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Mapping Wild Cards

Inspired by: interviews » Science, technology and innovation will be directed towards relatively radical, sustainable and equity enhancing innovation

version: 5 / updated: 2011-10-21
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Originally submitted by: Ivan Montenegro Perini
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Source of inspiration

Interviews

The source of the Wild Card is

Clem Bezold, "Founder and Chairman Institute of Alternative Futures", Interviewed by MIoIR

Headline

(max. 9 words)

Science, technology and innovation will be directed towards relatively radical, sustainable and equity enhancing innovation

Description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)
We end poverty as we know it and it is more complex than that because there is poverty of mind and poverty of spirit and poverty of physical things and this could end poverty of physical/material things over 20 years if we focused research and development appropriately. I would say if there are weak signals of that I would say look at that the actors on the building rung of the pyramid movement and the innovation there. For example, there is the thing called the Jaipur Foot a prosthetic foot and students as Stanford got together with the makers of the foot and made a prosthetic leg and legs can cost $5,000 to $30,000 and these guys developed the leg so it cost a $100 or a couple of hundred and that is an example of the kind of potential for building and for inventing.

Keywords

technology, innovation, poverty, science

Likelihood

Closest timeframe for at least 50% likelihood
Please use one of the following options:
now-2050

Type of event

Human planned (e.g. terrorist attack or funded scientific breakthrough)

Type of emergence

please select (if any) describe related trend or situation
A new development/situation
(e.g. a Romani state is established in central Europe; A message from an alien civilisation existing on a distant planet is received and understood, etc.

Type of systems affected

Human-built Systems - E.g. organisations, processes, technologies, etc.

Classification

Mixed

Importance

please specify:
please select
Level 1: important for a particular country
Level 2: important for a particular world region
Level 3: important for the European Union
Level 4: important for the whole world

Latent phase

Obstacles for early indentification

institutional filters (rules, laws, regulations)
economic filters (business/market interests)
political filters (party or ideological interests)
social filters (class, status, education level)

Aftermath phase

Important implications
Emergence of a new system (e.g. new technologies, new paradigms)

Relevance for Grand Challenges

where? please justify:
particularly relevant Europe world
Behavioural change
Governance and trust in democracy
Social exclusion & poverty
Social cohesion and diversity
Economic prosperity/dynamics

Relevance for thematic research areas

please justify:
particularly relevant
Health
Social Sciences and Humanities

Pan-European strategies potentially helping to deal with the wild card

please justify:
particularly relevant
Strengthening research institutions and universities
Facilitating and promoting knowledge sharing and transfer

 Features of a research-friendly ecology contributing to deal with the wild card

For further information about 'research-friendly strategies' click here

please justify:
particularly relevant
Addressing cohesion through a localised articulation between supply and demand
(e.g. making research institutions more engaged with their own context and local users; reinforcing knowledge flows into and out of regions; etc.
Creating a closer link between researchers & policy-makers
(e.g. supporting both thematic and cross-cutting policies, highlighting the strategic purpose of the European Research Area, etc.