Abstract
The UK's technology foresight exercise is worth all the effort, according to an independent review published last month by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). The main positive influence of the £6m exercise – which was launched in 1994 to identify key technologies for the future – is in helping to forge networks of contacts between industrialists and academics. The LINK university-industry collaboration scheme, run by the Department of Trade and Industry, is now focused entirely on foresight priorities. Foresight has also helped a new National Microelectronics Institute at Heriot-Watt University to get off the ground. And the exercise has influenced the priorities of the research councils.
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