Foresight and STI Policy
On November 1–2, 2017, Higher School of Economics will host its 7th Annual International Academic Conference "Foresight and STI Policy" was organised by HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge. This year, the conference was devoted to the role of society in search for grand responses to grand challenges.
Five years ago, participants of 2nd Foresight conference examined promising, future-oriented research areas and dynamics of breakthrough technologies, discussing them for the first time in the context of global trends and grand challenges.
The Program of 7th Foresight Conference was based on the search for effective grand responses to grand challenges both by science and technology, and by society, which simultaneously acts as the subject of social processes that cause the emergence and spread of grand challenges, and as the object of their impact. The relevance of this agenda is further confirmed by various provisions of the Strategy for the Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation adopted in late 2016. The conference featured presentations by distinguished world-class Foresight experts and leading national futurologists.
On November 2, 2017, the conference featured a special workshop “Perspectives of Science and Technology in BRICS Countries” which examined trends of S&T development in BRICS states and identified priorities for international cooperation in STI based on mutual interest and available competences.
Following the conference, the annual meeting of the International Advisory Board of HSE ISSEK Foresight Center was held. The Center acts as a Regional UNIDO centre for Technology Foresight in Russia and the CIS.
Registration (was open until October 29, 2017)