5th International Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) - Engage today to shape tomorrow

The practice-oriented paper reflects on the results of a strategic technology roadmapping project realised in the Green Triangle region of South Australia. The project integrated different methods in order to provide policy recommendations for the renewal of the forest industry in the region. Firstly, the project created a multi-criteria assessment framework for the evaluation of the present state of local companies. Secondly, the project made three value chain depictions: one that described the present value chain based on physical, monetary and information flows, and two so-called ‘potential’ value chain descriptions. Thirdly, the projectformulated technology roadmaps and assessed the potential for forest industry renewal. Fourthly, the project provided detailed policy recommendations based on the findings in the project.The integrated methodological approach of the project provided a robust basis for construction of policy recommendations. The company assessment grouped the local companies in four categories for comparative assessment purposes: forest owners, harvesters and hauliers, sawmills, and specialised suppliers. For the roadmap construction, the main information categories were drivers, markets, regulation, customer needs, solutions, and enabling technologies, and the specific dynamics connected to all these categories. This information was structured into three temporal spans: present, short term (ca. 3-5 years)and long term (ca. 5-10 years).There are, at least, three novel aspects of the project. Firstly, the integration of multi-criteria evaluation, value chain analysis and roadmapping creates new opportunities, but also new challenges. Secondly, the future-oriented view of the Australian forest industry is a new aspect. Thirdly, the project also had a strong regional policy perspective, especially connected with the discussions on path dependency and path creation in the regional development context.The project had both practical and managerial implications. Firstly, the company assessment identified the domains where each individual firm had weaknesses as well as where the group as a whole lagged global best practice. Secondly, the value chain analysis showed strengths and weaknesses of the present structure, but also delineated the necessary components to be developed in order to move towards higher value added production. Thirdly, the roadmaps showed the frontiers of research and business in advanced cellulose fibre-based industries, and made possible the positioning of the Green Triangle region.The project had two wider implications for policy. Firstly, the integrated methodological approach of the foresight exercise enabled the production of detailed policy recommendations that were embedded in the local industrial context. Secondly, the project open a window of opportunity to consider so-called platform policies, that is, policies that aim to develop the fragmented regional structure of the Green Triangle’s forest industry towards an integrated cluster-based platform, which would enable the region to benefit from agglomeration economics through a collaborative strategy.</p

The effect of high pressure on substitution reactions and chemical equilibria

x, 167 leaves : ill. ; 26 cm.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, 197

Strategic roadmapping as a policy tool for meso-level industrial transformation::the case of cellulosic fibre value chain in the Green Triangle, South Australia

This chapter illustrates the use of strategic roadmapping as a policy tool for regions or industry sectors to formulate a strategy to renew and transform their industrial base when faced with structural decline, diminishing opportunities, and intensifying competitive pressures. This approach is illustrated by the case study of the forest and wood products industry in the Green Triangle region in the southeast of South Australia, both the road maps produced and the staged policy recommendations made for immediate, short, and long-term action. The chapter concludes by summarising the key arguments for the use of strategic roadmapping as policy tool for industrial transformation, and identifying some future avenues for strategic roadmapping in the forest and wood products industry and in manufacturing industry in general. </jats:p

Proceedings of the 6th ISPIM innovation symposium

Globalisation, rapid technological change, shifts in customer values and other developments create a need for the constant renewal of companies and industry sectors. However, current approaches applied in the study of industrial transformation and renewal do not usually grasp the interactions between the local industrial dynamics and emerging transitions with an adequate clarity or lack a strategic future-orientation. To overcome these challenges, we propose a systematic and integrated approach for creating transformation pathways for a local industry sector in need of renewal. Our approach combines multi-criteria assessment of companies, development of future value networks and strategic roadmapping in a comprehensive framework. Based on a case study we conclude that the approach helped to broaden the horizon and bridge local competences to global developments, but further research is needed in the better integration of the methods.</p