The Future is Made in China: An Analysis of Emerging Innovation Trends in China

The Future is Made in China: An Analysis of Emerging Innovation Trends in China

August 5, 2015

In December 2014, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China, using the services of Futurescaper, launched a public website survey to receive more information on innovations trends in China.

This foresight exercise was meant to examine the climate of Chinese innovation, as reported by Chinese citizens and other experts from the general public residing in China or abroad. The assumption was that although many people think that China is good in copying and adapting products, a great deal of innovation might be going on in China which the world is unaware of. This Futurescaper exercise aims to reveal that products are not only “made in China” but that at the same time are part of “the future is made in China”.

Futurescaper’s tools help organizations uncover and map out the drivers and dynamics that their stakeholders think are most important, understand why they think this is, and explore what their implications are for the future. By combining human insight with analytics together with a great visualization tool, they make this process faster and cheaper than traditional scenario workshops, more insightful and interactive than surveys, and more participatory and empowering than traditional expert analysis.

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