After a long process of learning from various foresight activities,8 the recent foresight developments have been reintroduced to DG RTD.
This study and some other Finnish background studies, which have utilized the Boston Consulting Group framework, clearly show that the Delphi-BCG approach is suitable regional foresight and development tool.
The theme of the annual school of international futures retreat at Wilton Park in August will incorporate the use of horizon scanning and foresight into policy development and we will be contributing the lessons we learn there to the inquiry.
These techniques are combined in a Foresight exercise assessing development of clean production in metal manufacturing, drawing on the European CLEANPROD project.
This paper presents an approach to territorial foresight where urban development scenarios and spatial models were co-constructed with a collective of institutional actors in order to facilitate dialogue on future urbanization patterns and impacts on landscapes.
But looking at that TV ad of downloading apps to your phone there's no way anyone in Nokia would have ever believed that it was mainstream enough to get to do that sort of advertising around it". "Nokia's cardinal sin was not as many would suspect lack of foresight about the development of the market such as touchscreens, large displays and tablets," adds Gleeson.
Identifying the key areas for early foresight in the development process has the potential to significantly shorten the time elapsed before developing countries benefit from new interventions, and as a consequence, reduce the unnecessary disease and loss of life that is experienced today.
Despite the above developments, foresight was not taken on board again in the EU until the deep financial crisis that unfolded from 2008.
Foresight processes promote the development of future-oriented attitude among participants, which may ease policy implementation [2].
The objective of the developed software solution is to provide bottom-up information based on citizens' expressed opinions serving as the empiric groundwork for socially rooted policy development and foresight.
