Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers [electronic resource] : Creating Opportunities Through Public Policies and Corporate Strategies in Science, Technology and Innovation / edited by Leonid Gokhberg, Dirk Meissner, Alexander Sokolov.
Series: Science, Technology and Innovation StudiesPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016Description: XX, 273 p. 59 illus., 55 illus. in color. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783319256283
- 338.926 23
- JF20-2112

Introduction -- Part I: Foresight for Anticipatory STI Strategies -- Part II: Foresight for STI Policy: Country Cases.-Part III: Future Oriented STI Policy Context -- Part IV: Conclusions.
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.