The development of any region or territory stems from its own dynamic nature. Economic activity and employment are stimulated by the number of local initiatives plus the crossfertilisation of those same initiatives. Globalisation, external constraints and technological change are therefore not really obstacles to be overcome but rather opportunities to be seized. In our experience, participator...

An increasing number of technology firms are implementing processes to identify and evaluate the ethical risks their systems products. A key part these review is foresee potential impacts technologies on different groups users. In this chapter, we use expression Ethical Foresight Analysis (EFA) refer a variety analytical strategies for anticipating or predicting issues that new technological ar...

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...

the notion of ‘global citizenship’, however, remains very broad, if not contested, and consequently difficult to operationalize in education. there are two possible reasons for this. firstly, it is unclear whether the very notion of ‘global citizenship’ is a metaphor, a contradiction of terms, or an oxymoron (davies, 2006). what does ‘global citizenship’ possibly imply both from a legal perspec...

In approaching this Special Issue on Foresight, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (FI&E) we considered that globalisation and rapid modernisation were increasingly creating the need for social reflexivity. We thought that in respect to the production and diffusion of innovations, both social and technical, that the landscape for new enterprise was characterised by widening change horizons and dee...

Sports ranking models were the main area of research for our REU project. We studied several different models and the theory behind them. Utilizing MATLAB as a programming language, we used these models to predict game outcomes and point spreads, and compare the relative value of statistics as indicators of team strength. Keener’s Direct Method (1993) ranking model was the starting point in our...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Combined Simulation Approach (CSA) is a way to evaluate risks and address potential unforeseen problems in a more interactive way than what is often observed in practice in companies or sectors. The approach is based on a combination of scenario analysis and discrete-event computer simulation with which the strategies can be continuously developed. The contribution of ...