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Dr. Ozcan Saritas
Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR), Manchester Business School (MBS)

Ozcan Saritas is based at the University of Manchester where he is a Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, formerly PREST). In MIoIR he is engaged in various research and teaching activities. Ozcan's research activity has been focused mostly upon long-term policy and strategy making with particular emphasis upon Foresight methodologies and their implementation in socio-economic and technological fields at the supra-national, national, regional and sectoral levels. During his doctoral research he developed unique Foresight approaches based on systems thinking. Since 2000, he has been working in a number of research projects including SESTI (Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues), SANDERA (The future impact of security and defence policies on European Research Area), the European Monitoring Centre of Change Sector Futures project, BEFORE (sectoral foresight in five EU regions), and the ForLearn Online Foresight Guide. In 2004 and 2006 he had short term research contracts with United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). In UNIDO he worked for the Industry Promotion and Technology Department to implement the UNIDO Technology Foresight Programme for Central and Eastern European Countries and Newly Independent States. On the teaching side, he delivers courses including “Sustainable Technology Management” and “Foresight Concepts and Methods” in the Management of Science, Technology and Innovation MSc Programme, “Strategic Foresight for Organisations” in the MBS-MBA Programme, and “Scenario Methods in Research” in the MBS-PhD Programme. He also supervises PhD and MSc students. On the executive education side, he acts as the co-director of the PREST Annual Foresight course. He has given lectures in the UNIDO Technology Foresight training courses and other Foresight courses organised by European Commission and European Science Foundation. Ozcan has recently been appointed as the new editor of the Foresight journal.