Driving forces
Origin: Lat. cambium motoris, impulsoris fortia
Factors causing change, affecting or shaping the future. Drivers of change are those factors, forces or events [...] which may be amenable to changes according to one’s strategic choices, investments, R&D activities or foresight knowledge and strategies. They are both presently accessible and future relevant. A cluster of individual trends on the same general subject, moving events in certain directions, broad in scope and long term in nature (for example, globalization). There are many trends or events that shape the future, but some are more important and evident than others. Driving forces are these major future shapers. Examples might be the essence of demographic changes or technological innovations.
Spanish: Fuerzas impulsoras, motores de cambio
Sources and references
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- Global Foresight Glossary and Drivers of Change in Ecosystems and Their Servicesview
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- Arizona education futures.- Glossary definitions of selected futures termscited 14 times
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