“My work in the
UPGRADE-Group was for us the basis for our “real”, structured
foresight-process. Though we made some attempts before, our new approach, making the
twenty steps of the blueprint, gives us the chance, to improve the
competitiveness of our region by bundling our resources to a critical mass.Then we have a much
better chance to fight unemployment and migration.The
discussion in the
group
made it possible for me, to find out my own
standpoint and develop my own idea of the right, suitable foresight
approach, to solve our specific regional problems. Because we learned a lot
from best
practice
examples of regional foresight, we are now able to make the next,
right steps and to save a lot of time and money.The experience of
seeing a working programme in NE-England encouraged us, to start a region-wide
foresight-process for the whole land of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”.
Thilo Streit
Forschungs- und
Technologietransfer
Kultusministerium
Zeppelinstr., 19055
Schwerin, Germany