Designing A Policy Laboratory Process with A Strategic Foresight Approach

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1 Ph.D. student in Futures Studies, Ivanki University, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD Student in Futures Studies, Supreme National Defense University and Strategic Research, Tehran, Iran

10.22034/jstp.2024.11590.1748

Abstract

Today, due to the increasing speed and intensity of environmental changes, policy-making processes have undergone extensive changes compared to the past, so governments need innovative mechanisms and transition from traditional governance methods to modern governance in order to prevent policy failures, improve and increase the effectiveness of their adopted policies. In response to these changes, policy laboratories formulate public policies in an innovative way with the participation of citizens and government institutions. On the other hand, strategic foresight has the capacity to, in practical terms, while examining the formulated policies and strategies, draw the believable atmosphere of the future of these policies and strategies and facilitate the possibility of reaching the intended goals in the future. By using the possibilities of foresight in the policy making processes of a laboratory, it is possible to present more favorable policy ideas that respond to the changes and turbulences of the policy environment and the future of a policy. Therefore, in the current research, an effort was made to present a proposed process for a policy laboratory with a strategic foresight approach, and the design path of this process based on the selection of practical and effective models in policy making and foresight should be considered together.

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