dc.contributor.author | Van Zwanenberg, Patrick | |
dc.contributor.author | Ely, Adrian | |
dc.contributor.author | Stirling, Andy | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-03-07T11:47:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-03-07T11:47:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Van Zwanenberg, P., Ely, A. and Stirling, A. (2009) Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresight, STEPS Working Paper 30, Brighton: STEPS Centre | en_GB |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781858647894 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/2460 | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.sponsorship | ESRC | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | STEPS Centre | en_GB |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | STEPS Working Paper; | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | en_GB |
dc.subject | Science and Society | en_GB |
dc.title | Emerging Technologies and Opportunities for International Science and Technology Foresight | en_GB |
dc.type | Series paper (IDS) | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | STEPS Centre | en_GB |
dc.identifier.externaluri | http://steps-centre.org/publication/emerging-technologies-and-opportunities-for-international-science-and-technology-foresight/ | en_GB |