B1 Vertaisarvioimaton kirjoitus tieteellisessä lehdessä
Focused Futures from Finland
Tekijät: Petri Tapio, Sirkka Heinonen
Kustantaja: Sage
Julkaisuvuosi: 2018
Journal: World Futures Review
Vuosikerta: 10
Numero: 2
Aloitussivu: 111
Lopetussivu: 135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1946756718754847
Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.1177/1946756718754847
The purpose of this article is to review the futures studies activities performed in Finland, focusing especially on Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC). The activities include research, education as well as societal interaction and networking. The FFRC has proceeded from a small unit of three devoted persons in 1992 to one of the key futures research institutes in Europe with about fifty staff members, hundreds of research and developmental projects, and more than a thousand publications. Although acknowledging the variety of futures studies topics and approaches nourished by the researchers, we conclude that facilitating expert-based and stakeholder-based futures studies processes is the key competence of the FFRC. Hybrid methods are continuously developed, meaning combinations of more specific techniques. A proper mix of tools and approaches to gather, analyze, organize, and interpret data is always searched for. At the end of the article, we present four scenarios of the future of the FFRC jointly made by the staff.