Foresight tackling societal challenges: Impacts and implications on policy-making

Коннола, Тотти; Fabiana, Scapolo; Desruelle, Paul; Rongping, Mu

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2010.11.004

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Könnölä (2011) corroborates with this idea, showing the importance of the creation of new public policies for innovation that promotes sustainability in the contemporary society. We see, therefore, that innovation operates in different segments and innovation habitats are spaces that contribute to this training and for a market trend in which networks of knowledge are the primary resource for sustainability.…”

Section: Klemmer Et Al 1999supporting

confidence: 62%

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Innovation Habitat: Sustainable possibilities for the society

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Contemporary society is moving in the core of a reality in which sustainability needs to be thought out and inserted through practices carried out in different dimensions of society, such as organizations, public and private institutions. This paper aims to identify the contribution of innovation habitats (IH) for sustainability in society. The methodology used was systematic review of scientific literature in one online database. As a result, it was identified: 47 scientific papers publicated since 2000, but more frequently in the last year, 2014, with 10 publications, without providing a reference author in the area. There was also a high number of papers about management and social sciences. It was noticed a short number of publications, empirical and theoretical, about practices to promote sustainable actions in the society, so this indicates the need of research on this kind of practices, with innovation environment as the driver.

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Section: Klemmer Et Al 1999supporting

confidence: 62%

“…Anttonen (2010), Carrillo-Hermosilla, Rio and Könnölä (2010) and Könnölä et al (2011) also highlight the theme eco-innovation and its dimensions in the society. Eco-innovation may be classified in many ways, which implies varied roles for agents with regard to sustainable development in a society.…”

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Innovation Habitat: Sustainable possibilities for the society

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“…A large actor basis, as built in CIMULACT, supports creating ownership of results among the actors themselves and building trust in them outside of the immediate participants. Yet, it is established that impacts of policy advice in general, and the ones produced by public engagement activities in particular, are hard to measure [102], especially when considering a forward looking long term perspective and an emphasis on system level [14]. Nevertheless that does not mean that impacts do not exist.…”

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“…Here, it is not the citizens' duty to identify certain technologies that can satisfy this need, but expressing the need in the first place. Another example the same reasoning applies for, is the demand for 'fast, flexible, affordable, smart, reliable and clean transport' systems (social need 14). At first sight this may sound like an oxymoron, but again it is citizens setting a landmark by describing a desirable long term future.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…In Europe, Foresight and TA have increasingly contributed to political priority setting and strategic decision making over the last 30 years [12,13], and recently a shift from narrow technology focussed approaches to broader perspectives of the entire socio-technical systems is recognized [14]. Innovation understood as complex process, often entails profound uncertainties and high risks, demanding large investments with late return, or stranded investments [15,16].…”

Section: Towards Needs Based Stimentioning

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Human centred science and technology—transdisciplinary foresight and co-creation as tools for active needs-based innovation governance

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2016

Eur J Futures Res

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Current governance structures are increasingly showing inability to address complex issues such as the Grand Challenges. Dealing with these highly interrelated, cross cutting, extensive and potentially open ended issues requires research, development and innovation to be oriented towards societal needs and demands. Here, developing and applying sustainable long term strategies for socio-technical change on the basis of socially robust knowledge seems inevitable and using the tools of anticipatory governance-forward looking and participation-is essential in order to govern innovation actively and responsibly. Yet, expert-based forward looking has its limits, especially when considering long term perspectives, and may fail to include all necessary opinions. Thus, stakeholder engagement has become a norm over the last decades, but including laypeople into forward looking science, technology and innovation (STI) governance is underexplored. Here, strategy and policy programme development may be well suited to function as early entry point for public needs and values into the innovation process. This paper will briefly review the theoretical basis for transdisciplinary forward looking and provide first insights into an ongoing highly deliberative and reflexive foresight and co-creation process engaging science, society and policy makers, CIMULACTCitizen and Multi-Actor Consultation on Horizon2020. We will especially focus on the role of technology within a collective visioning exercise that allowed for shared explorations of desirable futures, thereby collecting tacit knowledge as well as social needs and values. Integrating these with stakeholders' and experts' knowledge serves for co-creating socially robust knowledge for orienting policy and strategy programming towards needs based science, technology and innovation.

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