Specific strategies for achieving the goals will be based on the tactical activities that are listed below:
Center will have affiliate faculty from among the faculty of the institute. They will have secondary affiliation with the centre.
Centre will have provision for regular or Adjunct Professor of Practice, Visiting Professor and Adjunct Professor to take its agenda forward.
Centre will appoint Post-Docs with will-defined research agenda aligned to its goals, based upon requirements.
An online Certification/Diploma/Degree on Strategic Foresight- Principles and Practice -in line with the institute commitment to NEP-2020.
Constantly update the website.
A DST conference – reactivate and conduct .
Monthly expert talk.
An International conference on Technology and Foresight – An ode to the Future.
Creating a Board of Advisor and Expert associated the center.
To work on embedding foresight in thee academic and research plan of departments/schools/IDRPs and/or Launching new IDPRs/schools/departments based upon Technology Foresight
Train Policymakers, government officials, executives, managers and other professionals on Technology Foresight techniques.
Produce Technology Foresight reports and presentations for private-sector and public-sector policymakers.
Focus on target industries such as agriculture, healthcare , finance & insurance, transportation, supply chain, pharmaceutical & chemical, utilities & energy, education, IT infrastructure, telecommunications, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, etc.
Identify evolving and futuristic technologies and nurturing them initially.
Use methodologies such as: Scenario planning, Backcasting, Forecasting, Decision-Trees, Techcasting.
Using partners for collaboration on foresight-based activities. for eg. Muliverz as an industrial partner can be looked at for: Techcasting: Multiverz is developing a platform for technology forecasting. IITJ could use and provide feedback on its functionality, Collective Intelligence: Multivers could establish a ‘prediction market’ for technology. IITJ could support its development, and evangelize student participation, Grand challenges: Multiverz could help identify and jointly pitch for such projects., Industry: Multiverz could work with IITJ on its SME transformation project and its subsequent scale up., Goverment: Multiverz could help design a program on anticipatory regulation, and R&D forecasting.