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Futures studies

About: Futures studies is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2996 publications have been published within this topic receiving 49505 citations. The topic is also known as: futurology & futurism.


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01 Dec 2012-Futures
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how feminist futures could be devised, by analysing three one-day workshops designed to elaborate on feminist futures, and explore the possibilities of creating feminist images of the future and to develop and test participatory workshop methods for this in various settings.

13 citations

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Rosaleen Love1
01 Dec 2001-Futures
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the anti-capitalist demonstrations in Seattle in November 1999 and explore the question of what would constitute a robot identity and whether a robot developing an identity would be aware of the processes that could/would shape its identity.

13 citations

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TL;DR: A foresight hub within the Directorate General Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission will support the decision-making procedures of the EU Horizon 2020 research, technology, and innovation programme.
Abstract: A foresight hub within the Directorate General Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission will support the decision-making procedures of the EU Horizon 2020 research, technology, and innovation programme. Foresight in particular is seen as an instrument defining research priorities for European society’s needs in support of the ‘grand societal challenges’. The new initiative marks the recent success of the institutional and administrative application of foresight and derives from a long history of approaches to foresight taken by the European Commission. In fact, the Commission has been implementing measures to both internalise and externalise foresight during various periods since the 1970s. This paper outlines the various phases and approaches of foresight at the European Commission. It contextualises the new attempt of the foresight hub that is assumed to support the next European Commission’s research and innovation policies.

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a framework for the development of tools for science and technological forecasting in the Russian economy. But, they did not consider the quality of tools in the field of science and technical forecasting.
Abstract: Introduction Current tendencies of social and economic development restrict the number of factors enabling increase of Russian economy competitiveness. Due to the reduction of investment and human resources, scientific and technological development becomes the only factor to provide a long-term economic growth and development of the social sphere in our country. In 2014 a Federal Law was drafted dated June 28, 2014 No. 172-FZ "On strategic planning in the Russian Federation" (hereinafter "Federal Law No. 172-FZ"), which defined a list of documents for strategic planning and general principles of its implementation on the territory of Russia. In the near future there is a number of federal strategic planning documents that need to be developed and updated including the documents in science and technical policy. Due to changed macroeconomic conditions of the Russian economy development and increased restrictions, it is necessary to prioritize science and technical policy more clearly and reasonably, taking into account our best practices in developing and updating goal-setting and forecasting documents in the science and technological sphere. The task to provide correlation between the goal-setting documents is of specific relevance as well as the implementation of state measures satisfying strategic priorities of the science and technological development. Main part Science is a fundamental part of the state strategic planning. Any strategic development document should reflect recent scientific achievements not only in the technical sphere but also in the sphere of management. Promotion of a scientific element is one of the typical characteristics of the current period of strategic management development in Russia. Virtually all strategic documents are developed are based on the forecasts related to the science and technological development, which is also the result of a scientific activity. That is the approach taken in the system of strategic planning documents in the Russian Federation and defined by the Federal Law No. 172-FZ. For the first time the definition of such a significant document, defining formation and implementation of the budget, as the state program of the Russian Federation, enshrined in legislation. The strategic planning document contains a complex of planned measures linked in terms of the goals, implementation times and resources, and public policy tools enabling in the context of executing key state functions, achievement of priorities and aims of the state policy in the social and economic development and ensuring national safety in the Russian Federation. The state program of the Russian Federation in the sphere of science is "Development of Science and Technologies" for 2013-2020 (hereinafter, GPRNT, a state program). Additionally, the documents are envisaged, which will define the system of scientifically confirmed picture about the directions and expected results of development in a certain industry or authority. As for the science, it is a forecast of science and technological development of the Russian Federation. It is notable that if until recently a forecast of science and technological development was the main element of strategy in the sphere of science, today a forecast of innovation economy development in general is more significant. This is explained by the appearance and rapid expansion of a new forecasting approach "foresight" [1] and this led to the adoption in 2011 of Innovation development strategy. However, some researchers think [2] that mostly expert forecasting methods in the context of the foresight method do not work in terms of long-term forecasts of the science and technological development. Despite this, requirements to the quality of tools for science and technological forecasting under conditions of national innovative systems competition remain exceptionally strict. Except the Forecast of science and technological development in the Russian Federation until 2030, among the main strategic planning documents are the Doctrine of Russian science development, the Concept of a long-term social and economic development of the Russian Federation until 2020, the Strategy for innovative Russian Federation development until 2020, the Priority directions for the development of science and technology in the Russian Federation, the Critical technologies list and the Fundamentals of Russian Federation policy in the sphere of science and technologies development until 2020 and further (Table 1). …

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that national foresight has disadvantages in implementing such policies because of insufficient monetized information with discriminant power for investment, and that a logic model is indispensable, and can be achieved by subsequent foresight at the time of each decision rather than by one-time National foresight.

13 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
2023323
2022665
2021145
2020155
2019173