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Foresight and Challenges
In Communicating
Its Result To Decision Makers
This article is an excerpt from the original paper entitled “The Challenges of
Communicating the Foresight Study Outcomes to Better Advise Decision Makers
in Policy and Strategy Matters”. The paper was presented during the Fourth
International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA)
and Grand Societal Challenges in Seville, Spain on the 12-13th May 2011.
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The Center for Strategic Studies and Management
- CGEE is a non-profit Brazilian think tank, created
in 2001 and qualified as a Social Organization by the
Brazilian President, and supervised by Ministry of
Science and Technology, in order to promote Science,
Technology and Innovation (ST&I) development
to advance economic growth, competitiveness and
well-being in Brazil. The scope of CGEE's activities
covers three integrated themes: foresight studies;
strategic evaluation of large programs and projects;
and information and knowledge diffusion related to
the Brazilian ST&I System. CGEE is considered an
interface organization in the ST&I environment. It
has the responsibility of articulating Government,
Private Sector, Academia, and other relevant ST&I
representatives in the sense of gathering collective
understanding to develop its activities. |
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From 2001
to date, CGEE has conducted nearly 400 foresight
studies and program/project evaluations, mobilizing
more than 2000 experts per year coming from 300
institutions.
This article addresses the challenges of
communicating the results of foresight processes to
Brazilian decision makers in a way that truly supports
their decisions. It stresses the role of intangibles
as a central outcome of foresight exercises and the
importance to promote out-of-the-box thinking.
Lessons learned are presented as well as a case study.
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 | Critical Factors
Influencing The Selection
of Foresight Methods
This paper is based on – and slightly updates
– the “How are foresight methods selected?”
publication (Popper, 2008). The original paper
was published in the foresight journal and in
2009 was chosen as an Outstanding Paper
Award Winner at the Literati Network Awards
for Excellence. |
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Science and Technology
Vision for the Future: Toward The Year of 2040
The creation and acceptance of new
technologies has accelerated in
modern times. In future, science and
technology will be a key driver of
social change. While the convergence
of science and technology will speed up the creation
of new technologies and industries. |
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Towards A Forward Looking Insightful Policy:
Combining
Competitive
Intelligence and
Foresight
It is an honour for us to have an article in the inaugural issue of the myForesight magazine. The launch of this publication is important for
Malaysia as it brings together best practices on how to conduct foresight. The two of us have been fortunate to witness Malaysia’s commitment
to forward looking policy as we work towards increasing foresight literacy in Malaysia under the Brain Gain program, and in being part of many
other foresight and insight related initiatives in this country.. |
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