technology foresight is a methodology for making the complexity and advanced nature of new technologies of future more comprehensible and transparent. the objective of this survey is to analyze and interpret weakness and strength of the current situation of iran organizations regarding utilization of foresight activities of developing new technologies and its influence over the country by usin...

to implement e-government successfully, it is important to have appropriate strategies. According to this, at first, different models of e-government are reviewed and the important parameters and key issues for e-government strategic planning are extracted. Secondly, as foresight is a suitable tool to determine appropriate strategies, different foresight frameworks are reviewed. Finally, a conc...

In innovation networks, participatory foresight activities can typically have several functions. They can be seen as a tool for supporting decisionmaking on Science and Technology (S&T) priorities, but they can also be expected to contribute to the structures of a network beyond the scope of decision making. Foresight activities are often limited by tight timeframes, budgets and they need to be...

In innovation networks, participatory foresight activities can typically have several functions. They can be seen as a tool for supporting decision-making on science and technology (S&T) priorities, but they can also be expected to contribute to the structures of a network beyond the scope of decision making. Foresight activities are often limited by tight timeframes, budgets and they need to b...

Whilst large organisations need foresight, they are also notorious in their bias for short term thinking, sometimes rejecting or even suppressing foresight. This paper describes a variety of 'stealth' techniques to embed foresight methods and models within mainstream business and strategy-development processes as a means to support internal innovation and summarises experience gained in applyin...

the present paper deals with the results of the foresight analysis concerning the development of energy technologies in upper silesia. twelve experts representing science, industry and independent authoritieswere involved in these investigations. upper silesia is a specific region in poland, characterized by coal energy technologies. as 9 result of steep and swot analyses several scenarios of e...

We study forward-looking economic models assuming that agents take one step ahead expectations looking back k time periods. We show that the dynamics of the economy with such an expectation function are characterized by the coexistence of perfect foresight and nonperfect foresight cycles. The stability of all these periodic solutions under bounded rationality is related to the stability of the ...