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Competence Centre on Foresight

We foster a strategic, future-oriented and anticipatory culture in the EU policymaking process.

Topic / Tool | Last updated: 08 Nov 2024

Technology Foresight

- anticipating emerging technologies and their potential impacts.

Brief me

  • Technology foresight is a systematic exercise for identifying emerging, disruptive and/or critical technologies, and to anticipate their potential future impact. In this type of analysis, you can identify factors that could drive, hinder or enable their take-up, and identify possible policy implications.

  • It supports European institutions as they prepare for technological advances, including possible opportunities and challenges related to emerging, disruptive technologies.

  • The Competence Centre on Foresight uses the power of collective intelligence to explore the emerging technologies landscape. We do this with diverse stakeholders, using a systems thinking approach. 

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