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Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers

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Globally, advanced countries and institutions put emphasis on foresight processes that create spaces for structured dialogue with a focus on systemic or transformative innovation. Aligned with the coordination of societal actors the aim is to increase their ability to orient innovation systems to address common challenges. In doing so it increases the relevance of foresight activities and its impacts in the decision-making processes. In order to promote a transformative change in this direction and support the design and implementation of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policies in Brazil, CGEE is shifting the focus of its foresight activities. It is moving from a focus on optimisation to one that builds a bridge between optimisation and contingency at the same time that it invites and embraces uncertainty, complexity and creativity throughout the process. The aim is to use the future as a trigger to spark imagination and expand the collective understanding of the present. These are then translated into actual recommendations for policy design and implementation or into new strategic questions that should be investigated and addressed in order to reorient the Brazilian National Innovation System (NIS).

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Notes

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    The role of methods is to provide support to these three integrating themes.

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    Futures Literacy (Miller 2011a, b).

  3. 3.

    Presentation delivered by Riel Miller in the Futures Literacy UNESCO Knowledge Labs (FL Uknowlab) or Local Scoping Exercises (LSE).

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  1. Center for Strategic Studies and Management in Science, Technology and Innovation, SCS Qd 9, Lote C, Torre C, 4° andar, Salas 401 A 405, Ed. Parque Cidade Corporate, Brasília-DF, CEP 70308-200, Brazil

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  1. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

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  3. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

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Cagnin, C. (2016). STI Foresight in Brazil. In: Gokhberg, L., Meissner, D., Sokolov, A. (eds) Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25628-3_8

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