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The United States as a land of the future1

Richardson, Jacques; Robinson, Berol - In: Foresight 10 (2008) 4, pp. 58-68

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the USA can maintain a position of leadership in a world of growing competition and constraints. Design/methodology/approach – The paper points out elements of both strength and correctable weakness of the USA in the foreseeable...

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US innovation is secure

Whaley, Richard - In: Foresight 10 (2008) 5, pp. 3-10

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a short comment on the current US innovation concerns and a recent … organs of transfer of technology to the less developed world. Originality/value – The importance of how innovation and …

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Foresight versus FP7: comparing innovations in healthcare

Butter, Maurits; Hoogendoorn, Joost - In: Foresight 10 (2008) 6, pp. 39-61

Purpose – The EU Framework Programme and the foresight community are both focusing on future developments in innovation … match and mismatch of innovation entities by characterising both by a codified taxonomy on innovation. This taxonomy is … based on the experience of TNO in innovation. In total, 140 flagship foresight activities from the EFMN database are …

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A cyclical model of institutional change

Papenhausen, Chris - In: Foresight 11 (2009) 3, pp. 4-13

Purpose – Previous research on institutional change has largely ignored its cyclical nature. This paper aims to introduce a four‐phase cyclical model of long‐term institutional change. Design/methodology/approach – The recurrent patterns of the model have been identified from previous...

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Plastic promises: the disruptive potential of OLEDs and e‐paper for the European display industry

Forge, Simon; Blackman, Colin; Lindmark, Sven - In: Foresight 11 (2009) 3, pp. 28-44

Purpose – The paper aims to explore two developing display technologies, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and e‐paper, with a view to assessing their potential to disrupt existing markets and thereby offer an opportunity for European firms to play a larger role in the Information and...

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The future of science and technology and pro‐poor applications

Damrongchai, Nares; Michelson, Evan S. - In: Foresight 11 (2009) 4, pp. 51-65

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the overall lack of focus of existing foresight analysis concerning the future of science and technology on the issue of poverty. The paper looks to re‐orient the technology foresight community to adopting an explicit pro‐poor perspective...

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Making anticipatory systems more robust

Rossel, Pierre - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 3, pp. 72-85

Purpose – When coping with complex, but also possibly disruptive and open‐ended social dynamics, the anticipatory system idea, which was developed by Rosen in the realm of physical and biological system observation, remains a reference framework, but one that may need to be reinforced by...

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Road‐mapping the societal transformation potential of social media

Ahlqvist, Toni; Bäck, Asta; Heinonen, Sirkka; Halonen, … - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 5, pp. 3-26

Purpose – This paper seeks to discuss the outcomes of a road‐mapping research on social media project completed at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. Social media refer to a combination of three elements: content, user communities, and Web 2.0 technologies. Design/methodology/approach...

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Innovating for the future? An external assessment of the future‐oriented governance of the Dutch innovation system

van der Duin, Patrick; de Graaf, Rob - In: Foresight 12 (2010) 5, pp. 27-40

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the future‐orientation of the Dutch innovation system and formulate … specific Minister for Innovation and the Dutch government should support the entire innovation process and not just the … beginning. Originality/value – This is the first analysis of the future‐orientation of the Dutch innovation system. …

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Towards a methodological approach: theorising scenario thinking as a social practice

Sarpong, David - In: Foresight 13 (2011) 2, pp. 4-17

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to draw on the social theory of practice to show scenario thinking as an everyday practice and how the practice could be theorised at the meso‐level. Design/methodology/approach – Counterfactual analysis, scenario analysis and peripheral vision are...

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