Using Foresight to develop strategies for science, technology and innovation

Paper presented at Conference on ‘Towards an agenda for agricultural research in Europe’, Wageningen, April 13-15, 1999
Hans Rutten, Arie-Pieter Verkaik and Jan de Wilt
National Council for Agricultural Research (NRLO)
P.O.Box 20401
2500 EK Den Haag
The Netherlands

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Table of Contents

  1. Using Foresight to develop strategies for science, technology and innovation
  2. Contents of the presentation
  3. In a nutshell
  4. What is Foresight?
  5. Why Foresight?
  6. How: main framework
  7. How: guiding principles
  8. How: methods used
  9. How: the scope
  10. Outcomes: new perspectives
  11. Key ambition: Agribusiness pursues active value-based policies
  12. Key ambition: Agro-food chains become flexible networks
  13. Key ambition: Agribusiness forges new alliances with citizens
  14. Key ambition: Agribusiness opts for pluralism
  15. Key ambition: Develop new concepts in the relations between town and countryside
  16. Main task is to realise comprehensive structural innovations
  17. Implications for research
  18. Evaluation: results
  19. Evaluation: lessons learnt
  20. Points for discussion
  21. NRLO's website
  22. Other useful websites
  23. Forecasting vs foresight
  24. Ambition-driven strategyTM

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