Foresight Institute

Outputs Seminars and or training courses on technology management and technology foresight road mapping Advisory services on science and technology and innovation policy and relevant action plans Technology foresight sectoral studies Established network groups at the regional national level in relation to technology foresight Upgraded developed tools and methodologies related to technology management, road mapping and technology foresight.

Programme Component D.2 Technology Management and Technology Road mapping and Foresight

On the contrary, it is in such circumstances that calm foresight is most necessary.

Turkey was a donor to and an active participant in the technology foresight seminars.

In its report on the cost of conflict in the Middle East, Strategic Foresight Group estimates that Arab states lost an opportunity to export 10 billion worth of goods to Israel between 2000 2010.

The Cold War came to a peaceful end thanks to realism, foresight, and strength of will.

But Yellen s speeches on financial risks showed more foresight than those of most of her peers.

Unseasoned in the art of politics, the NTC frequently lacks the foresight needed to make critical decisions.

It takes little foresight, however, to predict that more force will not produce more security for Israel.

Technology management, road mapping and foresight are instrumental to support technology diffusion, national innovation systems, and technology capacity building.

We welcome your initiative, your foresight and your sincere determination to make this crucial process truly open and fair.

It is easy to blame people for lack of foresight, but none of the nine hardest hit countries had developed one.

Of particular note is the foresight shown by the court in realizing the importance of e technology in enhancing its work.

Given the political will, the international community also has the foresight, compassion and energy to ensure that it will not fail.

One reason for this lack of foresight was uncritical admiration of financial innovation another was the inherently flawed structure of the eurozone.

Obama can build on this in reconstructing the international financial system, but it will require great tact and foresight on both sides.

As a legitimate Iraqi authority emerges following the elections, the Syrians will have to show foresight in jettisoning their pro Saddam acquaintances.

For whatever reason lack of time, energy, resources, or strategic foresight they have failed to devote sufficient focus and attention to the matter.

By doling out vast sums of money to rescue the financial system, without asking for genuine guarantees in return, they showed a lack of foresight.

It remains to be seen whether this approach requires more foresight and courage than today s political leaders in South Korea, the West, and China can muster.

Since its establishment in February 2000, the UNIDO Centre for Regional Cooperation in Ankara had organized workshops on technology foresight, agro industry and promotion of SMEs.

The secretariat is grateful for the foresight, and the support to UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people, demonstrated by these and other donors in the past.

With great foresight, Europe s leaders concluded that it was their economies lack of integration that was keeping Europe from growing as strongly as the US and Japan.

Whether the consequences of this development will be good or bad depends on whether the region can muster the foresight and strength actively to shape this process.

But the issue is not primarily one of US skill and fortitude. American policies can never be a substitute for the region s own lack of leadership and foresight.

This lack of foresight about and planning for the aftermath of armed intervention is not only dangerous to the people who have ostensibly been saved it is counterproductive.

In June 1871, just after the war ended, the French statesman Léon Gambetta declaimed Our adversaries have won, because they rallied to their side foresight, discipline, and science.

China must exercise the foresight needed to begin paying this debt now, when it is manageable, rather than allowing it to accumulate and, ultimately, threaten to bankrupt us all.

Your vast experience, your foresight and your relentless quest for practical solutions to problems leave me in no doubt that the Conference will make commendable progress during your presidency.

This is the context of our current peculiar vulnerability. What used to protect us (distance, government intervention, foresight, classic defense methods) has been weakened, and now offers little or no protection.

It would be more than a tragedy it would be unparalleled political folly if, because of a lack of commitment and political foresight, the West were to squander its successes in Afghanistan.

A recent study by India s Strategic Foresight Group entitled The Cost of Conflict in the Middle East suggested that the past 20 years of conflict have cost WANA countries some 12 trillion.

Substantial deviation has been observed between the opinions of men and women regarding managerial ability ability for group coordination, foresight, communicating abilities, wit, synthesizing abilities, boldness in promoting innovation, practical disposition, competitiveness.

The former Amir had foresight and worked hard to establish capable institutions which could defend the country internally and externally and that is something which not anyone can do except those who could shoulder responsibility.

We did a project for the Government Office of Science a couple of years ago, a big program called the Foresight program lots and lots of people involved lots of experts everything evidence based a huge tome.

While giving due credit to the foresight of the Organization's founders, we should note that the activities of the United Nations can and should be further advanced in light of modern realities and the prospects for world development.

(Here, I and experts from around the world have been calling for the creation of a Supranational Commission for Water and Energy to ensure the kind of sustainable resource management that the Strategic Foresight Group has labeled Blue Peace. )

BERLIN The world s task in addressing North Korea s saber rattling is made no easier by the fact that it confronts an impoverished and effectively defeated country. On the contrary, it is in such circumstances that calm foresight is most necessary.

So if we have the political and financial foresight to sustain our investments, we will master these and new tools of vaccinology, and with these tools we can produce enough vaccine for everyone at low cost and ensure healthy productive lives.

Republican John McCain believes that it presents a test of foresight, of political courage, and of the unselfish concern that one generation owes to the next, while Democrat Barack Obama calls it one of the greatest moral challenges of our generation.

Since the Chinese government is the direct beneficiary of the currency surplus, it would need to have remarkable foresight to accept this diminution in its power and recognize the advantages of coordinating its economic policies with the rest of the world.

On the latter, it is impressive to see the foresight of the founding fathers of the United Nations when they drafted Chapter VIII of the Charter, since regionalization was then a far cry from today's realities of robust organizations and intense integrative processes.

On behalf of my Government, I would like to commend and thank Mr. Jessen Petersen for his leadership and foresight at the head of UNMIK and for his active diplomacy in promoting a fruitful partnership of Kosovo's institutions with the various regional and international stakeholders.

Those parties who benefited the most from the elections have already demonstrated foresight and wisdom in articulating a policy of outreach and inclusion, in counselling restraint in the face of provocative acts of violence and in negotiating mutually agreeable understandings for the formation of a Transitional Government.