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and raises a challenge for the FTA COMMUNITY. The general consensus in the session was that FTA is a driver
broad-scope FTA COMMUNITY and the more established, traditionally focused RA community. Loikkanen et al. another Finnish team, bring this novel focus on tools further into the interface with policy approaches in their timely paper on the Role of Technology barometer in Assessing Past and Future development of National Innovation system.
and 2) there is a need to share the information with the international FTA COMMUNITY in order to further develop the ideas.
Feedback from the international FTA COMMUNITY and cross-border cooperation is needed to direct the development efforts effectively,
which to move forward which fell broadly into the categories of building the capacity and connectedness of the FTA COMMUNITY on the one hand and improving engagement with users on the other 11.
They call for a better understanding of issues to be considered by the FTA COMMUNITY so that it can support the quest for new forms of governance.
Continuing the call for the FTA COMMUNITY to move on from identifying priorities, the paper concludes by advocating the need for embedding forward-looking participatory practices in overall processes of strategic policy and decision making.
which ought to be addressed by the FTA COMMUNITY with the aim of supporting new forms of governance.
However, the discussion about multiple stakeholders'participation in public policy and corporate decision making has received very little attention from the FTA COMMUNITY who have taken for granted that FTA ACTIVITIES are participative.
The current paper addresses Future-oriented technology analyses (FTA) in the context of a better understanding of issues that ought to be considered by the FTA COMMUNITY
Analysis of the relationship between governance and each of the three pillars poses a number of questions to the FTA COMMUNITY that reflect on the potential impacts of FTA ACTIVITIES in governance.
Setting a new landscape for the FTA, the paper concludes with those issues where the FTA COMMUNITY is starting to devote attention,
The later discussion intends to enable the FTA COMMUNITY to reflect on how FTA ACTIVITIES can support the move towards more democratic societies and the potential impacts of FTA in governance.
The paper concludes with those issues in which the FTA COMMUNITY is starting to devote attention to as well as those it still ought to consider. 2. History Governance is an outcome of the continual battle between risk and regulation.
One of the main challenges for the FTA COMMUNITY is to support such a shift by embedding forward-looking participatory practices into strategic decision making. 8. Conclusions:
In the 2006 FTA Conference, the FTA COMMUNITY realised the need to address the imperative of improving the two-way linkage between knowledge and the building of a‘common world'.
The ability of the FTA COMMUNITY to garner sufficient credibility, legitimacy and authority to contribute to such global agendas is still a concern.
It does so by indicating that the time has come for the FTA COMMUNITY to go beyond the current major focus of identifying
1. The FTA COMMUNITY is one of the most capable assemblies of Strategic foresight expertise, and would it not be useful to poll this group for Foresight insights?
Comparison of FTA COMMUNITY insights-domains content with others sources of Foresight trends, drivers, etc. Table 1 STEEP map for the Domains of Interest.
the FTA COMMUNITY, be able to escape from the curse of Cassandra to speak the truth, or at least to be able to present a picture of plausible possible futures,
He drew the attention of the FTA COMMUNITY, for instance, to causal layered analysis, which aims to create transformative spaces for the creation of alternative futures (Inayatullah 1998).
Received 14 may 2011 Received in revised form 9 july 2012 Accepted 3 september 2012 Available online 8 november 2012 The FTA COMMUNITY relies on a set of disciplines and methods,
and misconceptions within the FTA COMMUNITY are amongst the factors undermining further methodological integration. The paper concludes by suggesting some steps
It is acknowledged that, within the FTA COMMUNITY (which comprises Foresight, Forecasting and Technology assessment), 1 foresight practitioners have concentrated traditionally on participatory methods based on qualitative data,
Another part of the FTA COMMUNITY, constituted by Forecasting and Technology assessment practitioners, holds an opposite standpoint, considering qualitative and participatory approaches as a second best option, to which we are compelled somehow to refer until adequate quantitative methods arise.
Whilst these two branches of the FTA COMMUNITY operate largely separately, in the social sciences the mixing-methods debate has advanced considerably 2 6
as well as on the reasons why, such combination, within the FTA COMMUNITY, seems to proceed at a lower rate than in other fields.
although the reflections in this paper originate from inside the FTA COMMUNITY, they are addressed to a broader audience, based on the awareness that other branches of social sciences,
Despite the lack of systematic investigation, there are clear signs of interest from the FTA COMMUNITY in combining methods.
not only within the FTA COMMUNITY, but more generally also in social science where most reports of mixed methods studies report either parallel
(which is confined not to the FTA COMMUNITY) on the type of knowledge that qualitative and quantitative methodologies can produce and on the value of combining them 45 49.
Still today the different FTA COMMUNITIES are perceived as rather competing than collaborating in exploring the future.
Misconceptions within the FTA COMMUNITY In order to better understand the pros and cons of different methodologies, three implicit misconceptions within the FTA COMMUNITY need to be addressed.
Firstly, it is assumed often that models belong exclusively to the quantitative domain and have objective predictive power.
and lack of trust occurs not only within the FTA COMMUNITY, but also amongst its clients (in particular policy-makers.
This is however not what the FTA COMMUNITY is set out to provide. Similarly, decision-makers can claim that the wrong people were involved in a Delphi survey,
This pathway of small wins may also have potential for increasing trust, commitment and shared understanding between methodologically different FTA COMMUNITIES,
within and beyond the FTA COMMUNITIES. 6. Conclusions and further steps Although systematic integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in FTA is not a standard practice so far,
and joint practice between the different FTA COMMUNITIES. As this is rooted in deep epistemological differences, it can hardly be reconciled on pure theoretical grounds.
which can only be reached through strong interactions within the FTA COMMUNITY and between it and the relevant stakeholders from education, policy and society at large.
the FTA COMMUNITY eponymously and in practice, takes as its anchor point the role of technology and by implication the conduct and consequences of research and innovation.
This biannual event is becoming a reference within the FTA COMMUNITIES to increase understanding of the advances occurring in the field of FTA for academics
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