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Conventional forecasting approaches with their aim of predicting the future were based on a linear understanding of processes of socio-technical change that is simply an inappropriate representation of reality and thus misleading rather than enlightening with respect to informing decisions.

of the scope of forward-looking exercises can be interpreted as a reflection of the abandoning of linear models of technological change and the adoption of a systemic understanding of socio-technical change.

It is known commonly that socio-technical change is tied to a wide range of uncertainties and ambiguities that cannot be anticipated fully (cf. above).

notions of technical change were developed in the context of the firm. In his seminal paper, Dosi 34 argued that technical paradigms direct activities in technology development

A technological paradigm embodies strong prescriptions on the directions of technical change to pursue and those to neglect.

Effie Amanatidou holds an MSC in Technical change & Industrial Strategy from PREST/Manchester Institute of Innovation research University of Manchester (UK) and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics (Greece.

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Oxford UP, Oxford, 2005.13 C. Freeman, The economics of technical change:

Evolutionary theories of technical changes emphasise that for innovation one should think of variation and selection (and retention of those selections.

evolutionary models of technical change; the innovation chain+,and endogenous futures. This framework which can help in structuring large amounts of heterogeneous data,

what they have to offer. 2. 1. Lacunae in evolutionary models of technical change How do innovations come to be selected from a number of possible options;

Technical change and Economic theory, Pinter, London, 1988.26 P. A. David, Clio and the economics of QWERTY, Am.

In Technical change and economic theory, ed. G. Dosi, C. Freeman, R. R. Nelson, G. Silverberg and L. Soete, 221 38.

The history of innovations and technical change shows that‘heroic innovators'are located often in the downstream.

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,

The sociology of expectations has detailed three forces of expectations in the dynamics of technical change: legitimation, heuristic guidance and coordinattion First,

and socio-technical change. Minna Halonen is a research scientist at VTT. Her research focusses on foresight and socio-technical change

especially on organisational learning theories, network development, and impact evaluation. She has an MSC in Applied Geography from La Sapienza University of Rome.

Johanna Kohl is a senior scientist and a team leader in Foresight and Socio-Technical change team at VTT.

Nina Wessberg is a senior scientist in Foresight and Socio-Technical change team at VTT. Her current research interests are especially in sustainable energy solutions at the society.

The concept of national innovation systems is rooted in evolutionary economic theorizing on socio-technical change 33 35.

Impact of fta Approaches on Policy and Decision-making, Seville, 2006.24 J. Hausschildt, S. Salomo, Innovations Management, 4th ed.,Vahlen, Munich, 2007.25 R. Solow, Technical change

Studies in Socio-Technical change. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Boczowski, P J 2004. The mutual shaping of technology and sociiet in videotex newspapers: