Yoel Raban

Tel Aviv University | TAU · Technology and Society Foresight - TSF

Purpose: The cyber security industry emerged rapidly in recent years due to mounting cyber threats and increasing cyber hacking activities. Research on emerging technologies emphasizes the risks and sometimes neglects to address the potential positive contribution to cyber security. The purpose of this study is to conduct a relatively balanced long...

The first WYRED Delphi study was carried out during May-June 2017, and the results were presented in a report published in September 2017.This report presents the results of the second Delphi survey among young people (Delphi 2), carried out during January - March 2018. The main objectives of the second study were (1) to re-examine the prioritizati...

The analysis of Wild Cards, potential low-likelihood but high-impact events, in foresight studies is important in order to counter the tendency of decision makers to deny major surprises. This paper presents the results of an empirical analysis of 14 technological, geopolitical and societal Wild Cards in the transport field, carried out within the...

This document builds on current and prospective information on people and freight mobility patterns, Economic, Demographic, Energy, Environmental and Geopolitical issues to frame the “Driving Forces” that will shape the future development of demand for transportation and the “Demand Challenges” those changes will impose on transportation systems in...

This paper describes a new model of privacy accountability and associates its dimensions with elements of the proposed European Commission regulation on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing and free movement of personal data. The model is applied to the security industry with special emphasis on the video surveillance and bio...

The overall goal of the ELOST project was to develop policy recommendations for increasing awareness and usage of e-Government services among low socioeconomic status groups (LSGs). The project included a comparative cross cultural study of barriers on e-Government use by LSGs in six countries. The recommendations address the main barriers that pre...

This study investigates linkages of new Israeli high-tech companies to the military and defense system. We examine the impact of social capital, signaling, and learning spillovers on resource acquisition in terms of investments and the financial performance of companies with and without linkages. Social capital, signaling, and learning spillovers a...

Quite counterproductively, the absence of unified framework and common language among those who deal with knowledge management (KM) harms the ability to find, share or transfer KM practices. Further, even just diagnosing the KM needs in an organization is obstructed by insufficient measures to underpin a consistent analysis. The Watermill model, pr...

SMEs are widely recognized as an important source of GNP growth in many countries. Yet, SMEs are largely dependent on external competencies in order to successfully carry out innovation processes. In a recent OECD report [14], networking and clusters were described to be a key enabler for the success of SMEs. The report calls for increasing the par...

This is a true story about a fashion company; let us call it simply Fashion Inc. Among other events, Fashion Inc. faced a remarkable decrease in revenues which, in retrospect, was attributed to a tremendous shift in customers' tastes, that the company hadn't noticed. Undoubtedly, concluded the management, we have messed up with knowledge processing...

Objectives of this report The objective of the work package to which this report contributes is to describe, explain and model the changing patterns of uptake and usage of ICT products and services across Europe. This objective relates to both wave I and wave II of the e-Living survey, which will together constitute a panel study. The objective of...