between the trading of used goods and the protection of natural resources is hardly...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of research and innovation futures, sketch the landscape of recent findings in this field with a focus on new ways of doing and organizing knowledge creation and position the contributions to this special issue within that landscape....

Purpose This article aims to advance the state of the art in constructing transformative scenarios by building upon Boudon’s social theory and to reflect its application to research and innovation futures. Design/methodology/approach The scenarios are based upon a particular multi-level...

The scarcity of many raw materials holds significant conflict potentials as global demand increasesrapidly. This does not only apply to fossil resources, focussed in the public debate, but also to manyrare mineral resources. An important example is the ore coltan, from which tantalum is...

Pervasive Computing ist eine zukünftige Anwendungsform von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (ICT), die durch Miniaturisierung und Einbettung von Mikroelektronik in andere Objekte sowie ihre Vernetzung und Allgegenwart im Alltag gekennzeichnet ist. Anders als die meisten heutigen...