Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
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| Type | Non-profit |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquarters | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Key people | Thorkil Kristensen (Founder), Johan Peter Paludan (Director), Axel Olesen (Managing CEO) |
| Industry | Consulting |
| Products | Presentations, projects, courses, FO/futureorientation magazine, various publications, reports, theme meetings |
| Employees | 28 (2007) |
| Website | http://www.cifs.dk/ |
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Professor Thorkil Kristensen, former OECD Secretary-General and Danish Minister of Finance, founded the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (Instituttet for Fremtidsforskning) in 1970. It is Denmark's largest Futures Studies think tank. Its mission is to help individuals and organizations (public and private) understand and plan for the trends that are shaping their long-term future.[1]
The institute's research covers a wide variety of topics from identification and statistically based analysis of global trends to subjective and emotional responses to the future. The work of the Institute is interdisciplinary, and its staff covers a number of academic disciplines and professional backgrounds, including economics, political science, ethnography, psychology, engineering, public relations and sociology.[2]
The institute's products include seminars, analyses, reports, newsletters, books, and the magazine Futureorientation. Some of the institute's books include:
- Geuken, Thomas; Gitte Larsen (2007). All Dressed Up – but nowhere to go. Copenhagen, Denmark: Gyldendalske Boghandel.In Danish only.
- (2004) Creative Man: The Future Consumer, Employee, and Citizen. Copenhagen, Denmark: Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
- Jensen, Rolf (1999). The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination will Transform your Business. New York: McGraw Hill.
