Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers: Creating Opportunities Through Public Policies and Corporate Strategies in Science, Technology and ... (Science, Technology and Innovation Studies)

This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities. The authors present foresight approaches for innovation policy and management. Future developments in fields such as education, energy, new materials, nanotechnologies are highlighted for different countries. Readers will discover tools and instruments to capture the potentials of the grand societal challenges as defined by the United Nations. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and scholars with an interest in foresight methods and gives practical hints for policy makers and managers to take account of the grand opportunities in their business and policy strategies. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Foresight: Turning Challenges into Opportunities....Pages 1-8 Front Matter....Pages 9-9 Integration of Trend Monitoring into STI Policy....Pages 11-32 Identification of Stakeholders’ Hidden Agendas for Technology Diffusion....Pages 33-48 Integrating Foresight with Corporate Planning....Pages 49-64 Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Foresight....Pages 65-79 Technological Evolution and Transhumanism....Pages 81-92 Front Matter....Pages 93-93 Research Priorities and Foresight Exercises in South Africa: Review and Recent Results....Pages 95-112 STI Foresight in Brazil....Pages 113-124 National System of Science and Technology Foresight in Russia....Pages 125-143 Building a National System of Technology Foresight in Korea....Pages 145-159 Foresight, Competitive Intelligence and Business Analytics for Developing and Running Better Programmes....Pages 161-180 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Exploring the Potential for Foresight and Forward-Looking Activity in Horizon 2020....Pages 183-195 Impact Analysis of Foresight for STI Policy Formulation: Cases of Romania, Vietnam and Kazakhstan....Pages 197-225 The Future of Services....Pages 227-244 Future-Oriented Positioning of Knowledge Intensive Local Networks in Global Value Chains: The Case of Turkey....Pages 245-264 Front Matter....Pages 265-265 Seizing Opportunities for National STI Development....Pages 267-273