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Where are science and technology heading in the decades ahead? All leading industrial nations have been looking for plausible answers to this question. Government agencies and industry - particularly in Japan and the US - have been carrying out technological studies in recent years to gather facts and arguments for their research planning. This article gives a brief introduction of some of the methodologies for foresight in science and technology used in Germany. As Germany recently has started to work in this field on federal and state level, an overview of the recent German experiences in technology foresight will be provided, focusing on two methodologies including a German Delphi inquiry which is modeled like the Japanese Delphi inquiries and the relevance tree approach. The concluding chapter briefly discusses how these government activities may be and are now effectively used for different purposes.
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Breiner, S. (1996). Foresight in Science and Technology. In: Inzelt, A., Coenen, R. (eds) Knowledge, Technology Transfer and Foresight. NATO ASI Series, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0351-7_13
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