and approaches developed for the purpose. The conclusions provide a brief critical evaluation of the methods and an identification of requirements for future research.
but also for legitimation purposes and for increasing the possibilities of success, especially within the early stages 17.
First of all, user surveys are used traditionally rarely at the early, exploratory stages of the development process and with the purpose of detecting future needs or opportunities.
and integration of methods that are relevant for IF purposes, taking into account the diversity of user types.
IF studies in Living Lab environments seem promising, especially for the purpose of detecting unexpected uses
With this purpose in mind, this introduuctor paper sets out the general framework for approaching this topic.
and create more insights into their many purposes. Finally, we are persuaded that horizon scanning gives us a tool to create a common understanding and shared awareness of a wide variety of future problems, threats and opportunities (PTOS),
so that their effectiveness could be properly evaluatted The purpose of such guidelines would not be to limit their use to one particular context,
which was limited more for the Danish scan due to the fact that the Danish scan had limited a purpose. 4. Australia and New zealand Horizon scanning Network (health technology scan).
(28) Cable TV and satellite TV network operators are the predominant distributors of video-on-demand over the internet (30) Content creation for educational purposes (e-learning) reaches a 20%share
For the purposes of this paper, however, we will only report on data related to the two primary research questions:
The purpose of this scan was to generate relevant input and knowledge in order to identify current and future mobile applications that might
scope and purpose; knowledge and experience of the participants involved; stakeholders'decision-making culture and management styles.
The initial phase of the methodological approach has the sole purpose of improving the shared understanding about
'Usually, at this point, the purpose of the methodological approach is to listen, interpret and understand the client's needs, desires and preoccupations.
for which purposes is funding allocated, and which mechaniism are deployed?.What is the distribution between support of diffusion, mission-orientation, excellence and capacity-building?.
7 Similarly, the purpose of the 985 Program, established in 1998, is to strengthen China's higher education system by funding around 40 universities out of a total of around 2, 000 regular institutions of higher education in China (Marginson 2006).
The purpose of these policies changed dramatically in the 1980s. Before the 1980s, the agricultural products were export-oriented.
A promising framework for this purpose is offered under the concept of JPIS for example. As acknowledged in the Voluntary Guidelines on Framework Conditions for Joint Programming in Research 201010 forward-looking activities might be used both
using the notion of an‘overall function'does not imply that all actors in a particular system exist for the purpose of serving that function
Such dynamics call for further research into the design of tailored FTA systems which are fit for purpose. 2. 3 FTA systems
Service providers as well as FTA instituttion need to be able to draw on networks for many purposes,
The purpose of its current foresight exercise is to explore the potential development of international science over the next two decades in a changing economic, social, political and environmental context.
Purpose: The exercise set out to map the long-term uncertainties of developments around international science cooperation with a view to building greater agility vis-a vis disruptive change.
Commissioned by the Victorian government, the purpose of the Victoria Technology roadmap was to build a synthesizing picture of the effects of emerging technologies and technology convergence in the region of Victoria, Australia, up until the year 2020.
Lee, S. and Park, Y. 2005)‘ Customization of technology roadmaps according to roadmapping purposes: Overall process and detailed modules',Technological forecasting and Social Change, 72: 567 83.
For the purpose of this paper we define five key functions in transnational research programming,
journals. permissions@oup. com A relevant tool for this purpose is defined horizon scanning as:..the systematic examination of potential future) problems, threats, opportunities and likely future developments, including those at the margins of current thinking and planning.
9 or Gapminder10 are very helpful for this purpose. Another advantage of internet scanning is that it uses all available sources of information on the internet (including audiovisual information) as well as web tools such as those mentioned above.
on human imagination and creativvity Within the SESTI project different text-mining techniques were used for this purpose as well as exercises which used participative web tools such as Wikipedia,
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