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7 April 2021

Building global anticipatory innovation governance capacity

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020

On March 11-12, 2021, more than 450 futures, foresight and innovation experts from 72 countries around the world gathered digitally to discuss the latest on anticipatory innovation governance. Over three sessions, the emerging Anticipatory Innovation…

Piret Tõnurist

7 April 2021

Anticipatory innovation governance model – humble, yet ambitious

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020

Anticipatory innovation governance model – humble, yet ambitious Governments tend to look like powerful, overwhelming forces that are difficult to stop or change. Juggernauts if you will. Yet governments over decades have reformed a lot:…

Angela Hanson

6 April 2021

Anticipatory innovation tools and methods: Closing the impact gap

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020

Tools and methods for innovation, anticipation, and strategic foresight are a perennially popular topic and several hundred members of the global public sector anticipatory innovation tools community gathered to take stock of promise and pitfalls…

Joshua Polchar

6 April 2021

Governments: Governing or Governed?

Anticipatory Innovation, H2020, Strategic Foresight

In April 1912, an icon set sail from Southampton, heading into the future and making history at the same time. The Titanic, “ship of dreams”, was the height of technological achievement. Retrospectively referred to as…

anticipatory innovation anticipatory innovation governance future futures and foresight Public Sector strategic foresight strategy

Chiara Bleckenwegner

24 March 2021

Lessons from the 2021 Mission-oriented Innovation Simulation

H2020, How to innovate, Innovation Facets, Innovation Toolkit, Mission-Oriented Innovation

Mission-oriented innovation helps the public sector direct innovation towards grand societal challenges. In the face of today’s wicked problems – from plastic pollution to rising inequalities – interest in mission-oriented innovation is growing across OECD…

Heather Buisman

11 January 2021

Government After Shock – Looking back on 2020 and ahead to 2021

Covid-19, Government After Shock, H2020

A reflection on a year of crisis and a deliberate start to 2021 While many of us are ready to dive into 2021 and never look back, we can’t race towards “normal”. We are facing…