Dr Rafael Popper
Principal Scientist (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd)
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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.
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• 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
Grand Challenges
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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 ... -
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A highly infectious and lethal virus appears and spreads out around the world fast due to the high mobility of the world population. The number of casualties is high and rises constantly, leading to massive social problems. The...
Radical change in the organisation of pan-European research
Pan-European research efforts to tackle grand challenges (e.g. energy vulnerability) are suddenly centralised into specialised European agencies
As a result of continuous global warming, the UK becomes one of the preferred tourist destinations as water temperatures raise to 25 degrees and the climate becomes as warm as in the Caribbean.
Memory enhancing drugs allow massive absorption of informati ...
E.g. the vocabulary of a language
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Breakthrough in clean technologies
Breakthrough in clean technologies
Conventional market systems based on price and demand, are suddenly giving way to online networks for supply, demand and the all-important ‘choice editing’. Half the FTSE firms lose half their value and are bought by new We...
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...
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...
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Several Arab leaders urged attack on Iran over nuclear issue
As reported by BBC, Several Arab leaders and their representatives are quoted as urging the US to carry out an attack on Iran to bring an end to its suspected nuclear weapons programme. In a cable from April 2008, the Saudi ...
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Fears that terrorists may acquire Pakistani nuclear material
US and UK diplomats feared Pakistan's nuclear material could fall into the hands of terrorists, the Guardian reports some of the leaked cables as revealing. Cables reported in the New York Times reveal the US has been attemp...
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Growing interest in role of media in public attitudes to EU ...
Growing interest in role of media in public attitudes to EU politics
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