'Technology foresight towards 2020 in China': the practice and its impacts

Technology foresight has attracted increasingly more attention from the government and academia as well as industries since 1990s. However, the impact of technology foresight on national strategic decision-making varies from countries to countries. This paper tries to introduce the technology foresight towards 2020 in China which conducted by the research group in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The paper consists of five parts, namely: (1) Introduction. (2) The framework of technology foresight towards 2020 in China. (3) The methodology for Technology foresight, including Scenario Building for identifying technology demands, and the method for processing and analyzing the data of Delphi Survey. (4) The major result of Delphi Survey of 4 research fields including information technology, bio-technology, energy technology, material science and technology. (5) The impact of the research on the decision-making concerning science and technology development in China. he Science & Technology Demands in 2020.