Sciences, Summary

The paper addresses how future-oriented technology analysis (encompassing mainly foresight, forecasting and technology assessment approaches) can address societal issues and challenges and have impacts to private and/or public sector decision-making and actions, in particular in relation to sustainability and security. Whereas the paper reports some findings on the future of sustainability and security, even more important, it aims at providing evidence how FTA projects, in particular foresight, have been applied and what have been their impacts especially on policy-making. Towards this end, the paper examines selected foresight cases around the world. The paper explores how foresight activities in sustainability and security have had impact to policy-making as well as how policy sphere has influenced on conducting foresight and in more general FTA activities