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(DG JRC-IPTS), E-41092 Seville, Spain Received 20 february 2005 The contribution included in this special issue builds on material presented to the first EU US Scientific Seminar
special issue on technology foresight in press. 494 V. Brummer et al.//Technological forecasting & Social Change 75 (2008) 483 495 4 TFAMWG Technology Futures analysis Methods Working group, Technology futures analysis:
and the editors of this special issue are acknowledged gratefully. References 1 P. A. David, Europe's Universities and Innovation Past, Present and Future, SIEPR Discussion paper No. 06-10,2006. 2 EC, The role of universities in the Europe
This special issue of TFSC presents a provocative alignment of papers designed to begin the probing of these fundamental questions about the future and future-oriented technology analysis (FTA.
of which this special issue for Technological forecasting and Social Change consists of the selected papers with particular emphasis on methodological aspects of FTA,
thus following the example of the first special issue from the previous edition of the Conference 2. This issue offers the reader a unique opportunity to travel with the editors on a journey of discovery where new approaches to the development of policies for advancing societal
To conclude this special issue we welcome the column From My Perspective of the Founder and Editor-In-chief of this journal and one of the key participants of the FTA 2008 Seville Conference, Professor Harold A. Linstone.
We also thank the editors of the special issues and the reviewers for their insightful comments.
, J. Hertin, Foresight futures scenarios, Developing and Applying a Participative Strategic planning Tool, Greener Management International (37 Special issue on Foresighting for Development), 2002, pp. 37 52.27 G
insights from the FORLEARN mutual learning process, Technology analysis & Strategic management, Special issue FTA Seminar 2006,2008, pp. 369 387.19 E. A. Eriksson, K. M. Weber, Adaptive foresight:
Finally we would like to thank the reviewers and editors of this special issue for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.
Special issue on Nanoscale research, Res. Policy 36 (2007) 871 879.41 A. Nordmann, If and then:
8 november 2009,915 916 EDITORIAL Impacts and implications of future-oriented technology analysis for policy and decision making*Most of the papers in this special issue were presented at the Third International Seville Conference on Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) that took place in October 2008.
(ERA), European commission, Luxembourg, 2008.19 D. Braun, Special issue on‘‘The political coordination of knowledge and innovation policies'',Science and Public policy 35 (4)( 2008.
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,
Design/methodology/approach This introductory paper provides an overview of selected FTA 2011 Conference contributions for this Special issue.
only a restricted number of papers could be included in this Special issue highlighting the broad diversity of FTA application fields in response to grand challenges.
Social implications The papers of this Special issue point to the need for FTA to take into account user perspectives
Originality/value This Special issue brings together papers that explore not only the opportunities and limitations of implementing FTA METHODS in a variety of policy domains,
To sum up, the articles in this special issue demonstrate a variety of FTA application fields and offer a glimpse onto possible consequences that grand challenges may imply for the development of FTA in the coming years.
Miller, R. and Poli, R. 2010),‘Introduction to a Special issue on anticipatory systems and the philosophical foundations of future studies'',Foresight, Vol. 12 No. 3. Mitchell, M. 2009), Complexity:
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (2001),‘Special issue on foresight and regional development'',The IPTS Report No. 59, pp. 1-47.
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
The papers presented in this special issue address the above issues by exploring from different angles the growing demand for forward-looking intelligence in times of crisis and uncertainty,
These thought-provoking papers of the special issue provide a rich spectrum of insights and opinions on the role of FTA in preparing for Grand challenges.
and other articles in the same special issue of foresight on anticipatory systems. Notes on contributor Ilkka Tuomi is Chief Scientist at Meaning Processing Ltd.
The special issue of Technology analysis & Strategic management in 2008 provides a good overview of these intended benefits.
Special issue, Technological forecasting and Social Change 77, no. 9: 1423 5. Cuhls, K, . and R. Johnston. 2008.
Introduction to special issues: Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA: Impact on policy and decision making. Technological forecasting & Social Change 75, no. 4: 457 61.
It does so by critically reflecting on the selected papers for this special issue as well as on the discussions that took place at the fourth Seville International Conference on Future-oriented technology analysis.
After a brief explanation of these issues, the paper outlines the main ideas of the papers published in this special issue.
FTA practices Fundamental change and transformations Grand challenges 1. Introduction Drawing upon a critical reflection on the selected papers for this special issue as well as on the discussions that took place at the fourth Seville International Conference on Future-oriented technology analysis,
The second part highlights the main ideas of the eight papers published in this special issue. These present some advances needed in practice to assist FTA practitioners
the guest editors of this special issue would stress that one needs to be careful before proposing the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods as the way forward,
and social innovations to achieve a structural transformation. 6. Papers in this special issue The papers in this special issue of TFSC discuss various methodological aspects of FTA APPROACHES as well as some advances needed in practice to assist us in comprehending transformations.
and refinement the best papers are presented in this special issue. The paper by Haegeman et al. 4 explores aspects which ought to be considered to properly combine quantitative and qualitative approaches,
In a recent special issue of Technological forecasting and Social Change on adaptivity in decision-making, the guest editors conclude that Adaptive policy-making is a way of dealing with deep uncertainty that falls between too much precaution and acting too late.
This Special issue, like many compendia arising out of a professional conference, offers a sample of the state of the art at a particular point in time.
The papers presented in this Special issue represent only a small selection of the work presented and discussed at the 2011 FTA Conferences.
The selection of papers presented in this Special issue all share the aim of enhancing the usefulness of FTA
and finalize this Special issue reflects the difficulty of this kind of ex-post process and the far-flung and changing circumstances of its authors and editors.
Furthermore, the editors of this Special issue, each from their own vantage point, have been following the evolution of the disparate fields brought together by FTA over the years.
we believe that the papers in this Special issue, offer some clues both negative and positive regarding the ways to build shared discourses that cover theory and practice.
Almost all the articles in the Special issue take on this challenge the rationale for matching particular tools to particular tasks.
On the positive side the articles in this Special issue show a vibrant community of practice that has been actively innovating
In the view of the editors of this Special issue the FTA and Foresight communities may be at a turning point:
and the papers presented in this Special issue. What is clear is that such efforts are needed to at once provide more consistent and robust design principles to guide the matching of tools to tasks
generating more papers like those found in this Special issue, and provoking further conversations on to use the future in ways that take advantage of humanity's many anticipatory systems. 1 R. Miller, R. Poli, P. Rossel, The discipline of anticipation, forthcoming, UNESCO.
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe Institute of technology, Karlsruhe, Germany Received 29 february 2008 Introduction The contributions included in this special issue build on material presented at the Second International Seville Seminar on Future-oriented technology analysis (FTA
10.1016/j. techfore. 2008.03.001 The six articles included in this Special issue were presented in 2006. The overarching theme was the impact of fta approaches on policy and decision-making,
The fifth paper included in this Special issue, by Amanatidou and Guy, was a contribution to the above described theme.
The last article in this Special issue entitled‘Devising Futures for Universities in a Multilevel Structure: a methodological experiment'by Havas, is a contribution to the Higher education theme.
a literature review, ejov Special issue on Living Labs 10 (2008. K. De Moor et al.//Futures 59 (2014) 39 49 49
This special issue assembles a selection of papers addresssin these issues from three main perspectives:.systemic change, reorienting the research
The contributions to this special issue, as well as to the FTA conference more generally, clearly demonstrate there is a growing volume of valuable and appropriable experiennc in the development and application of fta, in terms of both the process and methods and the organisational context in
Additionally, in this special issue Ko nno la et al. 2012) regard horizon scanning as:..a creative process of collective sense-making by way of collecting
XXX XXX, in this special issue. Loveridge, D. 2009)‘ Foresight: The Art and Science of Anticipating the Future'.
Future radar 2030 (Zukunftsradar 2030)',International Journal of Foresight and Innovation policy, forthcoming special issue. Lund Declaration.
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