the EUROFORE pilot project, Final Report, ESTO/IPTS, Sevilla, 2003.7 B. R. Martin, J. Irvine, Research Foresight:
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Innovation Vienna Strategy for Research, Technology and Innovation, Vienna, 2007.43 K. M. Weber, A. Geyer, D. Schartinger, P. Wagner, Zukunft der Mobilität in Österreich.
Dr. E. Anders Eriksson received his Phd In operations Research from KTH in Stockholm in 1986.
Research activities are due to start in 2008. The activities in Woodwisdom-Net are carried out in five work packages (WP.
which reflects 1 This focus is caused also by the fact that we rely on results of the project NO-REST(=Networking Organisations Research into Standards and Standardisation),
A systematic and strategic approach to develop standards for the service sector was initiated in Germany in the year 2000 with a large project Service Standards for Global Markets funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research 34.
, 2004.22 U. Schmoch, F. Laville, P. Patel, R. Frietsch, Linking Technology areas to Industrial Sectors, Final Report to the European commission, DG Research, Karlsruhe, 2003.23 K. Blind,
in The netherlands, Proceeding of the First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Standardization Research, Universität der Bundeswehr, Hamburg, 1997, pp. 311 333.33 H. J. De vries, Standardization:
page 12). 12 Path creation and path dependence studies are merged also in the Free University of Berlin doctoral programme on organisational paths of the semiconductor consortia 42.13 Research becomes doable
Each of these six functions houses scientific research and technology development. We want to point out that within the six functions attributed to a cell-focused laboratory on a chip,
and design houses Research device is picked up by someone Groups of heterogeneous actors coming together in a cluster The four options shown in italic where chosen to be discussed in more detail;
TUTS Working paper 2005.43 J. H. Fujimura, Constructing‘Doable'Problems in Cancer Research: Articulating Alignment, Soc.
‘Futur the German research dialogue',Research Evaluation 13 (3)( 2004) 143 153.3 R. Barre, Synthesis of technology foresight, in:
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Effie Amanatidou, Research and Innovation policy Analyst, P o box: 1698, Trilofos, P. C. 57500, Trilofos Thessalonikis, Greece.
Previous affiliations include the Science policy Research Unit (SPRU) at Sussex University, where he founded and led the EGIST (Evaluation of Government and Industry Strategies for Technology) group;
Further, empirical research does suggest that diversity prevails even inside universities: the performance of faculties or individual institutes/departments varies a lot.
an extensive statistical annex can be found in the original report for the DG Research, EC, on which this article draws.
commissioned by DG Research, EC. Comments on earlier versions by Andrea Bonaccorsi, Elie Faroult, János Gács, Luke Georghiou, Annamária Inzelt,
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Scott Cunningham received a Ph d. in Science, Technology and Innovation policy from the Science policy Research Unit.
b Department Urban Water management Research at Eawag, Switzerland c Institute of environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich, Switzerland d Competence Center Sustainability and Infrastructure Systems
Eckhard Störmer is a project leader at the Social science Research Department Cirus (innovation research in utility sectors) at The swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag.
and in the Nordic countries is carried out at VTT, namely the Nordic Energy Research Climate and Energy systems:
practices on the basis of European experience, VTT Research Notes, vol. 2174,2002,(in Finnish, abstract in English;
The Handbook of Technology foresight, PRIME Series on Research and Innovation policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2008.8 I. Nonaka, H. Takeutchi, The Knowledge-creating Company, Oxford university Press, New york, 1995.9
towards a new safety paradigm, Journal of Risk Research 10 (7)( 2007) 959 975 October 2007.
and Research Coordinator of innovation and innovation policy studies at VTT. His recent research work is related to the rationales of innovation policy, foresight of technologies (e g. transition towards sustainable energy systems), intellectual property rights,
b German Federal Ministry for Research and Education, BMBF, Germany c Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering, Germany d Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation research, Germany
the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) launched a new foresight process which aimed at four specific targets.
Foresight process Fully fledged foresight Bibliometrics Strategic partnerships Research alliances 1. Introduction In September 2007, the Federal German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) launched a new foresight process
Other institutions like the Technical University of Berlin, the Institute for Nanotechnology (INT) of the Research centre Karlsruhe, the RWTH Aachen, the Austrian Research centres Gmbh (ARC), Systems Research Division Dept
of users and investors concerning energy efficiency 50 Wearable computers 34 Electric cars for long distances 30 Research on illnesses which are induced by social disadvantage 30 New materials for radioactive ray
and use of new living beings with new properties by integrating artificial systems 29 Hydrogen technology systems 28 Research on illnesses caused by lifestyle 27 Affective Computing 26
4/8/2008.2 Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF)( ed.),Die Hightech-Strategie für Deutschland, Bonn
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Technologie (Federal Ministry for Research and Technology, BMFT (Ed.),Deutscher Delphi-Bericht zur Entwicklung von Wissenschaft und Technik (German Delphi Report on the Development
L. Georghiou (Ed.),The Handbook of Technology foresight, Concepts and Practice, PRIME Series on Research and Innovation policy, 2008, pp. 131 152.29 K. Cuhls, K. Blind, Knut
The Handbook of Technology foresight, Concepts and Practice, PRIME Series on Research and Innovation policy, 2008.32 S. Kuhlmann, et al.
She manages the consortium that runs the BMBF Foresight process for the German Federal Ministry for Research and Education.
Amina Beyer-Kutzner is responsible for the BMBF Foresight in the Federal Ministry for Research and Education
and since 2004 in the Department of Research Analysis, Research Communication and Science Coordination. Walter Ganz is director and member of the Leading Circle of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) in Stuttgart, Germany.
A close examination of a qualitative scenario project conducted by The netherlands Institute for Spatial Research identified three different and contradictory interpretations of the scenario axes employed 26.
their development and use, Sub-report 2. 1b of Synthesis and Assessment Product 2. 1 by the U s. Climate change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Department of energy
, Office of Biological & Environmental Research, Washington, 2007.18 J. Rosenhead, Robustness analysis: keeping your options open, in:
Wiley 1994.19 W. Ulrich, Critical heuristics of social systems design, European Journal of Operational Research 31 (3)( 1987) 276 283.20 M. B. L
and around the notion of Responsible Research and Innovation of nanotechnologies as an opportunity to develop support tools for exploring potential co-evolutions of nanotechnology and governance arrangements.
and around Responsible Research and Innovation of Nanotechnology. 2 That is why it became the subject of a research project
Research and innovation councils and programmes play a significant role in the development of science and are a central interface between politics and research.
but their structure varies significantly (EU DG Research 2005). It is difficult to obtain comparable statistics for research council funding activities on the scale of the European union (EU) or countries of the Organisation for Economic cooperation and Development (OECD). In Denmark,
The actors involved in developing the plan were primarily members of the research council and employees of the Research Agency.
The Research Agency played, in collaboration with the council, an important role in the definition of this communication format.
The Advisory Council for Energy Research (Det Rådgivende Energiforskningsudvalg REFU) is an advisory board for the Energy Authority and the Ministry of Economic and Business affairs.
Technical research Council Energy research programme Actors involved Programme management Research council Research Agency (secretariat) Energy Authority Core group in strategy processes Research council Research Agency (secretariat+strategy
Technollog and Innovation Partly the Confederation of Danish Industries Advisory Council for Energy Research Energy production companies Energy-technology companies Scientists Interest groupings/NGOS Target groups
Actor dialogues, partnershhip consensus seeking Advisory Council for Energy Research Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 05:09 03 december 2014 Foresight
EU DG Research. 2005. Final Report. Examining the design of national research programmes. Prepared by Optima Ltd, VDI/VDE-Innovation and Technik Gmbh, EC Contract Ref.
European commission Research Directorate General, STRATA Programme. Brussels: European communities Report EUR 20128 EN. Georghiou, L. 2001.
Danish Institute for Studies in Research and Research policy. Statens Teknisk-Videnskabelige Forskningsråd. 2002. Strategiplan 2003 2007.
the Ministry of Culture, Higher education and Research (MCHER) as the key policy centre with respect to Luxembourg research;
Research activities will mainly cover the topic of molecular diagnostics with a 5-year budget of¤140 million.
Research landscape‘Long list'of possible research domains Aims: Method: Input: Results: Phase1: Creating a Baseline Figure 2. Phases and steps of FNR Foresight.
Thematic field Research area Research domain Research axis Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Environmental sciences Global change and ecosystem Water management Drinking water
National priorities National priorities (Research areas)( Research domains) Innovation in services Business service design and innovation Fostering the economic and legal environment for Innovation performance and development of the financial systems
An exception was the Biomedical domain where the focus of the initial Foresight results lay largely on Public health, Regenerative Medicine and Translational Research and
and strategy process was positioned. 3. 1.‘Systems Research in the Urban area':'groundwork for RTI policy The strategy process could draw on solid grounds.
In addition to a number of specific studies, it built specifically on the results of the large-scale research programme‘Systems Research in the Urban area'that provided the analytical groundwork
5) 200 SMES taking part in projects of the EU's Seventh Research Framework programme (FP7;(
3) Research and the city communication, learning and public awareness: The three terms form a catchphrase to express the serious interest in strengthening the critical public dialogue about RTI, both within Vienna and on the international stage.
2) Expansion of the‘Research and the City'campaign. Under the slogan‘Vienna research in dialogue',the City will address essential contemporary and future issues in the field of science, research and technology.
In fact, it was a lucky coincidence that the foresight process‘Wien denkt Zukunft'could draw on a comprehensive analytical basis provided by the research programme‘Systems Research in the Urban area
Notes on contributors Matthias Weber is Head of Research, Technology and Innovation (RTI) Policy Unit at Austrian Institute of technology (AIT) invienna.
Barbara Grunewald has been Research Associate at Austrian Institute of technology (AIT) in the Department of Foresight & Policy development since 2005.
Linking Research and Practice',Brighton, 11 13 september 2006. Cassingena Harper, J, . and L. Georghiou. 2005.
Report to the Austrian Council for Research and Technology development. Vienna: ARC Systems Research. Smith, K. 2000.
Innovation as a systemic phenomenon: rethinking the role of policy. Enterprise&innovation Management Studies 1, no. 1: 73 102.
http://www. wiendenktzukunft. at/downloads/strategie english. pdf The results of the research programme‘Systems Research in the Urban area'can be found at:
Research Evaluation 13, no. 3: 143 53. Cunliffe, A. 2005. The need for reflexivity in public administration.
Planning Practice & Research 19, no. 2: 195 209. Shipley, R, . and R. T. Newkirk. 1999.
FC Allen Gngineering FC Current Collector Mitsubishi SOFC Ceramic Fuel cells FC Interconnect Korea Inst of Energy Research SOFC Interconnect Gas Research institute SOFC Intreconnect
The Vice-president for Research at Georgia Tech asks me to benchmark this university's SOFC research against the leading American universities for a presentation this noon.
changing tools, changing roles, Information Outlook 5 (3)( 2001) 24 30.5 A l. Porter, A. Kongthon, J.-C. Lu, Research profiling:
What You Need from Technology information Products, Research-Technology management, 2004 (Nov 8 H. de Bruijn, A l. Porter, The education of a technology policy analyst-to process management, Technology analysis and Strategic management 16 (2)( 2004
and Technology policy Council of Finland (STPC) should develop by the end June 2006 a national strategy for establishing Strategic Centres of Excellence in Research and Innovation.
(which has been renamed as the Research and Innovation policy Council as of January 2009) is to assist the Government and its ministries by addressing, for instance,
Research foresight: priority-setting in science. London: Pinter. Rask, M. 2008. Foresight balancing between increasing variety and productive convergence.
+31 053 489 3353/3350.5 PRIME=Policies for Research and Innovation in the Move towards the European research area, European Network of Excellence (2004 2009;
For technological research as for scientific research, complementarities will refer to the need a researcher faces to develop collaborations in order to produce results.
but these may be reduced with increasing empirical research that improves the error margins. PAGE 284 jforesight jvol. 14 NO. 4 2012 2. Known unknowns.
We note that the opportunities that these scientific research results (straight growth deposition), the prototype and the proof of compatibility brought to the field are emerging irreversibilities.
used in nonvolatile memories Nantero as a surviving central player in realising nanotube applications in nonvolatile memories Nanotubes used in nonvolatile memories Possibilities where opened up by scientific research results that took away hurdles in using nanotubes for electronic devices
Further, actual FTA projects exploit results of scientific research and also use scientific methods when analysing the past
Indeed, empirical research shows that more and more companies have opened up their innovation processes and started to cooperate with others with regard to innovation 12.
and prioritising of research by the National Funding Agency (see Netherlands Organizzatio for Scientific research, 2006).
Netherlands Organization for Scientific research 2006. Science Valued! NWO Strategy 2007 2010. Available from<http://www. nwo. nl/files. nsf/pages/NWOA 6PXJ9W ENG/$file/wetens chap gewaarderd lowres eng. pdf>,last accessed 1 june 2009.
Section 3 will draw primarily on recent empirical research presented at the FTA 2011 Conference, 1
Capturing new types of FTA systems in the light of specific circumstances This section introduces the conceptual framework for subseqquen analysis of recent empirical research on FTA systems.
Towards this end, we examine in Section 3. 1 how recent empirical research papers, including those presented at the FTA 2011 Conference,
Empirical research highlights a diversity of FTA APPROACHES and systems in practice, which reflect the differren mixes of transformations, governance and organisatioona modes.
the responsible governments focus on the quality of scientific research (Bruno and Van til 2011). Embedding foresight in transnational research programming. 205 19.
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