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  1. Within foresight management in general and scenario development in particular, the question is often asked: “For what scenario do I have to be prepared?” Since there are manifold approaches of scenario techniq...

    Authors: Volker Grienitz, Michael Hausicke and André-Marcel Schmidt
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 2:27
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  2. Thinking about the future in a scientific manner is often characterised by an illusion of knowledge, leading to precarious one-sidedness and false conclusions. The reasons for this are misinterpretations of co...

    Authors: Johannes Gabriel
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 2:31
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  3. Foresight is a well-known and widely used methodology for the creation of medium and long-term visions of technological, economic and social development. The need for evaluating foresight projects is unquestio...

    Authors: Beata Poteralska and Anna Sacio-Szymańska
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 2:26
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  4. Since the start of the Arab Spring, the Middle East has been the scene of conflict that resonates far beyond its borders. This paper will argue that the upheavals in the Middle East cry out for a long view and...

    Authors: P. W. F. Van Notten
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 2:28
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  6. The paper links to the EU funded project titled «Addictions and lifestyles in contemporary Europe – reframing addictions project», acronym: ALICE RAP. The project invited 17 European and three international dr...

    Authors: Jan Erik Karlsen, Antoni Gual and Peter Anderson
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:19
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  7. Technology assessment (TA) is defined as problem-oriented transdisciplinary research that aims at working out solutions for societal problems. It provides advice to those in politics, science and wider society...

    Authors: Nora Weinberger, Michael Decker, Torsten Fleischer and Jens Schippl
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:23
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  9. Research indicates that evidence-based policy making is most successful when public administrators refer to diversified information portfolios. With the rising prominence of social media in the last decade, th...

    Authors: Verena Grubmüller, Katharina Götsch and Bernhard Krieger
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:20
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  11. Will the European manufacturing industry survive in the long term? This question has been discussed for decades. The issue is particularly controversial for the chemical industry with its energy-intensive prod...

    Authors: Inga-Lena Darkow and Heiko A. von der Gracht
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:10
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  12. There is no consensus among scholars about whether part-time work is an alerting signal of an on-going fragmentation of the labour market and of the rise in atypical working arrangements or whether it should b...

    Authors: Tobias Hinterseer
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:18
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  13. As many futurists have argued, images of the future have a crucial role to play in societal development. At an individual level, the understanding of people’s hopes, fears and expectations becomes important no...

    Authors: Mario Guillo
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:17
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  14. This article combines futures research with participatory practice research, whose methodical approaches such as “community participation”, “community-based participatory research” and “participatory action re...

    Authors: Reinhold Popp
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:16
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  16. This paper contains a definition of Foresight 2.0 and summarizes the status quo of current methodological approaches in the field. It offers a categorization of individual applications by their technical featu...

    Authors: Jörg Schatzmann, René Schäfer and Frederik Eichelbaum
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:15
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  17. The seriousness of the current crisis urgently demands new economic thinking that breaks the austerity vs. deficit spending circle in economic policy. The core tenet of the paper is that the most important proble...

    Authors: Jaime Gomez-Ramirez
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:13
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  18. The title assumes that there is a difference between political Utopia and the transhumanist techno-vision. But if one follows recent publications that promise a renaissance of utopia, the transhumanist 21st ce...

    Authors: Richard Saage
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:14
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  20. This paper discusses the use of scenarios in the ‘Blue Growth’ project, which was aimed at elaborating the maritime dimension of the Europe 2020 strategy, with a 15-year time horizon (2025/2030). Scenarios wer...

    Authors: H. A. Wolters, J. Gille, J. M. de Vet and R. J. Molemaker
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:11
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  22. Innovation policy can never be fully technology-neutral and policies often align to support incumbent technological regimes obstructing the development of new industries. In this paper, two fields are analyzed...

    Authors: Matti Pihlajamaa, Anne Patana, Kirsi Polvinen and Laura Kanto
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:8
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  23. Authors: Christine Ahrend, Daniel Barben, Gerhard de Haan, Erik F. Øverland, Reinhold Popp, Ulrich Reinhardt and Doris Urbanek
    Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:12
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