INFU - Innovation futures in europe: A foresight exercise on emerging patterns of innovation. visions, scenarios and implications for policy and practice

Implementation period: 2009.06.01 – 2012.01.31

The INFU Foresight project will develop plausible and relevant long-term scenarios of future innovation landscapes in order to orient long-term strategy building for policy and other innovation actors. The scenarios will outline how future actors may collaborate in new configurations and with new approaches to transform knowledge into products and services within different socio-economic frameworks. To generate this anticipatory intelligence INFU is implementing a progressive explorative dialogue with key stakeholders and experts using advanced creativity methods to foster thinking beyond established pathways and up-to-date prospective methods to structure the debate and ensure rigour of analysis. Particular emphasis is placed on optimising the knowledge flow through tailored and vivid formatting of outcomes for audiences in and outside the project.

Project details:

Project reference: 225229

Total cost: EUR 598 082

EU contribution: EUR 482 889

Programme acronym: FP7-SSH

Subprogramme area: SSH-2007-7.4-01 Blue Sky Research on Emerging Issues Affecting European S&T

Coordinator: AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH, Austria

Project Partners:

• STRATEGIC DESIGN SCENARIOS SPRL, Belgium
• Z_PUNKT GMBH, Germany
• FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V, Germany

More information: http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/91168_en.html