Selection of innovative health systems solutions for future oriented research may also capture the imagination of policy makers, thus enhancing the chances of influencing policy making [ 28, 29].
Open image in new window Fig. 3 The relationship between futures oriented research questions, methodological stages and outcomes in the field of European welfare policy research.
The trainer discusses general tendencies, and individual experiences are generalized and reformulated in terms of future oriented cognitions and behavior.
Furthermore, additional future- oriented research on megatrends would be needed to accommodate the complexity of the systemic perspective.
Economist J. Fourastie [7, 8, 21] developed a social and economical variant of future-oriented research, which reached far beyond the boundaries of France.
This paper shows the results of future-oriented research based on the qualitative analysis of megatrends, which were used to describe the main trends setting the direction for future development in transportation and their likely effects.
As of today, a greater part of future-oriented research takes place in the context of scientific disciplines that give a lot of importance to the analysis of medium-term and long-term future developments, e.g. demography, economic prognostics, climate research, risk research, technology assessment and (economic or technological) innovation research.
That was the only industry I contacted, because it has a rich history of academically oriented research.
Basic research may include the development of new tools to expand the capacity of clinically oriented research.
Much of the contemporary controversy concerning ethics of research done in less developed countries comes out of clinically oriented research or drug efficacy trials.
A major increase in space spending may actually have the unfortunate effect of crowding out more terrestrially oriented research and development.
