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Why We Are Optimists
18 March 2022in Foresight, Futures, Trends0by admin

Why We Are Optimists

With all the events occurring in the world at the moment we can see how fast everything changes. Nonetheless there are always some things we can be optimistic about –…

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EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: Indian Subcontinent
26 January 2022in Decision making, Foresight, Futures, Scenarios0by Patricia Lustig

EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: Indian Subcontinent

In a continuation of our series based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus, and Teknologi Radet, to develop a system…

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EC Strategic Foresight Report - review
14 January 2022in Foresight, Futures, Policy making0by Huw Williams

EC Strategic Foresight Report - review

After our report to the European Commission  to develop a system for using foresight to develop EU R&I in which we developed four global scenarios for 2040 and expanded on these…

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EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: China
5 January 2022in Decision making, Foresight, Policy making, Scenarios, Trends1by David Lye

EC SAFIRE Scenarios for Global Regions: China

A Happy New Year to our Readers.  Before Christmas we published three blogs based on a report to the European Commission by SAMI and a consortium of partners, IFOK, Cadmus,…

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Opportunities and risks for 2022
16 December 2021in Foresight, Futures, Trends0by Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Opportunities and risks for 2022

This week’s blog post captures the results of an online workshop session of SAMI Principals, brainstorming potential radical events in 2022. We worked through a basic PESTLE format to generate…

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Lessons from ESPAS 2021
3 December 2021in Foresight, Futures, Policy making, Trends0by David Lye and Jonathan Blanchard Smith

Lessons from ESPAS 2021

SAMI Fellows David Lye and Jonathan Blanchard Smith attended ESPAS 2021, the annual meeting of the European Strategy and Policy Analysis System, on 18-19 November. The second day of the…

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