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Better Data, Better Future: Why the quality of foresight now depends on the quality of data
This blog is the fourth in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first blogs in this series, we made the case that decarbonisation has firmly entered the realpolitik sphere, surviving not because it is
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Decarbonisation in a Populist Age
This blog is the third in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first two blogs, we argued that net zero has been absorbed into realpolitik and defence strategy. Climate action survives because it now
Dec 18, 20257 min read
The Defence-Economy Paradox: Why Decarbonisation Has Become Defence Strategy
This blog is the second in the SIP blog series, a set of blogs shared among the partners of the Sustainable Innovation Pathways project. This cross-border, collaborative effort brings together foresight, financial forecasting and technology readiness levels to understand where companies, industries, and countries can best decarbonise. In the first blog in this series about our Sustainable Innovation Pathways (SIP) initiative, we argued that net zero has moved from being an e
Dec 4, 20256 min read
The UK Government Resilience Action Plan
The Resilience Action Plan , produced by the Cabinet Office, sets out the Government's strategic approach to resilience. The Chancellor...
Oct 2, 20256 min read
Resilience 2.0: Empowering the EU to Thrive amid Turbulence and Uncertainty
The EU’s 2025 Strategic Foresight Report focuses on resilience, dealing with the increasing levels of uncertainty in its environment. It...
Sep 24, 20255 min read
Why Growth? Between Necessity and Reckoning
Ask a minister how we’re going to pay for pensions, fund healthcare, equip the armed forces, support innovation, or build green...
Jul 17, 20255 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 2
THE PROCEEDINGS AND THE IMMEDIATE REACTION In my first blog on the UN Summit of the Future I considered the outcome document: “The Pact...
Jun 4, 20254 min read
The UN Summit of the Future: Part 1
THE OUTCOME DOCUMENT: “PACT FOR THE FUTURE” Introduction In September, 2021, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, published a...
May 29, 20255 min read
Weak signals in Science and Technologies – 2024
The EC’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has recently published a report on technology horizon scanning they conducted during 2024,...
Apr 10, 20255 min read
Heathrow – black swan or white elephant?
It is a week since a fire at an electricity substation forced the closure of Heathrow airport for 24 hours, much to annoyance of several...
Mar 28, 20253 min read
Leadership Intelligence – in the age of AI
The following blog, written by Garry Honey, SAMI Associate, was previously published on Board Agenda at https://boardagenda.com/2025/01/1...
Jan 29, 20253 min read
The Strategic Operating Environment in Finland
As the first step in their annual Report on the Future, the Finnish Prime Minister’s Office has published its view of the “ Strategic...
Dec 19, 20246 min read
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