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Synopsis: Practice: Social practice:

Exploring the future as social practice. Paper presented at conference on‘Probing the future: developing organizational foresight in the knowledge economy',11 13 july 2002, University of Strathclyde Graduate school of Business, Glasgow, UK.

because the innovation system is constituted by numerous social practices, networks, institutions, and stakeholders. The latter, for instance, extend well beyond the‘‘usual suspects''of R&d-performing firms and public bodies,

and expertbassed PKM involves more stress on social practices and interactions among the individuals and groups who create,

The appropriate way to categorise the object of study depends on the role it plays in the current social practices.

In this model, innovation occurs when social practice changes. The history of innovations and technical change shows that‘heroic innovators'are located often in the downstream.

when a potential user group finds a meaningful way to integrate latent innovative opportunities in the current social practice (Tuomi 2002).

In models that emphasise the role of social practices and social interaction as the key loci of innovation (Engel 1997;

For example, in the multifocal model of Tuomi (2002), new technical functionalities and propensities are thrown in effect from the‘upstream'to a‘downstream'field of interacting social practices,

'The same artefact Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 04:52 03 december 2014 Foresight in an unpredictable world 739 can be used for many different purposes in many different social practices, each with its own developmental trajectories.

and systems of meaning that are located in communities of users and social practice. The true nature of the beast is revealed only when someone domesticates it.

At that point, social practices start to change. Messaging becomes a key driver for development and profit in the telecom industry,

and messaging becomes an established social practice, stories of heroic innovators emerge telling howsms functionalitywas devised by clever engineers in the GSM standardisation groups in the mid-1980s.3 Downloaded by University of Bucharest at 04:52 03 december 2014 Foresight in an unpredictable

creating a world where‘messagging becomes a part of emerging social practices. After these new uses are invented,

as the emerging new social practices can be understood as new forms of already existing practices. In the activitytheooreti hierarchy, the focus of change is on the operational level

Technology refers both to physical artifacts as well as to social practices that specify how these artifacts can be used.

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