The Handbook of Technology Foresight: Concepts and Practice

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Luke Georghiou
Edward Elgar Publishing, Mar 31, 2008 - Technology & Engineering - 428 pages
This volume takes a number of different approaches towards explaining the subject of technology foresight, which involves predicting, understanding, and reacting to technological change. The editors (all of the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research,
 

Contents

1 The Many Faces of Foresight
3
2 From Futures to Foresight
24
3 Foresight Methodology
44
PART TWO Foresight Experience Around the World
89
4 Foresight in the United Kingdom
91
5 Foresight in France
112
6 Foresight in Germany
131
7 Foresight in the USA
154
11 Foresight in Industrialising Asia
237
12 Foresight in Latin America
256
13 Foresight in CEE Countries
287
PART THREE Policy and Management Issues in Foresight
317
14 Policy Transfer and Learning
319
15 Scoping and Planning Foresight
342
16 Evaluation and Impact of Foresight
376
Emerging Foresight
400

8 Foresight in Japan
170
9 Foresight in Nordic Countries
184
10 Foresight in Smaller Countries
216

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Edited by Luke Georghiou, PREST, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, MBS University of Manchester, UK, Jennifer Cassingena Harper, MCST, Malta Council for Science and Technology, Malta, Michael Keenan, PREST, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, MBS University of Manchester, UK, Ian Miles, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester, UK and Rafael Popper, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, Finland

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