Changes to these deeply embedded standards and practices will require both time and continuing commitment.
and a special issue of Technological forecasting and Social Change 5. The second Conference in 2006 enlarged the geographical base of participants,
This led to a book published by Springer 6 and special issues in Technological forecasting and Social Change 7,
Recent crises and the threat of major longer-term changes are fostering a view that business as usual approaches are not capable of addressing these challenges.
The 2004 EU-US Seminar, Technological forecasting and Social Change 72 (9)( 2005. 6 Cagnin, et al.
impact on policy and decision making The 2006 FTA INTERNATIONAL SEVILLE SEMINAR, Technological forecasting and Social Change 75 (4)( 2008.
such as anticipating changes, taking the user perspective into account, fostering participation and building networks. Such an understanding is in contrast to its perception as a mere storytelling technique generating oversimplified visions without the backing of rigorous analysis. Therefore
foresight methods represent an emerging approach that works with few technical constraints and shows an increased adaptability to environmental changes.
and is resistant to change and transformation, the article argues for equipping legal activities with a set of tools,
Swiss Expert for the International Energy Agency (IEA) Demand-Side Management (DSM) Task XXIV on Behaviour Change,
and predict fundamental societal changes was the most often stated reason for the inaccuracies.‘‘‘‘The change in the labor force due to increased participation of women was one of the commonly quoted examples of the model's inability to properly account for travel behaviour''.
''Such factors can be considered as known unknowns: it is known that transport is derived demand and is highly dependent on developments in society
and their changes over the course of time. For transparent decision making procedures it is crucial to make preferences
''Technological forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 72, pp. 1064-9. Grunwald, A. 2007),‘Working towards sustainable development in the face of uncertainty and incomplete knowledge'',Journal of Environmental policy and Planning, Vol. 9
introduction to section 2'',Technological forecasting and Social Change, Vol. 77, pp. 917-23. About the authors Jens Schippl is a Senior researcher at the Institute for Technology assessment and Systems analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of technology.
and most importantly lead to better decision-making and policy making (and perhaps contribute to use of theories of social change in foresight).
''But the rules do not have to be fixed they can change according changes in the system too (for a driver a late night in a bad area may change the first rule to‘‘don't stop for anyone''.
The implication is that foresight techniques must be able to accommodate changes in the basic rules.
Foresight techniques need to enable a vision of changes in the essential profile of a system. 3. The interactions between the component parts of a complex system
VOL. 14 NO. 4 2012 jforesight jpage 295 Systems can also be unexpectedly very stable highly resistant to change by policy intervention-or very unstable such as where a policy intervention leads to stream of unexpected changes
once any change has happened, a system cannot go back to where it was as the initial conditions have changed now.
and changes (using the taxies example customers may decide to share taxies to different destinations as the norm).
A change in any part of the system even in a single element, produces reactions and changes in associated elements and the environment.
Therefore, the effects of any one intervention in the system cannot be predicted with complete accuracy, because the system is always responding
and adapting to changes and the actions of individuals. Mikulecky (2001) Complexity is the property of a real world system that is manifest in the inability of any one formalism being adequate to capture all its properties.
Whatever we say about the future has an implicit idea of change underlying any inference
and most theories of social change have implied an underlying pattern, although we are not always aware of it.
complexity potentially offers us the closest we have ever come to having an overall theory of social change.
and return the excess change. By simply thinking about a possible future (the purchase of the flat), you have changed your frame.
In addition to using Reframing to enable a change in the way we see, think about, and understand things,
For example, emergence is a process of change and embracing it can mean choosing to respond, continuously, to that change, sympathetically and synergistically rather than a controlling, combative style:
embracing not resisting. Another way is to accept that change is the force of control rather than being the result of controlling intentions.
In this case, embracing emergence can mean supporting and encouraging the current situation, and its emergent change, in a way that ensures that generally desirable outcomes will thrive, irrespective of
what those specific outcomes might be. It could also be about accepting that it is the route being travelled, rather than the unknowable destination, that matters,
Such policy making requires iterative monitoring of the emerging changes, to ensure that the desirable ones are supported and the undesirable ones diverted.
and outcomes (futures) resulting from a change process, rather than working with (in) interactions of the systems components itself.
and why future disruptive changes may happen in a system. It also provides insight into how foresight techniques need to be developed to perform better in complex systems to enable better decision-making and policy making.
and the essential profile of a system can change, where the‘‘rules''can be laws and policies,
but the structure of the economy can change. B Low-carbon technology will improve significantly in all sectors by 2050.
and prevent change, backcasting aims to liberate images of the future from today's mental fixations and dominating trends.
Some factors enable the changes thrived for, while others deter it and need to be resolved.
value-laden issues, increase social learning and in themselves advance social change (Robinson et al. 2011, p. 757).
considerable changes in attitudes and habits of both the citizens as well as different industries are required. The areas that will face the biggest pressure to change are energy intensive industry,
polluting energy industry (especially peat energy), transport and logistics, construction, meat production and travelling. As for the public's approval for the actions needed to prevent the unwanted effects of climate change
and needed changes for current practises caused by each scenario. The results of these calculations are presented in the Government Foresight report (Prime minister's Office, 2009, pp. 160-184.
Further refinement in the changes in the operational environment that affect the possibilities to reach the emission goals of 2050 would have been needed to make the foundation for attaching numerical information more solid.
a cross-impact analysis to see the possible implications that changes in major elements of each of the scenarios might bring,
continues Change in values Not a great change, the biggest change is increased the willingness to adapt
and take advantage of solutions produced by the development in ICT Transformation away from culture of mass-consumption.
Responsibility for one's own welfare and actions has increased Very little change: preserving equal rights for everyone to choose one's own way of living (where and how to live, what,
The most important deviation from the original results was made the change to scenario B. In the original material produced by the scenario process facilitated by FFRC
A brief look backward and forward'',Technological forecasting & Social Change, Vol. 78 No. 9, pp. 1712-9. PAGE 314 jforesight jvol. 14 NO. 4 2012 Mannermaa, M
recent progress in the use of participatory backcasting approaches for sustainability research'',Technological forecasting & Social Change, Vol. 78, pp. 756-68.
Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1. Introduction Assessing emerging technologies is a necessary,
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1095 2. Method:
because it R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1096 has changed the perception
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1097 technological field, with its dedicated journals, conferences and communities.
changes at societal level have a slower pace than at the level of individual research groups 7. Fig. 2 shows
H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1098 3. Case: nonvolatile memories based on nanotubes Before explaining the details about nonvolatile memories based on nanotubes,
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1099 other hand there are growing concerns about the development
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1100 Nantero (US Patent No. 20030165074.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1101 However, there are other voices that agitate against this.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1102 (Korea) did just that.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1103 reported the latter method in 2001 26.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1104 3. 2. Tracing agenda building
and start to work on solving the problems at R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1105 hand.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1106 These insights and empirical findings give the opportunity to trace emerging irreversibilities
and nonvolatile memories based on nanotubes (Fig. 8). We have shown that results of research groups directly give rise to expectations for promising applications and change the agendas for the future.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1107 As mentioned in Section 2,
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1108 development of dusefult applications of technology, CTA
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1109 5 H. Van Lente, Forceful futures:
34 J. W. Schot, A. Rip, The past and future of constructive technology assessment, Technology Forecasting and Social Change 54 (1997) 251 268.
R. O. van Merkerk, H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1110 35 F. W. Geels, Towards sociotechnical scenarios
H. van Lente/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1094 1111 1111
Linking territorial foresight and urban planning Jose'Miguel Ferna'ndez Gu ell and Leticia Redondo Abstract Purpose This article aims to show the opportunity
such as anticipating changes, fostering participation and building networks, in contrast to its perception as a mere storytelling technique that generates oversimplified visions without the backing of rigorous analysis. Research limitations/implications In order to boost the perception of scenario design as an added value instrument for urban planners
However, the profound socioeconomic changes experienced by most cities in the 1960's and 1970's produced gross mistakes in urban predictions.
since structural changes were making traditional paradigms obsolete. Confronted with this situation, most urban planners recognised their impotence for drawing reliable predictions,
Change drivers affecting social attitude toward SD were grouped into two axes: 1. Vertical axis. Represented the potential alternative responses by society in the future to the SD concept.
Increase of per capita gross domestic product (GDP) or other measures of aggregate income, typically reported as the annual rate of change in real GDP Environment Selective collection of solid waste.
so that society can adapt quickly to changes. B Promote an educational system that transmits the values of sustainability, innovation, social commitment and solidarity.
B The transformation of the planning process will require reciprocal changes in the legal framework and the governance model.
Overcoming this challenge will mean undertaking significant changes in day-to-day habits, as well as in governance and business models.
Therefore, foresight methods represent an emerging approach that works with few technical constraints and shows an increased adaptability to environmental changes.
and is resistant to change and transformation, the article argues for equipping legal activities with a set of tools,
lawyers and jurists tend to construct legal systems that are overly rigid and, as such, resistant to change and transformation.
and decision makers to test the prospective impacts and consequences of a given change in legislation.
The effects of legal changes and reforms could thus be anticipated and tested in safe and experimental environments.
such as the special editions of Technological forecasting and Social Change vol. 75 (4); Technological Analysis and Strategic management vol. 20 (3;
Technological forecasting and Social Change, vol. 72 (9; as well as to the publication of the book Cagnin et al.
which acts as a powerful tool for the exploration of the long-term future of closely interacting policy-related issues (including human development, social change and environmental sustainability).
Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 other hand, decision support and policy making require information on the potential consequences of the introduction of new technologies before they are implemented widely,
and from the change in economic and societal patterns initiated by the almost ubiquitous usage of these technologies.
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1113 Most funding organisations or contract awarders require valid, scientifically sound, knowledge-based, often quantitative,
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1114 ordinated by the Europa ische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1115 considered as the most important bridge between basic research and marketable products and processes.
and the structural changes in technology, economy and society possibly initiated by them will have considerable consequences.
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1116 The term droadmapt is used widely, starting from graphical representations of technology development paths and their application environments up to detailed and ambitious
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1117 be as specific and reliable as necessary to be the basis for a valid and sound technology assessment
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1118 Besides this, a successful implementation of this concept could also help to overcome some of the argumentative asymmetries that can be found in many debates about chances
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1119 purposes, and what further benefits of the roadmapping process beyond structuring the field of nanotechnology can be expected. 5. Summary
/Technological forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 1112 1121 1120 2 T. Fleischer, A. Grunwald, Technikgestaltung fu r mehr Nachhaltigkeit Anforderungen an die Technikfolgenabscha
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and systemic changes A series of conferences on future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) has been organised by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies of the European commission's Joint research Centre over the past years.
The fourth editiio (2011) of the International Seville Conference on Future-Orientedtechnologyanalysis (FTA) focused its attention on processes of transformative change in response to Grand Societal Challennges
It is these fundamental changes that give rise to the main challenges of today'sworld. His position may differ in many regards from the views expressed in recent political discourses,
and would need to complement the technological perspective that has dominated traditionally FTA. 2 It is against the background of such transformative changes that this special issue looks at the fundamental possibilities
He looks at corporate organisations that recently faced major changes and increasing turbulence in their external environment in order to explore how decision makeer select
and address change within the networks in which it is embedded, using FTA thinking to shape a pathway of a business towards sustainable development.
In this model, innovation occurs when social practice changes. The history of innovations and technical change shows that‘heroic innovators'are located often in the downstream.
Innovative ideas abound, parallel innovation is unintended frequent uses become drivers of development, and socially and economically important innovations are invented often several times before they eventually start to have real impact.
At that point, social practices start to change. Messaging becomes a key driver for development and profit in the telecom industry,
Innovation as creative evolution According to Schumpeter, innovation can be defined as a historic and irreversible change in the way of doing things.
Although Schumpeter went on to further define innovation as those changes in the production function that cannot be decomposed into infinitesimal steps,
Technical change as élan vital Innovation thus creates phenomenologically new domains of being and action. But what directs
and define technical change as a specifically human form of élan vital. For Bergson, élan vital was the basic characteristic of all life,
as evolutionary change is strongly underdetermined by selection (Varela, Thompson, and Rosch 1991,195). In this regard, there is no difference between, for example, business organisations and biological organisms.
introducing novelty that irreversibly changes natural systems and makes their predictive models obsolete. Implications for foresight and future-oriented analysis What are the practical implications of the above conceptual analysis for foresight and futureorieente analysis?
In the activitytheooreti hierarchy, the focus of change is on the operational level as new ways of doing old things.
and how the entities and their interaction modes change as a result of these interactions. The ontological uncertainty of van Asselt and Rotmans could in this classification be defined as truth uncertainty. 3. The need for text communication, paging,
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It follows that disruptive change is a prime focus for FTA, a highly contentious statement since many of the most disruptive changes in the Earths'and human history have happened with FTA nowhere to be seen.
The immense disruption caused by the change from an oxygen poor to an oxygen rich atmosphere is one example.
Disruptions of consequence in a lower league but huge nevertheless, abound. Exemplars are the recent shifting of parts of Japan by some 3m, an alteration in the tilt of the Earths'axis and in the speed of rotation,
but slower pace of ecological change is stark, and can be devastatingly disruptive while occurring over decades or centuries,
and technology are the prime movers in disruptive change: here, it is assumed that they are not and nor should they be considered as such.
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Functions for policy Description Informing policy Generating insights regarding the dynamics of change, future challenges and options,
and transmitting them to policy-makers Facilitating policy implementation Enhancing the capacity for change within a given policy field by building a common awareness of current and future challenges,
but rather a change or creation of a new reality (Guice 1999). In other words, expectations are performative:
The sociology of expectations has detailed three forces of expectations in the dynamics of technical change: legitimation, heuristic guidance and coordinattion First,
Expectations will not automatiicall lead to change; it is first necessary that others move accordingly. Berkhout, therefore, suggests viewing expectations as‘bids'.
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namely, when they are not confident that they can predict what the major changes are or will be (Duncan 1972;
and refers to the inability to understand how the components of the environment might change (e g. in the case of the automotive industry, the driver of change of ecological concern by public policy-makers in Europe:
when the company realised that the chemical industry was going through major structural changes which made accurate and reliable predictions extremely difficult.
The outputs from foresight activities provide a wide basis of information which explores longaan medium-term changes in customers'needs and lifestyles,
The growing pace of technology developmment and the continuous emergence of disruptive changes in customer needs have contributed together to greatly increased dynamism in these industries and for these firms.
as major changes in technologies and ensuing customer demand are again continuously scrambling the boundaries of the business.
which summarises the evolution of changes in society, lifestyle, and customer needs in terms of both markets and technologies.
At Siemens, too, foresight activities go beyond identifying emerging changes in technology and customer needs to encompass the exploitation of the new market opportunities inherent in such changes.
Initially, one of the company business groups is targeted as the‘buyer'for a specific market opportunity,
So far, scholars in strategic management have unexplored left a key issue of environmental change: this regards the impact of drivers of change on the identity of the main activities of the value chain and the main components of the business (micro) environment, that is, rivals, suppliers, customers, substitute products,
Let us consider in particular such a driver of change as the convergence of multimedia technologies:
because they helped managers focus on emerging forces of change. Scenarios provided an organic framework for thinking about how these forces could develop in the next 10 or 20 years.
and response options to environmental changes, that is, to eventually address state, effect, and response uncertainty. Discontinuous drivers of change typically stem from technology-driven industries
and Phd graduates. 3. Roadmaps consist of representations of interconnected nodes of major changes and events in some selected fields of the external environment, such as science, technology, and markets.
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and address change within the networks in which it is embedded, using future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) thinking to shape the business's path towards sustainable development.
disruptive and transformative change; FTA and complex ecosystems 1. Introduction Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) thinking is used in an explanation
and address change in the networks within which they are embedded. The behaviour of these networks is analysed from the perspective of sympoietic complex systems.
and respond to transforming disruptive change. The proposed management framework and the roles that FTA can play are introduced then comparing networks to complex sympoietic systems.
organisational change, fair and ethical negotiations; fair work conditions; training and education of human resources;
therefore, able to deal only with incremental changes rather than with disruptive ones. 3. Maturity model:
The framework is dynamic to incorporate changes along the way and enable its own evolution following the organisation's
what enable the system to adapt to disruptive changes. Rather than looking for one generic business model for sustainability
the firm will be armed then with better and clearer opportunities for an evolutionary leap in sustainability performance and to deal with disruptive change, in alignment with the partners in its network.
Management system FTA roles Decide to be in business FTA supports mutual learning and shared understanding of network actors'views and feelings as well as of risks, opportunities, system capabilities and dynamic changes, all of
to change in attitudes and behaviours and to joint-up decisions for change in order to steer solutions to emerging challenges through an inclusive approach as well as further experimentation
focus on processes and activities planning-Change factors as processes and activities interdependence-Decision based on risk/reward-Integration starts;
despite changes in the environment or to adapt their identity to fit changes. The above descriptions present a useful heuristic to complex systems and the interactions between the dimensions of sustainable development
Social change implies that people within a society must change: this happens either through encounters outside the specific social system or via reflections through language (Maturana and Varela 1997.
and these change as the environment changes. In other words, an individual adapts to his/her environment to avoid disintegration.
this enables change towards a common vision using tools which can support firms through the process to shape business sustainable development throughout their networks of relationships.
and manage disruptive and transformative changes. The kind of dialogue supported throughftaprovides a newparadigm able to deal with unpredictability
and changes and improvements possible Partnerships Partnerships selection; building; and leveraging Motivation Motivational channels and processes selection;
and manage disruptive and transformative changes, allowing network partners to evolve together and creating an evolutionary leap in sustainability performance.
large and small, relating to long-term directions of change in the business environment. He has negotiated technology licences
The ten stages of change. Nursing Management 21, no. 4: 33 38. Porter, M. E. 1980.
Match your change strategy to your organization's maturity. Nonprofit World 21, no. 5: 19 20.
whether or not to be in business (changes needed) according to competitive and environmental changes and the range of feedback the firm is able to build.
Furthermore it is time to define a vision for sustainable development to be pursued in alignment with the seven dimensions of sustainability,
as a consequence, processes of innovation and the changes needed for survival and to sustain competitive responsible advantages in the future.
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