Public Participation in Developing a Common Framework for the Assessment and Management of Sustainable Innovation

The ART of Foresight and Sustainable Futures course

Anticipating, recommending and transforming research and innovation futures  

The world is experiencing great uncertainties about the unfolding economic crisis and its aftershocks. Many countries, industries and public services face challenging futures where the quest for opportunities is increasingly competitive. Economic discontent has combined with existing political stresses to catch many institutions - and countries - wrong-footed. Meanwhile, globalisation, migration, environmental, political and technological trends are reshaping the rules of the game. This calls for critical reflections on existing assumptions, plans and strategies for the long-term future. Our foresight course explores ways in which decision-makers can address uncertainties. How to produce sound and forward looking results that are useful for decision-makers?

The Manchester Institute of Innovation Research has been running an annual foresight training course since 1999. Building on over twenty years of foresight experience, we are able to call upon a wealth of expertise, from staff with know-how of the practice of foresight, as well as from sponsors and practitioners.

For more information please visit https://www.mioir.manchester.ac.uk/study/short-courses/art-of-foresight-and-sustainable-studies/ 

Vehicle Tracking & Traffic Management System

VTMS "Vehicle Tracking & Traffic Monitoring System" is a system used to control/monitor traffic system. It is a combination of Two Devices and Some Sensors. Some Sensors will be placed at every Traffic Signal Points and at different areas, Some are at every Vehicles. Two devices / (would be Mobile), one for Traffic Sargent & another for Drivers as well as the owner of commercial vehicle. This will decrease the no. of accident.

CASI-F: Common Framework for the Assessment and Management of Sustainable Innovation

This report is the final version of CASI-F: A Common Framework for Assessment and Management of Sustainable Innovation. The framework was informed by a number of preceding tasks and includes inputs from seminars and workshops with a wide range of societal stakeholders, as well as recommendations and feedback gathered from innovators during the mapping of sustainable innovation (SI) initiatives and piloting of CASI-F implementation. The testimonies of stakeholders are therefore presented within the report, in order to further validate the versatility, usefulness and effectiveness of CASI-F, as perceived by its users. The report presents the core of the CASI-F methodology, consisting of five mutually reinforcing sets of protocols and tools (or steps) that constitute the framework, namely: (Step 1) sustainability relevance and scanning; (Step 2) multi-criteria analysis and assessment; (Step 3) critical issue analysis and assessment; (Step 4) multi-level advice management; and (Step 5) action roadmaps management. Although the report marks the final contractual stop of the CASI-F journey, it also highlights the way forward and the potential for a new sustainability assessment and management framework (CASI-F) to thrive beyond the life of the project. Moreover, to further advance the uptake of CASI-F in Europe and the world, a free online training course on ‘Sustainable Innovation Assessment and Management: Widening Horizons on climate action, environment, resource e ciency and raw materials’ was developed by the authors to promote mobilisation and mutual learning in sustainable innovation and related topics. The course is available at https://www.futuresdiamond.com/casi2020/tutorial/

Strengthening sustainable innovation policy with CASI tools - Insights from and for Germany

Sustainable innovation forms the basis for the new solutions of and opportunities for the future although it has not yet achieved an established programmatic policy position. The CASI project has developed a set of tools, which can strengthen the development of sustainable innovation policy. This set of tools includes a data bank, a citizen engagement methodology, citizen agendas and a framework for sustainable innovation. This policy brief reviews and showcases how these SI tools can be used when strengthening sustainable innovation policy. In Germany, the identified policy need is to support the creation of new forms of dialogue and joint solution development between different stakeholder groups or political levels and the involvement and empowerment of civil society and citizens.

Strengthening sustainable innovation policy with CASI tools - Insights from and for Slovenia

Sustainable innovation forms the basis for the new solutions of and opportunities for the future although it has not yet achieved an established programmatic policy position. The CASI project has developed a set of tools, which can strengthen the development of sustainable innovation policy. This set of tools includes a data bank, a citizen engagement methodology, citizen agendas and a framework for sustainable innovation. This policy brief reviews and showcases how these SI tools can be used when strengthening sustainable innovation policy. In Slovenia, the holistic approach towards public consultation as a way to obtain sustainable innovation was identified as a key policy need. All presented CASI tools prove as useful in preparing public consultations. The citizen engagement methodology is considered applicable for development of unified methodology for organisation of public consultations.