Sandro Mendonça is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. His work has been published in a wide range of journals including Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Long Range Planning, Technology Analysis and Strategic Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Futures and Journal of Economic Issues. He is member of the executive board of Obercom (the Portuguese media watch) and member of the executive committee of EconTel (Telecommunications Economics COST Network). He is a consultant on matters of corporate innovation strategy and intellectual property public policy.Bartolomeo Sapio received his Doctor Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering summa cum laude at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and is currently a researcher with Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. He has carried out methodological research in the field of scenario analysis, developing the original methods WISE, SEARCH and GIMMICKS, and applying them to multimedia, broadband networks, the Internet, mobile services and the convergence between fixed and mobile networks. He is currently chairman of COST (COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research).

• Selected Contents: Introduction: New perspectives and practices for managing foresight in changing organisational settings Sandro Mendonça and Bartolomeo Sapio 1. Business wargaming: developing foresight within a strategic simulation Jan Oliver Schwarz 2. Weak signals as a flexible framing space for enhanced management and decision-making Pierre Rossel 3. Exploring the weak signals of starts-ups as a folksonomic system Olivier Glassey 4. Keeping the balance: exploring the link of futures research with innovation and strategy processes Patrick A. van der Duin and Erik den Hartigh 5. Changing perspectives on foresight and strategy: from foresight project management to the management of change in collective strategic elaboration processes Sébastien Treyer 6. Green technology foresight of high technology: a social shaping of technology approach to the analysis of hopes and hypes Michael Søgaard Jørgensen and Ulrik Jørgensen 7. Management of foresight portfolio: analysis of modular foresight projects at contract research organisation Totti Könnölä, Toni Ahlqvist, Annele Eerola, Sirkku Kivisaari and Raija Koivisto 8. e-Government 2015: exploring m-government scenarios, between ICT-driven experiments and citizen-centric implications Gianluca C. Misuraca 9. Universities and the emerging new players: building futures for higher education Attila Havas

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Sandro Mendonça is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. His work has been published in a wide range of journals including Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Long Range Planning, Technology Analysis and Strategic Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Futures and Journal of Economic Issues. He is member of the executive board of Obercom (the Portuguese media watch) and member of the executive committee of EconTel (Telecommunications Economics COST Network). He is a consultant on matters of corporate innovation strategy and intellectual property public policy.Bartolomeo Sapio received his Doctor Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering summa cum laude at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and is currently a researcher with Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. He has carried out methodological research in the field of scenario analysis, developing the original methods WISE, SEARCH and GIMMICKS, and applying them to multimedia, broadband networks, the Internet, mobile services and the convergence between fixed and mobile networks. He is currently chairman of COST (COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research).

• Selected Contents: Introduction: New perspectives and practices for managing foresight in changing organisational settings Sandro Mendonça and Bartolomeo Sapio 1. Business wargaming: developing foresight within a strategic simulation Jan Oliver Schwarz 2. Weak signals as a flexible framing space for enhanced management and decision-making Pierre Rossel 3. Exploring the weak signals of starts-ups as a folksonomic system Olivier Glassey 4. Keeping the balance: exploring the link of futures research with innovation and strategy processes Patrick A. van der Duin and Erik den Hartigh 5. Changing perspectives on foresight and strategy: from foresight project management to the management of change in collective strategic elaboration processes Sébastien Treyer 6. Green technology foresight of high technology: a social shaping of technology approach to the analysis of hopes and hypes Michael Søgaard Jørgensen and Ulrik Jørgensen 7. Management of foresight portfolio: analysis of modular foresight projects at contract research organisation Totti Könnölä, Toni Ahlqvist, Annele Eerola, Sirkku Kivisaari and Raija Koivisto 8. e-Government 2015: exploring m-government scenarios, between ICT-driven experiments and citizen-centric implications Gianluca C. Misuraca 9. Universities and the emerging new players: building futures for higher education Attila Havas

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Sandro Mendonça is a lecturer at the Department of Economics, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute. His work has been published in a wide range of journals including Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Long Range Planning, Technology Analysis and Strategic Change, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Futures and Journal of Economic Issues. He is member of the executive board of Obercom (the Portuguese media watch) and member of the executive committee of EconTel (Telecommunications Economics COST Network). He is a consultant on matters of corporate innovation strategy and intellectual property public policy.Bartolomeo Sapio received his Doctor Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering summa cum laude at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and is currently a researcher with Fondazione Ugo Bordoni. He has carried out methodological research in the field of scenario analysis, developing the original methods WISE, SEARCH and GIMMICKS, and applying them to multimedia, broadband networks, the Internet, mobile services and the convergence between fixed and mobile networks. He is currently chairman of COST (COoperation in the field of Scientific and Technical research).

• Selected Contents: Introduction: New perspectives and practices for managing foresight in changing organisational settings Sandro Mendonça and Bartolomeo Sapio 1. Business wargaming: developing foresight within a strategic simulation Jan Oliver Schwarz 2. Weak signals as a flexible framing space for enhanced management and decision-making Pierre Rossel 3. Exploring the weak signals of starts-ups as a folksonomic system Olivier Glassey 4. Keeping the balance: exploring the link of futures research with innovation and strategy processes Patrick A. van der Duin and Erik den Hartigh 5. Changing perspectives on foresight and strategy: from foresight project management to the management of change in collective strategic elaboration processes Sébastien Treyer 6. Green technology foresight of high technology: a social shaping of technology approach to the analysis of hopes and hypes Michael Søgaard Jørgensen and Ulrik Jørgensen 7. Management of foresight portfolio: analysis of modular foresight projects at contract research organisation Totti Könnölä, Toni Ahlqvist, Annele Eerola, Sirkku Kivisaari and Raija Koivisto 8. e-Government 2015: exploring m-government scenarios, between ICT-driven experiments and citizen-centric implications Gianluca C. Misuraca 9. Universities and the emerging new players: building futures for higher education Attila Havas

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