| 1. | Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies | | | One of the oldest US futures research centers, affiliated with a graduate futures program: research activities, papers, course descriptions, alumni lists and links, and the Manoa Journal of Fried and Half Fried Ideas (about the Future) [12 volumes]. www.futures.hawaii.edu |
| 2. | Finland Futures Research Centre | | | Based at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration; studies emerging issues of change, scenarios, and long-range strategies for local, national, regional and global organizations; offers on-line futures research training; stresses sustainable development. www.tukkk.fi |
| 3. | Institute for Futures Research (University of Stellenbosch) | | | Academic research center specializing in business and technology foresight, demographic, economic, and energy forecasting, and long-term systems-science-based studies of sociopolitical structures; publication list and newsletter synopses. www.ifr.sun.ac.za |
| 4. | Institute for the Future | | | Based in Menlo Park, this non-profit research center specializes in long-term forecasting, and quantitative futures research methods. www.iftf.org |
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