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The Future of Services
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Miles I.
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Publication based on the results of:
Biryukova O. V., Kupalov I., Zhang W., R-Economy 2026 Vol. 12 No. 1 P. 109–125
Relevance. Twenty-five years after China’s accession to the WTO, the multilat eral trading system faces unprecedented challenges, including institutional pa ralysis, geopolitical fragmentation, and rising protectionism. Against this back drop, China’s trajectory offers a critical case study of how a major non-Western economy can simultaneously integrate into, adapt to, and reshape global trade governance. Yet existing literature often ...
Added: April 6, 2026
Biryukova O. V., Жаронкина Д. В., Вопросы экономики 2026 № 3 С. 25–43
The article analyzes the state and dynamics of China’s service sector development as a key factor in enhancing the country’s international competitiveness. The study examines the parameters of China’s participation in international trade in services, which still lags significantly behind trade in goods. Nevertheless, the country places great emphasis on trade in services for a range of strategic, economic, and ...
Added: March 11, 2026
Anna Grebenyuk, Milshina Y., Sergey Shashnov et al., Foresight 2026 Vol. 28 No. 1 P. 45–65
Purpose
The article proposes an approach for assessing the impact of global trends on human capital and its components. This study aims to contribute to the development of new approaches for assessing the impact of a set of global trends on human capital and its individual components.
Design/methodology/approach
A special methodology was developed based on the use of ...
Added: January 29, 2026
Niyazov S., Maibakh O., Alexei Sukharev et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2026 Vol. 224 Article 124496
This research evaluates the accuracy of Delphi surveys in technology foresight with a focus on the transportation sector by determining the realization status of topics forecasted in the three Science and Technology Forecast Surveys administered by Japan's National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in 1992, 1997, and 2001. The analysis included 167 topics, ...
Added: January 16, 2026
Sinelnikova V., Журнал Суда по интеллектуальным правам 2025 № 3(49) С. 152–160
Based on the results of the study, the opinion is argued: in civil turnover, services are divided into four types, the first two are provided directly to a person: some affect the intellectual, including psychological or physiological, state of the customer or another participant in a legal relationship (a person), causing changes in his intangible ...
Added: November 9, 2025
Jonathan L. Calof, Futures 2025 Vol. 173 Article 103653
For several years, foresight and competitive intelligence (CI) professionals have worked together, learning from each other and adopting each other's approaches. For example, in 2024 an affiliation agreement was signed between a CI and a foresight association. This article examines this professional development and looks at the extent to which academia has done the same. ...
Added: July 18, 2025
Sokolov A., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 3 P. 17–34.
The chapter outlines the crucial role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in global economic and societal development, emphasising their contributions to creating industries, generating employment and addressing Grand Challenges. Foresight, defined as a systematic, participatory future-intelligence-gathering process, is presented as an essential tool for supporting policy-making, particularly in developing countries. The chapter explores the ...
Added: June 4, 2025
Saritas O., Kotsemir M., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. P. 115–208.
The South Africa 2030 Foresight study, utilizing big data analytics, aimed at advancing the national innovation system and enhancing knowledge generation capacity. This chapter presents outcomes from bibliometric and semantic analyses conducted by ISSEK HSE. Bibliometric analysis explored South Africa’s research competences, scientific capacity and global collaborators, revealing mature and emerging research areas. Semantic analysis ...
Added: February 14, 2025
Saritas O., Veselitskaya N., Sokolov A., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 4 P. 35–53.
This chapter provides an overview of the Foresight methods, which were used in the South African Foresight for STI (SAForSTI) process. The SAForSTI 2030 exercise brought together a variety of qualitative and quantitative Foresight methods with innovations in their use. Over years, Foresight has embraced a spectrum of quantitative and qualitative methods from various disciplines ...
Added: January 9, 2025
Cham: Springer, 2024.
Using a new methodology for foresight studies, this book presents new findings and policy recommendations to improve living conditions and make progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using the case of South Africa, the respective chapters show how social and economic challenges can be addressed in an inclusive and sustainable way. The book ...
Added: January 9, 2025
Институт Африки РАН, 2023.
This volume contains a series of reports presented at the scientific conference. The papers are devoted to the issues of understanding the contemporarely nature of services sectors, including traditional and modern services, and its growing role in the economic development for African countries. Special attention is paid to the issues related to the contribution of the services sector to ...
Added: April 25, 2024
Chulok A., Kotsemir M. N., Radomirova Y. Y. et al., Foresight 2024 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 365–391
Purpose. The purpose of this study is to create a methodological approach for identifying priority areas for science and technology (S&T) development and its empirical application within the city of Moscow. This research uncovers a wide range of multicultural and multidisciplinary global trends that will affect the development of major cities in an era of ...
Added: February 29, 2024
Marina Boykova, Knyazeva H., Salazkin M., Foresight and STI Governance 2023 Vol. 17 No. 4 P. 80–91
The challenges the futures studies face are particularly complex, interconnected, and contradictory, and cannot be resolved using linear approaches. Prognostic science needs tools matching the new contextual complexity, which would allow to capture a much wider range of driving forces, and their potential effects, in a non-linear perspective, to improve the accuracy of forecasts and ...
Added: January 25, 2024
Petrovskaya N., Международная торговля и торговая политика 2017 № 1(9) С. 25–35
The article examines the connections between exports and employment in US; the number of jobs supported by the export of goods and services. Goods exports supports nearly 60 percent of jobs, connected with exports, mainly in manufacturing. Among the manufactured products, exports of machinery products support the greatest number of jobs, followed by chemical products, ...
Added: September 29, 2022
Saritas O., Burmaoglu S., Ozdemir D., Futures 2022 Vol. 137 Article 102916
This study examines the recent evolution of Foresight as a well-recognized tool for long-term policy and strategy making and discusses the future directions the activity might take. The science mapping approach is used for the analysis. Drawing on big data, science mapping provides an evolutionary overview of scientific domains across time and helps to identify ...
Added: September 12, 2022
Георгиевский А. Б., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 8. Менеджмент 2021 Т. 20 № 2 С. 216–241
Accelerating digitalization of the economy and changing pandemic-driven consumer trends provide companies with opportunities for a complete customer satisfaction by using solutions. This work aims to consider the formation of a solution as the basis for the servitization of a company. The analysis of academic and consulting literature on solution and servitization concepts was used as a research ...
Added: June 10, 2022
Георгиевский А. Б., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 8. Менеджмент 2022 Т. 21 № 1 С. 74–104
The article defines the concept of “servitization”, identifies its features, and outlines the antecedents and consequences of servitization for the company. The analysis of academic literature on the concept of servitization was used as a research method. The author presents two approaches to the definition of the concept of “servitization”: the transformation process and the innovation of the ...
Added: June 7, 2022
Георгиевский А. Б., ЭКО 2022 Т. 52 № 4 С. 138–155
The paper identifies the indicators of ecosystem established by Russian retailers based on the implicit content analysis of business news publications, companies’ official websites and their annual reports. In total, the author identifies 10 indicators, six of which are universal for all retailers building ecosystems: availability of complementary services, creating partnerships with other companies, developing new formats, developing a unified ...
Added: June 7, 2022
Biryukova O. V., Global Policy 2022 Vol. 13 No. 4 P. 594–605
In the World Trade Organization (WTO), the co-sponsors of the Joint Initiative on Services Domestic Regulation signed the Declaration at the conclusion of the negotiations. Incorporating disciplines developed by a group of members into the WTO rulebook is fraught with certain difficulties because of the plurilateral nature of the outcome and possible resistance from non-participating ...
Added: June 5, 2022
Sokolova A., Futures 2022 Vol. 135 Article 102875
One of the central objectives in foresight development is increasing its effectiveness and impact upon decision-making. This paper is focused on improving the link between foresight and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy by overcoming the barriers that stand in the way at the very beginning of a foresight study. For this purpose, the key ...
Added: May 24, 2022
Proskuryakova L. N., Journal of Environmental Management 2022 Vol. 316 Article 115169
The article contributes to the research discussion around the human-natural and social-ecological systems by identification of a comprehensive list of global trends related to integrated interaction between environmental systems and human development, including climate change, pollution, new quality of economic growth, and challenges for education and healthcare. The foresight study behind it encompasses a combination ...
Added: May 13, 2022
Chulok A., Российский журнал менеджмента 2021 Т. 19 № 2 С. 151–176
This article presents the results of a comprehensive research of foreign and Russian studies in the field of corporate foresight, identifies their key research questions, conducts a structural analysis of cases, gives a classification and summarizes characteristics of domestic projects using foresight methods since the 90s of the past century. The search for an effective ...
Added: March 20, 2022
Miles I., Saritas O., Sokolov A., Rio de Janeiro: EDITORA FIOCRUZ, 2021.
This book sets out to draw out the key lessons from the experience of the last few decades. It will focus particularly on Foresight dealing with Science, Technology and Innovation (ForSTI—Foresight for STI). The meaning of these terms will need to be spelled out in more detail, but at this point we shall note that the STI field ...
Added: March 18, 2022