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REVIEW ARTICLE
Foresight in support of European research and innovation policies: The European Commission is preparing the funding of grand societal challenges Jean-Claude Burgelman & Jarka Chloupková & Werner Wobbe
Received: 26 September 2014 / Accepted: 28 November 2014 / Published online: 10 December 2014 # The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abstract A foresight hub within the Directorate General Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of the European Commission will support the decision-making procedures of the EU Horizon 2020 research, technology, and innovation programme. Foresight in particular is seen as an instrument defining research priorities for European society’s needs in support of the ‘grand societal challenges’. The new initiative marks the recent success of the institutional and administrative application of foresight and derives from a long history of approaches to foresight taken by the European Commission. In fact, the Commission has been implementing measures to both internalise and externalise foresight during various periods since the 1970s. This paper outlines the various phases and approaches of foresight at the European Commission. It contextualises the new attempt of the foresight hub that is assumed to support the next European Commission’s research and innovation policies.
Keywords European Commission . Horizon 2020 . Administrative foresight . Good governance
The authors have worked in relation to foresight activities of the European Commission over time. However, the views expressed in this article are these of the authors and might not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. The authors are grateful to Nikos Kastrinos and Rene von Schomberg for comments on this article. This article is part of the Topical Collection on The Future of Europe, guest-edited by Markus Pausch. J.
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