The blue economy integrates commercial, research and innovation activities across diverse
industrial sectors. Achieving a sustainable blue economy requires unlocking the potential of …

Purpose This paper aims to analyse the mainstream and emerging global challenges and
trends in the global agriculture sector. The analysis leads to a discussion on the present …

Fig. 1.1 Publications featuring key words in their titles, 1965–2014. Note: The data points
capture the number of times both words appear in the title of a publication, regardless of …

The urgency of current social challenges is driving new approaches to framing and funding
research, development, and innovation. The “mission-oriented” approach framing the EU's …

Technological progress does not happen in a social vacuum. Shaping of tomorrow is not
possible without qualitative analyses. Therefore, the social and psychological dimensions of …

There has been an argument for a while now that foresight lacks a coherent theoretical
basis. The discussion on the theory of foresight calls for a theory, but rarely expounds on …

An increasing number of quantitative and qualitative methods have been used for future-
oriented technology analysis (FTA) to develop understanding of situations, enable creativity …

Purpose–This paper aims to argue that innovation system foresight (ISF) can significantly
contribute to the third mission of universities by creating an active dialogue between …

Trend-und Zukunftsforschung ist für Unternehmen von zentraler Bedeutung. Angewandt
wird sie immer häufiger in Form von sogenannten Foresight-Aktivitäten. Das Buch gibt …

Anticipatory governance (AG) is defined as a “system of systems” that employs foresight to
create future plans and execute relevant actions. Recently, various frameworks of AG have …