Water resources are crucial for the continuity of life. Humans and living species need fresh water for drinking and sanitation, while most, if not all, industries need water for some part of production processes and products themselves. Access to fresh water is a grand challenge at the global...

From 2007 to 2010, the EC funded a series of blue sky projects on foresight, including on new methodologies for horizon scanning in several European countries. The projects resulted in the evaluation of current methods for obtaining and processing scanning data and new conceptual thinking that...

Relations between the human and hi-tech worlds, even until recently considered the subject of science fiction, are taking a more real shape and becoming the focus of expert discussions. Some specialists suggest that in the future machines can become the principal creator of new technologies and...

Contrary to neoclassical theory that envisioned the economy solely as competing firms whose only objective was profit maximisation, it is now known that not only does development require networking between these firms, but that the quality of networks is an important factor of their dynamism...

Igor Ansoff described the important role and function that detecting and analysing weak signals plays in strategic planning. Weak signals are based on the assumption that every event or disaster caused by man is at times to be foreseen and unsurprising. Under the auspices of discrete...

В современных неопределенных и малопрогнозируемых условиях деятельности возникает необходимость учета слабых сигналов, которые на вероятностных основах...

Purpose. In this paper, I argue that corporate foresight can play the important role not only for large multinational companies, but also for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Rohrbeck et al (2010) proposed that effective corporate foresight can be organized without a process model but...

Modern uncertain and hardly predictable conditions of activity call for taking into account weak signals, which inform about appearance of potential phenomena of the functioning environment in the process of management activity of a company on the basis of probabilistic assessment. With that aim...

There is wide agreement that a transition toward deeper forms of sustainability would require transformational changes at many levels, transcending current patterns of incremental progress. Transformational changes might only occur, in many instances, over time frames that extend well beyond...