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dc.contributor.authorVan Zwanenberg, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorEly, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorStirling, Andy
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-07T11:47:09Z
dc.date.available2013-03-07T11:47:09Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.citationVan Zwanenberg, P., Ely, A. and Stirling, A. (2009) Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresight, STEPS Working Paper 30, Brighton: STEPS Centreen_GB
dc.identifier.isbn9781858647894
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/2460
dc.description.abstractThis background paper focuses on the potential role that international science and technology ‘foresight-type’ activities might play in informing decision-making processes about innovation, development and emerging technologies. Two, predominantly national-level, foresight type activities are discussed, ‘technology foresight’ and ‘technology assessment’. Experiences with these approaches are quite diverse but over time there has been a discernible shift in many countries away from reductive and expert-based exercises to more plural processes in which wider sets of assumptions have been articulated about problems, desired futures and the social purposes of technology. Foresight-type activities have only occasionally been conducted at the international level but this paper argues that there may be scope for conceiving of international foresight activities as a mechanism for articulating and framing development ‘needs’, and for bringing these to bear on innovation actors. This would, however require considerable attention to how foresight-type activities are designed and conducted, and the complexities of dealing with a very large array of global actors and perspectives.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipESRCen_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSTEPS Centreen_GB
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSTEPS Working Paper;
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_GB
dc.subjectScience and Societyen_GB
dc.titleEmerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresighten_GB
dc.typeSeries paper (IDS)en_GB
dc.rights.holderSTEPS Centreen_GB
dc.identifier.externalurihttp://steps-centre.org/publication/emerging-technologies-and-opportunities-for-international-science-and-technology-foresight/en_GB


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