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TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Volume 77, Issue 7, Pages 1061-1075Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2010.03.003
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Scenarios; Roadmapping; Foresight; Clean production; Sustainability; Manufacturing; Dry machining
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Roadmapping and scenarios are two widely used futures techniques which help R&D managers set priorities for research. These techniques are combined in a Foresight exercise assessing development of clean production in metal manufacturing, drawing on the European CLEANPROD project. The aim of the project is to develop a set of roadmaps for metal processing R&D to achieve breakthrough sustainability - clean production. Scenarios, a frequently used Foresight method, are used to set the context for the exercise, inform the design of technology roadmaps and influence the wider policy context. Roadmaps are developed for three process areas of metal manufacture - surface preparation, machining and coating - on four levels including long run visions up to 2020, interim targets up to 2015, key R&D areas and specific project topics. Roadmaps are appraised in the light of alternative scenarios on the future of manufacturing. Promoting sustainability highlights gaps in a business as usual roadmap, suggesting a different portfolio of research projects. A revised overall scenario is used to shape public policy. R&D teams usually adopt one particular methodology to support resource allocation. However joint use of futures techniques helps if there is uncertainty over competing alternative technologies. Roadmapping often focuses on a single future. Scenario building as a Foresight technique introduces multiple futures thinking. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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