Future-Oriented Technology Analysis to Support Decision-Making in Meeting Global Challenges

Anticipatory intelligence in support of decision-making builds on various tools and techniques, developed in a variety of epistemic communities over the past decades. Within the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (JRC-IPTS) anticipation activities have been developed seeking to build a dialogue between those different communities. The label Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) aims to be a common umbrella for foresight, forecasting and technology assessment. A fundamental premise of the anticipatory activities at JRC-IPTS to date has been that anticipation is a necessary policy response component to the environment of accelerated socio-economic and technological changes. This article highlights some of the anticipatory activities at JRC-IPTS over the last years.

CARABIAS Vicente;  HAEGEMAN Karel; 

2013-05-29

OEKOM VERLAG

JRC79195

0940-5550,