Sentence examples for functional foresight from inspiring English sources
Does Functional Foresight lead to technological determinism?
We suggest that Functional Foresight is an answer to this issue.
Thus the Functional Foresight methodology is not only more powerful and flexible from the technology side, but also more productive on the stakeholder side.
The paper describes the functional approach to technology foresight activity, presents how to integrate it with text mining algorithms and experts' domain knowledge, and finally discusses its benefits in the context of Technology Foresight also from an economic point of view, showing that oresight is affordable also for Small and Medium Enterprises.
Only one study tested for functional maturation of temporal foresight in a temporal discounting task where participants have to choose between an immediate but smaller reward and a larger but delayed reward.
To tackle these issues, the present paper proposes to apply a powerful methodological tool called Functional Analysis to the Technology Foresight process.
Riccardo Apreda, Andrea Bonaccorsi, Felice dell'Orletta and Gualtiero Fantoni propose in their paper to apply a powerful methodological tool called Functional Analysis to the technology Foresight process.
For a more detailed description of the above-mentioned cases please refer to (Apreda et al. 2016 Technology Foresight based on functional analysis, submitted).
Here in particular we are referring to the painless colonoscopy technologies where we located both soft robots (worm-like endoscopy by EraEndoscopy2) and Capsules for endoscopy (Apreda et al. 2016 Technology Foresight based on functional analysis, submitted), namely eatable capsules provided with micro video devices, aimed at making pictures of the organs).
This paper builds upon this literature to introduce Functional Analysis into the field of Technology Foresight.
A first advantage of the use of Functional Analysis in the context of Technology Foresight is the abstract and universal nature of functional descriptions.
