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...: Futures markets Research methods Management techniques The final review will be coming out in 2006. Börjeson and her colleagues from Sweden create a typology of scenario techniques based on Amara's classification of different types of futures – the probable, possible and preferable futures...

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... education Training Professional education Futures markets I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been (Wayne Gretsky). Since Plato, the Academy has demonstrated remarkable durability and flexibility. Through its long and often turbulent history, it has survived...

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..., and considers their policy implications. Information media Publishing Europe Economic trends Futures markets The term “media” is loosely defined and is used in different contexts to encompass a wide range of sometimes‐different industries and activities. Sometimes media is included as part...

... of business. Information society Europe Futures markets Over the past decade, information and communication technologies (ICT), most obviously in the shape of the Internet and the mobile phone, have dramatically affected almost every aspect of the way we live and work. Moreover...

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... Knowledge Organizations Futures markets foresight/ vol.03, no.06, dec.01 the journal of futures studies, strategic thinking and policy © 2001 MCB UP Limited .553 1463-6689/ 01/050553 article: dreamin(g reality: )a map for seeing the future emma robinson* This paper attempts to provide a number...

... professional legitimacy? As a professional futurist, I am allowed to say `I don t know and `It © MCB UP Limited 2001 Research Futures markets Discipline ...

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... and idealism of vision is what will create an alternative future. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Futures markets Research methods Scenario planning Camford foresight/ vol.02, no.04, aug.00 th e jou rn al of futu res stu dies, strateg ic th inkin g an d p olicy © 2000 Cam ford Publishing Ltd .369 14 63...