...Ali Chaparak Purpose The epistemological and institutional legitimacy of futures studies/foresight has been a long-standing topic of debate. This paper explores how the field can generate reliable knowledge about plural and uncertain futures, not through prediction or certainty, but through...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Futures studies Collective foresight intelligence Artificial intelligence Anticipation Emerging countries The term “hope” is not used to persuade but rather to emphasize the need for reflection on human conscience. As Barreto-Galeano et...

... Uncertainty Futures studies Foresight Big data Machine learning Artificial intelligence 001 2018/05144–4 Across decades, futures studies have adapted approaches and tools to cope with uncertain and complex contexts at sectoral, regional and national scales. Over the past 40 years...

... in relation to social issues. Phase 3: Assessing the benefits gained from applying indigenous knowledge into foresight process. Foresight Futures studies Scenario development Indigenous knowledge Traditional knowledge Food For instance, the use of statistic data and trend in foreseeing...

...Alan Clardy Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an ontological foundation for future studies, based in part on integrating some prior albeit incomplete work in this area. Design/methodology/approach This manuscript is based on a literature review, as well as on conceptual...

... the subject has been investigated to review the literature. The authors also designed a process and then a model to test the course. Guilan University of Medical Sciences was selected as a case study for the research. Design/methodology/approach The approach used in this paper is from Future Studies...

..., industry and society (Vishnevskiy et al., 2015). Developing countries Futures studies National foresight programmes Science and technology management This research is mainly aimed to study a number of national foresight activities to identify the existing gap between the current...

... of Iranian governments and introduce alternative futures in a range of possible, plausible and preferable forms of future governance. To carry out a foresight study of alternative futures of Iranian governance, the authors used futures studies, based on the detection of the most critical driving forces...

...Hassan Bashiri; Amir Nazemi; Ali Mobinidehkordi Purpose This paper attempts to apply complex theory in futures studies and addresses prediction challenges when the system is complex. The purpose of the research is to design a framework to engineer the futures in complex systems where components...

..., futures studies and concepts originating from expert opinion, this paper explores futures studies, multiculturalism and international vs local branding in the context of the UAE. Findings The main challenges of operating in this environment include the cultural diversity and sensitivity...