This category is for thinktanks and academic research centers in futures studies: research in the philosophy, methodology, forecasting, and analysis of alternative futures. Generally, these will be not-for-profit, as distinguished from consulting companies.
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- Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies Futures research center, affiliated with a graduate futures program: research activities, papers, course descriptions, publications.
- Institute for Futures Research (University of Stellenbosch) Academic research center specializing in business and technology foresight, demographic, economic, and energy forecasting, and long-term systems-science-based studies of sociopolitical structures; publication list and newsletter synopses.
- Institute for the Future Based in Palo Alto California, this non-profit research center specializes in long-term forecasting, and quantitative futures research methods.
- The Pelican Web Interdisciplinary resources for futures research on solidarity, sustainability, non-violence, human development, gender equality in secular and religious institutions, and the U.N. Millennium Development Goals. By Luis T. Gutierrez.