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The Millennium Project - German Node
Activities Update 2006/2007
Cornelia Daheim
The Millennium Project
Planning Committee Meeting
Minneapolis, July 2007
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• About the German Node
• Activities 2006/2007
• Plans for the Next MP year
Issues
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• Working with / for MP since 2001• Z_punkt GmbH the Foresight Company founded the German Node in March 2003,
and has chaired it since. (core working Cornelia Daheim, Node Chair, and Dr. Gereon Uerz).
• A Planning Committee embraces main futures studies’ institutions in Germany: • Dr. Guenter Clar, Steinbeis Academy • Dr. Kerstin Cuhls, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research
ISI in Karlsruhe• Robert Gassner, Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment in
Berlin • Prof. Dr. Gerhard de Haan, Free University of Berlin (educational studies)• Prof. Dr. Peter H. Mettler, Professor for Societal Science and Sociology of
Planning and Technology • Dr. Axel Zweck, German Association of Engineers, Future Technologies
Division, Duesseldorf• One new member:
• Gaby Schuette, from the Secretariat for Futures Studies, an independent, interdisciplinary research institute (www.sfz.de), Gelsenkirchen
About the German Node
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• Corporate Foresight Think Tank• founded in 1997• located in Berlin, Essen and Karlsruhe• staff of about 20 employees
• Foresight-Services for Strategic Management and Innovation: From Trend Monitoring to Scenario Processes
• Content Provider for Strategic Future Knowledge: Context, Consumers, Sectors, Technologies
• External Think Tank for Challenging Creative Processes• Partner for Systematic Implementation of Corporate Foresight
in Entrepreneurial Practices
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Customers
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Z_punkt News
• Team Growth• Website Re-launch• Conference Cycle
“Re-Thinking Business” started, 1st Conference with Deutsche Bank
• New products and services, such as: Siemens Megatrend Report, Structured Workshop Offers, Future Fabrication Event, ....
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• General Node Work• Promotion of SOF / MP in general • Global Challenges Update• Distribution of and Contributions to Questionnaires
• Additional Activities• Survey on Impact of Future Technologies in Germany • Millennium Prize promotion• Website launch - German Node Website and Re-launch Z_punkt Website, with
updated info on MP
German Node - Activities 2006/2007
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• Survey conducted by the German Node (German only)• Motivation:
• Starting a common project• Demonstrating feasibility of generating relevant, valid results with a simple and
short questionnaire concept• Possibility of enlarging project to international level with MP as a whole• Main question: Which future technologies have the strongest impact on which
other sectors (expected results for example: Biotech is expected to have the strongest impact on society; media opinion leaders expect strong impacts from Nano on industry, while researchers do not)
• Status: • About 110 answers from
• Opinion leaders - Experts, scientists, private sector, NGOs• Analysis to be started• Results will be shared with MP PC• To be presented to public in form of articles by German Node
German Node - Activities 2006/2007Technology Survey
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German Node - Activities 2006/2007Node Website launch
• Online since autumn 2006, by now only German version (English version planned)
• www.stateofthefuture.de
• General info on MP, on the Node, on activities such as Millennium Prize, mailing list
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German Node - Activities 2006/2007Z_punkt Website Re-launch, MP Info
• Re-launch March 2007, by now only German version (English version in August)
• www.z-punkt.de
• Link to MP website and German Node website
• Regular info on MP in German and English newsletters (2000 and 1000 subscribers)
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• Deepening / refreshing co-operation with other Nodes
• English website for German Node• Regular Updates and Mailing List Infos to be sent
• Completing Technology Survey of German Node• Analysis• Sharing Results with MP PC• Discussing feasibility of transferring approach to MP as a whole
• Stronger and more professional PR for SOF and MP• Press release for SOF 2007 • Trying to have individual reviews of SOF placed
German Node - Plans for 2007/2008
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Thanks for your attention!
More information: http://www.z-punkt.de
http://www.stateofthefuture.de