Foresight Institute

Outputs Seminars and or training courses on technology management and technology foresight road mapping Advisory services on science and technology and innovation policy and relevant action plans Technology foresight sectoral studies Established network groups at the regional national level in relation to technology foresight Upgraded developed tools and methodologies related to technology management, road mapping and technology foresight.

But the process itself is without purpose, without foresight, without design.

Programme Component D.2 Technology Management and Technology Road mapping and Foresight

You don't need a designer, or a plan, or foresight, or anything else.

Turkey was a donor to and an active participant in the technology foresight seminars.

So one of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

Technology management, road mapping and foresight are instrumental to support technology diffusion, national innovation systems, and technology capacity building.

We welcome your initiative, your foresight and your sincere determination to make this crucial process truly open and fair.

Of particular note is the foresight shown by the court in realizing the importance of e technology in enhancing its work.

Given the political will, the international community also has the foresight, compassion and energy to ensure that it will not fail.

Since its establishment in February 2000, the UNIDO Centre for Regional Cooperation in Ankara had organized workshops on technology foresight, agro industry and promotion of SMEs.

The secretariat is grateful for the foresight, and the support to UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people, demonstrated by these and other donors in the past.

Your vast experience, your foresight and your relentless quest for practical solutions to problems leave me in no doubt that the Conference will make commendable progress during your presidency.

This is the context of our current peculiar vulnerability. What used to protect us (distance, government intervention, foresight, classic defense methods) has been weakened, and now offers little or no protection.

Substantial deviation has been observed between the opinions of men and women regarding managerial ability ability for group coordination, foresight, communicating abilities, wit, synthesizing abilities, boldness in promoting innovation, practical disposition, competitiveness.

The 99 references the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran, things like generosity and mercy and foresight and wisdom and dozens of others that no two people in the world would disagree about.

Consider the absence of an early tsunami warning system in the worst affected countries. It is easy to blame people for lack of foresight, but none of the nine hardest hit countries had developed one.

We did a project for the Government Office of Science a couple of years ago, a big program called the Foresight program lots and lots of people involved lots of experts everything evidence based a huge tome.

While giving due credit to the foresight of the Organization's founders, we should note that the activities of the United Nations can and should be further advanced in light of modern realities and the prospects for world development.

Unseasoned in the art of politics, the NTC frequently lacks the foresight needed to make critical decisions. During last year s eight month revolution, the NTC concentrated on overthrowing Qaddafi, gaining international recognition, and securing access to frozen Libyan assets.

By doling out vast sums of money to rescue the financial system, without asking for genuine guarantees in return, they showed a lack of foresight. Acknowledging that rating agencies were incompetent without doing anything to regulate them was inexcusable.

So if we have the political and financial foresight to sustain our investments, we will master these and new tools of vaccinology, and with these tools we can produce enough vaccine for everyone at low cost and ensure healthy productive lives.

BERLIN The world s task in addressing North Korea s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country. On the contrary, it is in such circumstances that calm foresight is most necessary.

The country s enormous environmental debt will have to be paid, one way or another. China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.

Europe should seek to make science more user friendly, both to its own researchers and would be scientists and those in developing countries. Let us hope that Europe s politicians have the foresight to meet these challenges before European science becomes irreversibly marginalized.

In any case, the time of standstill in the Middle East is coming to an end. Whether the consequences of this development will be good or bad depends on whether the region can muster the foresight and strength actively to shape this process.

On the latter, it is impressive to see the foresight of the founding fathers of the United Nations when they drafted Chapter VIII of the Charter, since regionalization was then a far cry from today's realities of robust organizations and intense integrative processes.

That is because our new reality is one of droughts, heat waves, extreme storms, rising sea levels, and unstable climate patterns. Unless we act with foresight and base our actions on scientific evidence, water stress, food insecurity, and social crises will not be far behind.

It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel. The policy, reminiscent of terrorist stratagems, of bombing civilians in order to force the hands of their leaders will only strengthen the radicals and boost their popular support.

On behalf of my Government, I would like to commend and thank Mr. Jessen Petersen for his leadership and foresight at the head of UNMIK and for his active diplomacy in promoting a fruitful partnership of Kosovo's institutions with the various regional and international stakeholders.

Those parties who benefited the most from the elections have already demonstrated foresight and wisdom in articulating a policy of outreach and inclusion, in counselling restraint in the face of provocative acts of violence and in negotiating mutually agreeable understandings for the formation of a Transitional Government.

(vii) Involve representatives from industry, academia and public sectors in carrying out a comprehensive technology foresight exercise with the purpose of identifying technologies that are likely to help address pressing socio economic issues, and establish priorities accordingly in science and technology policy and governmental programmes on research and education

Both candidates have placed great importance on global warming. Republican John McCain believes that it presents a test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next, while Democrat Barack Obama calls it one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation.

Yet, once again, the Bush administration is preparing to leap into the unknown. Even though lack of foresight is universally viewed as a leading cause of its Iraq debacle, the United States (with British backing probable) is now preparing to recognize Kosovo s independence unilaterally irrespective of the consequences for Europe and the world.

Global forum activities, including the Technology Fair of the Future, as an event of the eleventh General Conference of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in São Paulo, Brazil, in June 2004 awareness building, publications and methodologies on technology foresight an Internet portal for technology roadmapping and guidelines for technology needs assessment.

UNIDO will continue to expand the regional programme on technology foresight, which has become a service of high demand in the region to support the formulation of technology policies and strategies that guide the development of the technological infrastructure, and to provide incentives and assistance to enterprises in technology management and technology transfer, leading to enhanced competitiveness.

UNIDO's activities in fields such as technology foresight, trade facilitation and the implementation of programmes under the Global Environment Facility, the Montreal and Kyoto Protocols and in the UNIDO UNDP Cooperation Programme were examples of how it was imaginatively renewing its mandate to take account of the new global context and the new opportunities that offered.

This lack of foresight about and planning for the aftermath of armed intervention is not only dangerous to the people who have ostensibly been saved it is counterproductive. Unless a humanitarian intervention is structured in such a way that it guarantees basic security, the underlying antagonisms that inspired the intervention in the first place will merely be reinforced, not diminished.

And, if action prevents the problem, the public never experiences the averted calamity, and voters therefore penalize political leaders for the immediate costs that the action entails. Even if politicians have perfect foresight of the disaster that awaits if nothing is done, they may have little ability to persuade voters, or less insightful party members, that the short term costs must be paid.

Baghdad has repeatedly accused the Assad regime of allowing Iraqi funds to be channeled to insurgents, and recently notified the Syrians that the photograph of a senior Syrian intelligence official taken with an Islamist combatant was found on the latter s body in Falluja. As a legitimate Iraqi authority emerges following the elections, the Syrians will have to show foresight in jettisoning their pro Saddam acquaintances.