structural change

Structural change

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and anticipate structural change 15. Clark 16 considers how market forces shape technological hierarchies, and how such hierarchies in turn shape the market

Overall, the successful conduct of the Foresight exercise and its implementation, together with all the other ongoing structural changes, indicate a growing maturity of the Luxembourg STI environment, particularly around public governance.

Estonia and Malta) with the explicit aim of the eforesee project as being‘‘to examine the potential role of foresight in dealing with the structural changes to the economy that accompany the accession process,

and the participants and operators of foresight exercises who confront the realities of the need for structural change and a process-oriented approach.

7. 2. FTA for corporate decision making The challenges faced by corporations reflect the structural changes taking place in the economy and society.

since structural changes were making traditional paradigms obsolete. Confronted with this situation, most urban planners recognised their impotence for drawing reliable predictions,

and the structural changes in technology, economy and society possibly initiated by them will have considerable consequences.

Microelectronics, long waves and world structural change: New perspectives for developing countries. World Development 13, no. 3: 441 63.

when the company realised that the chemical industry was going through major structural changes which made accurate and reliable predictions extremely difficult.

iii) rigorous assessment of coverage of dimensions of change to take into account possibly unrecognised/hidden structural changes,

Rigorous assessment of coverage of dimensions of change, to foster the explicit consideration of possibly unrecognised/hidden structural changes Extended openness for diversity,

In particular, the following four features served to enable the discovery of structural change in innovation: Inductive foresight approach Visual inspiration Assessment of coverage of dimensions of change Extended openness for diversity (prolonged divergence.

it does not enable the recognition of structural change and long-term transition emerging from within the system.

These two visions were excluded thereafter from further interpretation. 2. 3. Assessment of coverage of dimensions of change A third innovative feature developed within INFU to underpin the capture of structural change is the application of a framework of dimensions of change at the very beginning of the project.

The framework developed within the INFU project supported an analysis of structural changes hinted at by several visions.

the framework supported the extraction of the following structural changes in innovation patterns 30:1) Mediation and co-ordination:

Actors who considered a structural change as a positive transition werewilling to be involved in the further development of the visions.

while INFU may have been successful in developing diverse visions pointing at potential structural change, the next issue that will have to be tackled is the use of such transformative visions in actually managing transformative transition processes 34,35. 3 E g.

in order to prepare and sensitise for using FTA in preparation of structural changes, and to prepare firms and governments accordingly.