Strategic Foresight

Foresight approaches, such as roadmapping, are increasingly used by governments to identify innovation pathways and shape innovation policy toward addressing long-term societal goals.

 

Current Projects:

National Emerging Technology Policy Strategising (NETS)

In collaboration with UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), this project explores effective practices and lessons learned for strategic and systematic analysis of emerging technologies.

 

Technology 'strata' system framework: A framework distinguishing between technologies

The technology 'strata' system framework provides a systematic framework to characterise technologies and capabilities that enable the development and commercialisation of emerging technologies.

 

Strategic Scientometrics

This project aims to combine backward- and forward-looking analysis to reveal national research strengths and international collaboration opportunities.

 

Roadmapping across public and private sector contexts

This project examines the use of roadmapping across public and private sector contexts. Governments and firms apply roadmapping in different ways to structure long-term thinking, prioritise investments, and navigate uncertainty in technological development and innovation pathways.

 

Roadmapping for government innovation policy

This project suggests that existing roadmapping approaches for government innovation policy should be reconfigured to explicitly incorporate public-good innovation layers in a clearer and more granular way.

 

Network models for technological emergence foresight

This project examines whether it is possible to predict technological emergence.

 

Evolving social network of innovation communities

This project is concerned with examining how and why communities of innovation form and evolve.

 

Long-term patterns in technological emergence

This project aims to address the questions around how and why technologies emerge in the long term.