Mahmud Farooque

TL;DR: Technological forecasting is now poised to respond to the emerging needs of private and public sector organizations in the highly competitive global environment as mentioned in this paper, and new tools are anticipated, borrowing variously from fields such as political science, computer science, scientometrics, innovation management, and complexity science.

TL;DR: It is suggested that boundary spanning has the potential to increase the efficiency by which useful research is produced, foster the capacity to absorb new evidence and perspectives into sustainability decision-making, enhance research relevance for societal challenges, and open new policy windows.

TL;DR: Here it is shown how, as the global governance vacuum is filled, deliberation by a global citizens' assembly should play a role, for legitimate and effective governance.

TL;DR: The Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) as discussed by the authors is a participatory technology assessment (pTA) method developed to support democratic science policy decision-making in different technical, social, and political contexts.

TL;DR: Fukuyama's recent book, Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity as discussed by the authors presents an interdisciplinary perspective on many of the topics economists have come to claim as theirs only.