A Foresight Scenario Method for Thinking About Complex Sustainable Development Interactions

Strategic Foresight by Scenario Method, for Attracting Foreign Investment in Iran by 2041 

The attraction of foreign investment is one of the economic priorities in developing countries, including Iran. But increasing uncertainty in this field has led policy making toward new approaches such as strategic foresight. The main purpose of this study is to develop scenarios to attract foreign investment in Iran. The research method is scenario planning and in order to identify the "key dr...

Thinking Systemically About Complex Systems

Thinking ahead about where something is needed: new insights about episodic foresight in preschoolers.

We explored 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds' capacity to draw on a past experience that entailed the lack of a particular resource (in this case, toys) in one room, but not in another, to make an adaptive choice (i.e., place toys in the room where there were none) for a subsequent visit to the two rooms. Children's memory for which room had toys and which room did not was explicitly assessed. Children ...

Thinking about Culture and Development

Contents 1 Overview and introduction 1 2 What do we mean by development? 2 3 What do we mean by culture? 16 4 Summary 29

Foresight for digital development

This report discusses a number of digital developments, namely big data, the Internet of things, massive open online courses (MOOCs), three-dimensional printing and digital automation, and their potential long-term effects on the economy, society and the environment. Special focus is given to the role of technology foresight as a tool for policy planning in assessing the potential impact of the...