Getting Started · shaping our future. Whether you are a practitioner, ... and research/education actors from around the world. ... design a Foresight exercise with a group of participants,

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) in partnership with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

MANCHESTER 2-6 JULY 2018

The ART of Foresight & Sustainable Futures Anticipating, Recommending and Transforming Research and Innovation (R&I) futures

Inside This Agenda

Getting Started 1

Monday programme 2

Tuesday programme 3

Wednesday programme 4

Thursday programme 5

Friday programme 6

Joining the Foresight Hub 6

Getting Started

Become a member of a special group of people who are personally and professionally interested in activities aimed at shaping our future. Whether you are a practitioner, researcher, organizer or sponsor of Foresight, you will find this course contributing towards your career and personal development, and your understanding of how present actions can be linked to future prospects. Building on over twenty years of Foresight experience, we are able to call upon a wealth of expertise, from staff with know-how of the practice of Foresight, as well as from promoters and users. The course now runs in partnership with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, a leading global research and technology development organisation, which makes the programme richer as we can offer a wider range of examples about the use of Foresight by multiple types of stakeholders, including business, government, civil society and research/education actors from around the world. The course builds on a set of interactive lectures reinforced with practical work in groups. During the week, you will design a Foresight exercise with a group of participants, supported by facilitators. This will enable you to bring together different elements covered in the course and apply them to a real life case. Get ready to learn the concepts and practice of Foresight. Prof. Rafael Popper Course Director

Join our 2018 course!

1

WITH FORESIGHT THE SKY IS THE LIMIT

Day 1 Practical exercise

Selecting your exercise

Need for SMART objectives

Justifying your exercise

Need for Participatory approaches

Need for Prospective approaches

Need for Policy approaches

Designing your exercise

What type of Interaction

What type of Creativity

What type of Evidence

What type of Expertise

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE MIOIR in partnership with VTT

MANCHESTER 2 JULY 2018

Scoping phase Why and how to design a Foresight exercise?

Monday programme

Introduction to the course

Icebreaking peer interviews

The History of Foresight

Foresight Process & Fundamentals

Foresight Methodology & Methods

Practical exercise

;�Scoping phase

2

Location Executive Education Centre Alliance Manchester Business School Booth Street West / High Cambridge St.

Time Session title

09.00 – 09.15 Registration with Welcoming Tea & Coffee

09.15 – 10.00 Interactive Tour de Table with peer interviews

10.00 – 10.45 The History of Foresight (I. Miles)

10.45 – 11.00 Tea and Coffee

11.00 – 11.45 Foresight Process & Fundamentals (R. Popper)

11.45 – 12.30 The real value of Foresight (E. Amanatidou)

12.30 – 13.00 Interactive Q&A (MIOIR -VTT Teams)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 The many faces of Foresight (I. Miles)

14.45 – 15.30 Foresight Methodology & Methods (R. Popper)


15.45 – 17.45 Interactive Practical Exercise (MIOIR-VTT Teams)

19.00 Networking dinner @ Albert's Shed (Castlefield)

Monday The beginning is the most important part of the work (Plato)


Day 2 practical exercise

Defining key roles

Appointing a project manager

Appointing a group rapporteur

Appointing task leaders

Planning resources

Person-days efforts

Project budget

Participatory approaches

Internal meetings

External meetings

Digital-backed activities


Mobilising phase Who and how to engage in a Foresight exercise?

Tuesday

Tuesday programme

Enabling participation

Sponsors and champions

Mobilising key resources

Collective intelligence

Co-creating regional strategies

Practical exercise

;�Mobilising phase

3


Time Session title

09.00 – 09.15 Tea & Coffee

09.15 – 10.00 Enabling participation (R. Popper & J. Myllyoja)

10.00 – 10.45 Interactive Discussion (MIOIR -VTT Teams)


11.00 – 11.45 Engaging sponsors and champions (I. Miles)

11.45 – 12.30 Mobilising key resources (E. Amanatidou)


13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 Stimulating collective intelligence (J. Ravetz)

14.45 – 15.30 Co-creating regional strategies (E. Uyarra)



Free evening

Managing the Pig & Chicken Dilemma


Scanning the Horizon

Top-down vs. Bottom-up

Inward vs. Outward Looking

Mapping Critical Issues

Mapping Drivers

Mapping Barriers

Mapping Threats

Mapping Opportunities

Co-creating Futures

Scenario Framing

Scenario Construction & Analysis



Anticipating phase How to explore and (co)create possible futures?

Wednesday programme

Horizon Scanning

Wild Cards & Weak Signals

Anticipating R&I Opportunities

The Delphi Technique

Scenario Fundamentals

Practical exercise

;�Anticipating phase

4

Wednesday We cannot predict the future, but we can invent it (D. Gábor)


Time Session title

09.00 – 09.15 Tea & Coffee

09.15 – 10.00 Horizon Scanning (E. Amanatidou & R. Popper)



11.00 – 11.45 Wild Cards & Weak Signals (R. Popper)

11.45 – 12.30 Anticipating R&I opportunities (E. Turunen)


13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 The Delphi Technique (R. Popper & I. Miles)

14.45 – 15.30 Scenario Fundamentals & Applications (I. Miles)



19.00 Networking dinner @ eastZeast (Riverside)

Day 4 practical exercise

Prioritising critical issues

Importance vs. Governability

Gaining competitive intelligence

Using bibliometric & patent analysis

Developing multi-level advice

Strategic / Tactical / Operational

Developing an action roadmap

Context dimension

People dimension

Process dimension

Impact dimension



Recommending phase How to develop sound advice for decision-makers?

Thursday

Thursday programme

Qualitative Modelling & Visualisation

Tech Mining and Forecasting

Roadmapping Fundamentals

Foresight in the STI Policy Mix

From Insights to Multi-level Advice

Practical exercise

;�Recommending phase

5


Time Session title

09.00 – 09.15 Tea & Coffee

09.15 – 10.00 Qualitative Modelling and Visualisation (J. Ravetz)



11.00 – 11.45 Tech Mining and Forecasting (A. Suominen)

11.45 – 12.30 Roadmapping Fundamentals (R. Popper)


13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 Foresight in the STI Policy Mix (J. Edler)

14.45 – 15.30 From Insights to Multi-level Advice (R. Popper)



Free evening

Promoting multi-level and multi-stakeholder actions


Selecting key results

Selecting SMART Objectives

Selecting Key Practices

Selecting Key Outcomes

Selecting Key Players

Preparing the final pitch

Group Presentation

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIOIR) in partnership with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Joining the Foresight Hub

www.foresighthub.wordpress.com


Transforming phase How to produce sustainable and impactful results?

Friday programme

Promoting Industry Foresight

Foresight Process Impacts

Evaluating Foresight

Practical exercise

;�Transforming phase

6

Friday Enabling and evaluating multi-systemic transformations


Time Session title

09.00 – 09.15 Tea & Coffee

09.15 – 10.00 Promoting Industry Foresight (C. Chanduvi)



11.00 – 11.30 Foresight Process impacts (E. Amanatodou)

11.30 – 12.00 Evaluating Foresight (R. Popper & I. Miles)

12.00 – 13.00 Interactive Group Work (Practical results)

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 14.45 Interactive Group Presentations (Open feedback)

14.45 – 15.30 Interactive Discussion + “Graduation” (Certificates)

15.30 – 15.45 Foresight Hub Invitation + Farewell Drink

15.45 – 17.45 Interactive Networking (optional)

Free evening

Getting Started · shaping our future. Whether you are a practitioner, ... and research/education actors from around the world. ... design a Foresight exercise with a group of participants,

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