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Integration of Trend Monitoring into STI Policy

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Monitoring trends is a key requirement for national and corporate policy makers to stay up-to-date with socio-economic and technological transformations, to anticipate emerging developments at the global and local levels, and to use this intelligence to prioritize areas for innovation and investment. This chapter aims at discussing how the results of trend monitoring can be integrated into the process of Science, Technology and Innovation policy formulation and business Research & Development planning processes. The chapter starts with an overview of the relevant innovation literature that gives a background in a broader theoretical context, where the technology monitoring activities can be better justified conceptually. This background provides to generate two models, which will portray positioning and functioning of Global Trend Monitoring in the policy and business planning process. Some practical aspects of how and in what form the results of Global Trend Monitoring should be provided to the target communities of policy makers and business planners are elaborated throughout the chapter.

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Acknowledgements

The author’s contribution was produced within the framework of the Basic Research Programme at the National Research University Higher School of Economics and was supported within the framework of the subsidy granted to the HSE by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Programme. The publication draws upon an earlier work by Klochikhin and Saritas (2011), “Development of an approach for the integration of the results of the Global Technology Trend Monitoring into the S&T policy formulation process”, an unpublished report produced for National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow.

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    Ozcan Saritas

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  1. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

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  2. Institute for Statistical Studies and Ec, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Dirk Meissner

  3. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Sokolov

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Saritas, O. (2016). Integration of Trend Monitoring into STI Policy. In: Gokhberg, L., Meissner, D., Sokolov, A. (eds) Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25628-3_2

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