Facing growing complexity and uncertainty of social and environmental contexts, e.g. globalisation, climate change, dynamics of markets of energy and resources, geopolitical security risks and conflicts as well as technological change, it is more important than ever to reflect today’s...

The report contains the documentation of the five future workshops which were performed bythe IZT within the framework of the German Research Dialogue “Futur” during the last quarterof 2001.The general aim of these workshops consisted in supporting the work of the so called Futur“focus...

In den letzten Jahren werden normative narrative Szenarios zunehmend zur Unterstüt-zung von Diskursen in Innovationsprozessen eingesetzt. Die hier vorgestellten zwölf Szenarios sind im Zusammenhang mit der Hightech-Strategie der Bundesregierung bzw. mit Strategieprogrammen des BMBF in den...