The topical collection on quality criteria for futures research: a short introduction

摘要

During recent years, questions of quality and good practice gained more traction in the European futures studies community. For this reason, the organizers of the international conference BFutures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems^, held in Turku, Finland, in June 2015, decided to devote one of the fifteen thematic sessions to methodological issues with a special focus on quality. This session was jointly organized and chaired by the authors of this introduction. It comprised six sub sessions with a total of twenty papers presented: introduction, critical assessments of futures research methodology, methodological challenges of participatory futures research, methods for security focused futures research, methodological challenges in business foresight and methodological challenges of regional differences.