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This category is for thinktanks and academic research centers in futures studies: research in the philosophy, methodology, forecasting, and analysis of alternative futures. Generally, these will be not-for-profit, as distinguished from consulting companies.
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Finland Futures Research Centre
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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.
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Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies
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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].
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Institute for Futures Research (University of Stellenbosch)
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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.
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Institute for the Future
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Based in Menlo Park, this non-profit research center specializes in long-term forecasting, and quantitative futures research methods.
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