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Facilitating the Future

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Happy Futures? Szogs cites Future Center pioneer Leif Edvinsson’s iconic salutation, while recognizing that things don’t always turn out that way. Futures are not necessarily happy, certainly not for everyone, even when we work hard at trying to make them so. We don’t always get what we prepare for, but we do have to put in the work, otherwise we must make do with what we are unprepared for.

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    Hank Kune

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  1. , ZLW/IMA & IfU - Faculty of Mechanical En, RWTH Aachen University, Dennewartstraße 27, Aachen, 52068, Germany

    Sabina Jeschke

  2. , ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Dennewartstraße 27, Aachen, 52068, Germany

    Ingrid Isenhardt

  3. ZLW, ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Dennewartstraße 27, Aachen, 52068, Germany

    Frank Hees

  4. , ZLW/IMA & IfU, RWTH Aachen, Dennewartstraße 27, Aachen, 52068, Germany

    Sven Trantow

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Kune, H. (2011). Facilitating the Future. In: Jeschke, S., Isenhardt, I., Hees, F., Trantow, S. (eds) Enabling Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24503-9_41

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