Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers

1. Foresight: Turning Challenges into Opportunities
Leonid Gokhberg, Dirk Meissner, Alexander Sokolov

Part I. Foresight for Anticipatory STI Strategies

2. Integration of Trend Monitoring into STI Policy
Ozcan Saritas

3. Identification of Stakeholders’ Hidden Agendas for Technology Diffusion
Dirk Meissner

4. Integrating Foresight with Corporate Planning
Jonathan D. Linton, Steven T. Walsh

5. Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Foresight
Konstantin Vishnevskiy, Oleg Karasev

6. Technological Evolution and Transhumanism
José Cordeiro

Part II. Foresight for STI Policy: Country Cases

7. Research Priorities and Foresight Exercises in South Africa: Review and Recent Results
Anastassios Pouris, Portia Raphasha

8. STI Foresight in Brazil
Cristiano Cagnin

9. National System of Science and Technology Foresight in Russia
Alexander Chulok

10. Building a National System of Technology Foresight in Korea
Moonjung Choi, Han-Lim Choi

11. Foresight, Competitive Intelligence and Business Analytics for Developing and Running Better Programmes
Jonathan Calof, Gregory Richards, Jack Smith

Part III. Future Oriented STI Policy Context

12. Exploring the Potential for Foresight and Forward-Looking Activity in Horizon 2020
Jennifer Cassingena Harper

13. Impact Analysis of Foresight for STI Policy Formulation: Cases of Romania, Vietnam and Kazakhstan
Ricardo Seidl Fonseca

14. The Future of Services
Ian Miles

15. Future-Oriented Positioning of Knowledge Intensive Local Networks in Global Value Chains: The Case of Turkey
Erkan Erdil, Hadi Tolga Göksidan

Part IV. Conclusions

16. Seizing Opportunities for National STI Development
Leonid Gokhberg, Dirk Meissner

Keywords: Economics, R & D/Technology Policy, Innovation/Technology Management, Economic Policy