Lessons for Foresight practitioners: Running high-creativity research and innovation activities within broader Foresight exercises could be beneficial in many ways, such as to improve the quality of findings of the Foresight process and their socio-economic acceptance by the stakeholders and the general public.
Of the technical, legal, economic, and acceptance roadblocks, the latter may prove among the most difficult to overcome.
Thus, in general there is an economic barrier to acceptance and adoption of new practices (e.g. increasing resistance in insect pests is a cost borne by everyone, not just the farmer on whose property resistance first arose).
Tying the "putting people first" message together was a noticeable shift from the 1980s economic consensus, an acceptance that reducing inequality was important for ensuring economic growth as well as a fair society.
How economic level influences acceptance of evolution is an excellent direction for future research.
The optimized overall model for the cover system has to comply with general conditions as, e.g. economic efficiency, public acceptance and sustainability.
In contemporary China, with the dramatic economic development, wider acceptance of western beliefs and the implementation of one-child policy, young women tend to have a better experience of gender equality than the older generation.
Compared with the 100% inspection policy which is widely used in the literature on integrated production, maintenance and quality control, the results obtained show that an economic design of acceptance sampling in such an integrated context can lead to important cost savings of more than 20%.
According to the USDA, "U.S. farmers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their introduction in 1996, notwithstanding uncertainty about consumer acceptance, economic and environmental impacts" and the fact that allergenicity testing is not yet available for the novel proteins and allergens created in the genetic engineering process.
Thus the intervention meets a higher economic threshold for acceptance than cost-effectiveness (where net intervention costs are positive but are considered reasonable, or low enough, relative to the benefits).
