FinnSight 2015 – A Foresight Exercise for the Shaping of National Strategies

Ville Brummer (), Totti Könnölä and Ahti Salo ()
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Ville Brummer: Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)
Ahti Salo: Systems Analysis Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology (Finland)

Foresight and STI Governance (Foresight-Russia till No. 3/2015), 2009, vol. 3, issue 4, 56-65

Abstract: The paper describes FinnSight 2015, the national foresight exercise of the Academy of Finland and the National Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation (Tekes), which was launched largely with the aim of informing — albeit indirectly — the development of the national strategy which is currently being implemented by establishing five Strategic Centers of Excellence in Science, and Technology. The authors analyze the policy context, management structures, methodological execution and key results of FinnSight. They also report some of the subsequent policy developments, and examine FinnSight in view of four axes of balance that are arguably helpful in the planning of foresight exercises. The methodological novelties of FinnSight are highlighted, particularly as concerns the combination of distributed work by individual panelists (which was assisted through Internet-based tools) and their interactive collaboration in group settings (which took place in facilitated workshops). Note: Downloadable document is in Russian.

Keywords: foresight; expert panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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