and implementation of an embedded foresight process that was organized in the ERA NET program on wood material sciences 8. Building on the experiences from this process,
Within the ERA NETS, the general objectives of an embedded foresight process can be defined as i) vision-building for clarifying shared interests and joint benefits of international collaboration,
At best, embedded foresight can overcome some of the administrative barriers in the preparation of international programs;
and embedded foresight activities that help RTD stakeholders recognize how the benefits of international collaboration can outweigh the efforts needed to overcome regulatory, institutional, administrative and cultural barriers.
It is against this background that we describe experiences from the implementation of an embedded foresight process in Woodwisdom-Net, one of the ERA NETS.
More specifically, the consultation processes sought to respond to the general objectives of embedded foresight in the following ways, among others:
Manag. 14 (2)( 2002) 183 200.7 A. Salo, J. P. Salmenkaita, Embedded foresight in RTD programs, Int. J. Technol.
such as the concepts of adaptive and Embedded foresight, and how does expected the impact relate to these conceptual developments?
Embedded foresight in RTD programs. International Journal of Technology Policy and Management 2, no. 2: 167 93.
Hence, we exclude from our analyses Embedded foresight or scanning activities which are performed as regular operations.
As an example of embedded foresight, Brummer et al. indicate three roles for such an application of foresight:(
In this context, embedded foresight activities promote the development of internal collaboration. Cariola and Rolfo link this to an evolution from hierarchical organisational structures with tangible assets to network knowledge-based organisational forms as a backdrop to the formulation of innovation policy 36.
‘‘We have moved from the spectacular mountains of individual foresight studies to the range of foothills of distributed and embedded foresight projects, less visible but probably far greater in volume''.
Foresight and decision-making Decision-makers at BASF seamlessly embedded foresight activities in the strategy formulation process. Scenarios are combined usually with the formulation and evaluation of strategic options,
The paper describes the embedded foresight process implemented to achieve a shared vision-building among different stakeholders, and the shaping of new research and technology development networks in European-wide innovation policy coordination.
or when the research and innovation systems and capacities of the countries involved are highly diverse. 5. Conclusions Recent efforts in transnational research programming indicate that the mobilising effect of embedded foresight activities can lead to novel networking and cross-feeding of research and innovation
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