Research Centers

1. The Institute for Futures Research (Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake)  (site info) Specializes in environmental scanning, scenario development, business foresight and strategic planning, futures mediation, and training. http://www.cl.uh.edu/futureweb/ifr.html 2. Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies  (site info) 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]. http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/ 3. Institute for Futures Research (University of Stellenbosch)  (site info) 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. http://www.ifr.sun.ac.za/ 4. Institute for the Future  (site info) Based in Menlo Park, this non-profit research center specializes in long-term forecasting, and quantitative futures research methods. http://www.iftf.org 5. Finland Futures Research Centre  (site info) 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. http://www.tukkk.fi/tutu/ 1-5 of 5.