European sectoral innovation foresight: Identifying emerging cross-sectoral patterns and policy issues

Karl Matthias Weber and Petra Schaper-Rinkel

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017, vol. 115, issue C, 240-250

Abstract: The research presented in this paper pursues two main goals. Empirically, it aims to explore sectoral futures at European level in a range of different sectors (automotive, construction, textile, KIBS, wholesale & retail), to identify cross-cutting patterns of sectoral change, and to highlight implications that these may raise for European innovation policy. In order to do this in a systematic manner, it also has a conceptual and methodological ambition, namely to devise a sectoral innovation foresight methodology that builds explicitly on concepts derived from sectoral innovation systems approaches. This theory-led methodology allows exploring and interpreting future developments at sectoral level in a coherent and comparable manner. Technologies and knowledge, actors and organisations, user needs and demand, as well as institutional and policy frameworks are taken into account; elements that need to co-evolve for any innovation system scenario to unfold. This conceptual framework is translated into a sector innovation foresight methodology that was used to guide a multi-sector foresight initiative.

Keywords: Sectoral innovation systems; Foresight; Comparative analysis; Emerging technologies; Key enabling technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.09.007

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