Scenarios to explore the futures of the emerging technology of organic and large area electronics

Alireza Parandian, Arie Rip

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Abstract

Emerging technologies pose challenges for futures research because of their uncertainties combined with promises. Actors are anticipating and acting strategically. Sociotechnical scenarios building on endogenous futures support and enlighten actors. Such scenarios contribute to “strategic intelligence” about the technologies and their embedding in society. Organic and large area electronics promise to substitute silicon-based technologies, but firms and potential users are reluctant to invest. Ways to break through this “waiting game” are the starting point for scenarios that were developed as in an input in strategy articulation workshops with different stakeholders and third parties. The scenarios are offered as they were an input in the workshops and are annotated to show the robustness of their construction. Recent developments confirm the diagnosis of the dynamics of the domain
Original languageEnglish
Article number9
Pages (from-to)-
JournalEuropean journal of futures research
Volume1
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Keywords

  • IR-90248
  • METIS-303140

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