Synthesis Report
This is THE FISTERA SYNTHESIS REPORT KEY FACTORS DRIVING THE FUTURE INFORMATION SOCIETY
IN THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA edited by RAMON COMPAÑÓ, CORINA PASCU, & JEAN-CLAUDE BURGELMAN
and drawing on material from MICHAEL RADER, KNUD BOEHLE (ITAS-FZK)
ROBERTO SARACCO, GRAZIELLA SPINELLI (TILAB)
BERNHARD DACHS, MATTHIAS WEBER, SAMI MAHROUM (ARC-SYS)
and RAFAEL POPPER, IAN MILES, LAWRENCE GREEN (PREST)
contents include:
SOCIAL DRIVERS AND CHALLENGES - Changing Social Relationships; Leisure and Recreation; Ageing Population; Health:Cultural Diversity and Migration' Transport and Mobility' Learning and Education; Social Welfare / Public Services; Government; Security;
THE HUMAN FACTOR Skills Shortages etc.
THE POLITICAL ENVIRONMENT inc Foresight Studies in the EU Member States
TECHNOLOGICAL DRIVERS Trajectories; European Position in ICT; Technology Disruptions etc.

IanMiles-EncuentroCAFporlaCompetitividad.pdf (application/pdf Object)
this is the pdf version of my powerpoint presentation "Foresight" at the recent CAF Conference in Caracas. The focus is on drawing lessons from Foresight experience in Europe for the Latin American activity in the are - especially as applied to competitiveness.

FISTERA workshop report
This is Ian Miles, Rafael Popper, Lawrence Green 2003
Exploring Emerging Applications: Report of the FISTERA Trends, Drivers & Challenges Workshop (workshop held on 16th - 17th June 2004, Seville, Spain)

A draft report - still waiting for feedback from participants, and a little more structuring underway. Scenhario workshop concerning IT applications a decade otr so hence, esp.in fields like ageing, culture... Contents are:

The Key Results of the Workshop

The Workshop Process

Technology Functions and Applications

Scenarios and Issues

Research Needs

Conclusions

Annexe 1 – Participants and Agenda

Annexe 2 – Detailed Quantitative Results

Annexe 3 – Detailed Qualitative Results

Annexe 4 – IST Delphi

Annexe 5 – Instructions and Other Material Used in Workshop

Annexe 6 – Evaluation of the Workshop

Combatting The Surveillance Industrial Complex

This is an ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union - report on
The Privatization of Surveillance

"The U.S. security establishment is rapidly increasing its ability to monitor average Americans by hiring or compelling private-sector corporations to provide billions of customer records. The explosive growth in surveillance by government and business is creating a "Surveillance Industrial Complex" that threatens all of our privacy"

CRIC Papers
The Tether et al analysis of CIS data is online – I should have known!
Go to: B Tether, I Miles; K Blind. C Hipp; N de Liso and G Cainelli 2002 on Innovation in the Service Sector: Analysis of Data collected under the CIS2
University of Manchester, CRIC Working paper no 11 ISBN 1 8402 006X –
available as http://les1.man.ac.uk/usercgi/cric/cricpaperdl.asp?paper=wp11

PREST - Science and Technology Policy and Innovation Studies at Manchester
This website now carries the report, never before available electronically:
I Miles, N Kastrinos (with K Flanagan) & R Bilderbeek, P den Hertog (with W Huitink & M Bouman) 1995 Knowledge-Intensive Business Services: Users, Carriers and Sources of Innovation
Luxembourg, European Innovation Monitoring Service, Publication no. 15 (ed/d-00801 mas)

CORDIS: Science and Technology Foresight: Country Guides to Regional Foresight
14 different versions of M Keenan and I Miles (eds) 2003
Practical Guide to Regional Foresight in [name of country] Luxembourg, European Commission, EUR 20478, ISBN 92 894 4682 X
These have been localised with c 10 pages each of nationally specific material. Versions for accession countries and some Latin American countries are in preparation, too.

Though it is in a regular print journal, I have found a version of this paper on the web:

Technology Futures Analysis Methods Working Group, 2004
(Alan L. Porter, Brad Ashton, Guenter Clar, Joseph F. Coates, Kerstin Cuhls, Scott W. Cunningham, Ken Ducatel, Patrick van der Duin, Luke Georghiou, Theodore Gordon, Harold Linstone, Vincent Marchau, Gilda Massari, Ian Miles, Mary Mogee, Ahti Salo, Fabiana Scapolo, Ruud Smits and Wil Thissen)
“Technology Futures Analysis: Toward Integration Of The Field & New Methods”
Technological Forecasting and Social Change Volume 71, Issue 3 , March 2004, pp 287-303
Online at http://www.tpac.gatech.edu/papers/TFM.pdf

You can find the SYNTHESIS REPORT for the EUFORIA project, written by Denis Loveridge and Ian Miles, but drawing on contributions from many others, here. European Foundation: Publications go to
European knowledge society foresight: the Euforia project synthesis (report)
Also other publications in which we had a hand (such as the delphi report).

My presentation Three Worlds of Foresight
A keynote paper presented at the US-European Technology Forecasting and Assessment Conference, Seville, May 2004, will soon be available. In the meantime the powerpoints are at:
3 worlds!!

PACE 95
This contains an extended summary of the AD-EMPLOY project on advanced communications and employment, carried out with Ken Ducatel and Jeremy Millard in the mid-90's.

Institute of Innovation Research, 2003
(main author Ian Miles, coauthors G Barreto, K Flanagan, L Green, S Jackson, A James, KMalik, G May, G M P Swann and Bruce Tether).
Knowing How, Knowing Whom: A Study of the Links between the Knowledge Intensive Services Sector and The Science Base
Mimeo, IOIR; Report to the Council for Science and Technology
Available at: http://www.cst.gov.uk/cst/reports/files/knowledge-intensive-services/services-study.pdf
This was actually published in October 2003, but they forgot to tell us!

Prospecting Bioscience for the Future of Non-Food Uses of Crops This is the report using a scenario workshop,
Institute of Innovation Research, 2003
(Steve Glynn, Mark Harvey, Andrew McMeekin, Ian Miles)
Prospecting Bioscience for the Future of Non-Food Uses of Crops
Report to The Government Industry Forum on Non Food Uses of Crops, December

Innovation in the Service Sector
This is a surprising online source for the PDF of:
CRIC/IDSE/ISE, 2001
(CRIC authors: B Tether, I Miles; FhG-ISI: K Blind and C Hipp; IDSE-CNR: N de Liso and G Cainelli )
Analysis of CIS Data on Innovation in the Service Sector: Final Report
report to European Commission DG12, CRIC, University of Manchester 112pp
available at: http://www.kiet.re.kr/files/econo/20021230-inno.pdf