Post-evaluation of foresight studies: Turkish case
The main purpose of the national foresight works is to define a ‘continuous and progressive’ ‘national strategy’ by bringing the developments in the science and technology in an appropriate form to meet the social and economics needs of the country with cooperation among government, industry and society. This study evaluates the Vision 2023 Technology Foresight (TF) Project, the first national TF study in Turkey. The paper also analyses the strengths and the weaknesses to provide a guideline for future foresight projects.
This article is the second of two parts. The first one was published in the issue no 2 of this same journal. The preseni study uses the dependency index and the youth ratio to describe the aging process both at regional and municipal levels. Our data show a yet moderate aging process in (he region. with an uneven distribution throughout the different municipalities.