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NESTA: the influence of science fiction on innovation and technological development

The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts invites applications to tender for a research report on the influence of science fiction on innovation and technological development.

It is anticipated that the work should cover areas such as: the direct impact of science fiction on those undertaking technological development and the extent to which it has influenced research, product design, or the ambition and direction of innovation; the influence of science fiction on the demand for innovation; the influence of science fiction on the social status of innovation; the creative processes and techniques that science fiction writers use to imagine and flesh out possible futures.

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