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Smurfs, cyborgs and changelings: prospects of human enhancement retrospected

This article stems from the impression of being condemned to late and moralizing reactions in regard to advances in the life sciences. We suggest a return to a speculative and theoretical approach in posing th...

Authors: Predrag Krstić and Srđan Prodanović

Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:21

Content type: Original Article Published on: 18 September 2013
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Foresight 2.0 - Definition, overview & evaluation

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

Content type: Original Article Published on: 9 August 2013
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Don’t blame the economists. It is an inverse problem!

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

Content type: Original Article Published on: 4 August 2013
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New man in utopian and transhumanist perspective

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

Content type: Original Article Published on: 1 August 2013
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Futures Clinique—method for promoting futures learning and provoking radical futures

This paper introduces, illustrates and evaluates the concept of Futures Clinique, which is a participatory and exploratory futures workshop and a collective futures research method to tackle uncertainties, ide...

Authors: Sirkka Heinonen and Juho Ruotsalainen

Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:7

Content type: Original Article Published on: 18 July 2013
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Scenarios for selected maritime economic functions

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

Content type: Original Article Published on: 13 July 2013
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Scenarios to explore the futures of the emerging technology of organic and large area electronics

Emerging technologies pose challenges for futures research because of their uncertainties combined with promises. Actors are anticipating and acting strategically. Sociotechnical scenarios building on endogeno...

Authors: Alireza Parandian and Arie Rip

Citation: European Journal of Futures Research 2013 1:9

Content type: Original Article Published on: 13 July 2013
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Requirements for innovation policy in emerging high-tech industries

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

Content type: Original Article Published on: 13 July 2013
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Editorial

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

Content type: Editorial Published on: 10 July 2013
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