Dr Rafael Popper
Principal Scientist (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd)
Innovation Director & CEO (Futures Diamond Ltd)Rafael Popper's contributions to iKnow
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Dr Popper has worked as expert or consultant for the European Commission, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), World Bank, United Nations Economic and Social Council, UN-REDD, among others. He has also been Director of iKnow; Leader of the Mapping activities of the European Foresight Platform (EFP) and Principal Investigator of MIoIR Horizon Scanning activities in the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CfWI).
Dr Popper has been Scientific Coordinator and Principal Investigator in several European Union funded foresight initiatives and his main areas of work include: ‘foresight’ as an instrument of policy, the development of foresight and horizon scanning methodology, the design of forward-looking activities and their evaluation. He has been member of the European Commission’s Expert Group on Rationales for the European Research Area and other foresight advisory boards.
As for his teaching, Rafael has been Co-Director of postgraduate courses on foresight at the University of Manchester and Co-Director of Executive Education courses for Foresight organisers, sponsors and practitioners. He has been guest lecturer in many European and Latin American countries and he has designed and delivered short courses and keynote speeches for a large variety of audiences in the public, private and academic sectors.
Finland• Security
• Space
• Socio-economic Sciences and the Humanities
• Transport (including aeronautics)
• Environment (including Climate Change)
• Energy
• Nanosciences, nanotechnologies, materials & new production technologies
• ICT - Information & communication technologies
• Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
• Health
• Cooperation
• Science and society
• Regions
• Infrastructures
• Security and freedom
• Solidarity and the responsible management of resources
• Prosperity in a knowledge intensive society
• Relevant for intergovernmental non-commercial external organisations (e.g. European Union, United Nations, OECD)
• Focused on a general area of commercial interest to business and/or industry
• Applied in a commercial context
ACTIVITIES AND AREAS OF INTEREST
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The main objectives of the ‘State-of-art of sustainable innovation’ work package (WP2) in the CASI project are (1) to position sustainable innovation (SI) within the framework of the... -
Sustainable innovation (SI) is a wide and multifaceted concept, the complex nature and definition of which is continuous and the subject of many questions and debates. This is probably the main ... -
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 inp... -
Discover Futures Diamond's Suite of Systems for Research and Innovation (R&I). Futures Diamond's R&I solutions are powered by Diamond Frame, a ... -
The purpose of our research is not to predict technological developments, but to identify possible areas of change, and to consider the implications for the workforce. The aim of this re... -
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According to Nature (2012), "the largest submerged caldera in the world, Santorini last erupted in 1950 and had been relatively quiet until early 2011, when small earthquakes started to rattle the islands. The region remained f...
Society manipulated with advances in interpretation of visua ...
Visual perception is proven to be different in males and females. This impacts on the design of future systems to facilitate medical decision-making, crime re-enactments and other scenarios as people react differently to visual...
Today 52% of global fishing stock is fully exploited, 28% is overexploited and 20% is moderately or lightly exploited. We are emptying the oceansof fish faster than most species can repopulate themselves. International waters a...
Artificial Humour (AH) War between China and USA
In October 2010, the Tianhe-1A system at China's National Supercomputer Center achieved a performance level of 2.57 petaflop/s (quadrillions of calculations per second). As a result, the Cray XT5 “Jaguar” system at the Oak ...
Katrina-like hurricane hits Europe
Growing frequency of unusual events have increased expert's concerns about the potential for a major storm that could affect many countries at once or in turn. We have had these recently – in 2000 and 2002 floods in several ...
Cyber Crusade: Massive e-sabotage by "hacktivists"
Growing social and economic pressures in Europe result in massive protests and e-sabotage by underemployed IT activists. A "Cyber Crusade" (or CyberJihad) emerges with the aim of reshaping major socio-economic policies, so as t...
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) "wikiforesight" overtakes religion
Personal futures planning toolkits with “success stories” (e.g. how-to guides and case studies from experts and celebrities) become widely available and used. Social movements emerge, with individuals and civil society gr...
Google Glass - a new type of wearable computer.
According to a 16 May 2013 review in The Telegraph, Google Glass is "the computer that has both excited and worried millions. Forget the next iPad or the Samsung Galaxy S5 - Google Glass is the hottest property in today’s ov...
Deadly food products hit Europe
Health officials say the virus, believed to have originated from organic cucumbers in Germany has killed 10 people and infected hundreds. The epicentre of the outbreak has been in the country's north with more than 300 people c...
Emergence of no-gender societies
A Toronto couple are defending their decision to keep their infant's sex a secret in order to allow the child to develop his or her own gender identity.
Breast milk ice cream goes on sale in Covent Garden
Mrs Hiley, 35, said if adults realised how tasty breast milk was more new mothers would be encouraged to breastfeed. Each serving of Baby Gaga at Icecreamists costs £14. Mrs Hiley's milk was expressed on site and pasteurised b...
Reduced Security Control to Push Innovation
In a keynote Google’s former CIO Douglas Merrill describes Google’s approach concerning internal innovation culture as offering employees as much freedom as possible in their working/innovation processes, e.g, by letting th...
Ideas In Action – High Transparency at Dell Idea Storm
The multinational technology corporation Dell is giving interested users the chance to post ideas on products, best practices and general topics. Other users can comment and further promote or demote them. In a specific section...
From Closed Innovation to Top-Secret Innovation?
n Summer 2009, an employee of one of Apple’s manufacturer committed suicide after loosing a prototype of a next generation iPhone, There are rumours that he was maltreated and his house was searched illegally. Apple, common...
- New Horizon Scanning Hub iPad App and Community launched!
By: Rafael Popper Posted on: 10/10/2013 Last update: 3986 days ago
At the 2013 CfWI’s Annual Conference, we have proudly announced the launch of the Horizon Scanning Hub iPad App and the Hub Community. This is the first (and so far only!) Horizon Scanning iPad App in the world. It gives ... full article - How to edit your iKnow profile?
By: Rafael Popper Posted on: 27/03/2012 Last update: 4547 days ago
This short presentation shows you how to update your iKnow profile. The following steps outline the process of the profile update: Step 1: Introduction 1. About me 2. Mini CV Step 2: Contact information 1. Email 2. Telephone 3. Mobile ... full article - iKnow Final Conference - Brussels, Belgium (27-28 October 2011)
By: Rafael Popper Posted on: 08/10/2011 Last update: 4651 days ago
Conference on Taming the Wild & Listening to the Weak: Towards a Strategic Issue Management System for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) The iKnow conference will present the new methods and tools developed by iKnow to supp... full article - About the iKnow Project
By: Rafael Popper Posted on: 10/12/2009 Last update: 4950 days ago
The aim of the iKnow project is to elucidate and examine events and developments potentially shaping or shaking the future of science, technology and innovation (STI) in the European Research Area (ERA) and the world. In so doing, the project pu... full article - Introduction to iKnow
By: Rafael Popper Posted on: 10/12/2009 Last update: 4950 days ago
iKNOW aims to advance knowledge and tools related to events and trends potentially shaping – and shaking - the future of science, technology and innovation (STI). The project is funded by the European Commission Directorate Ge... full article