Green technology foresight of products and materials - some reflections and results from an ongoing Danish project

This article presents some methodological and theoretical reflections and some preliminary results from an ongoing Danish “Green Technology Foresight” project about environmentally friendly products and materials, where the environmental potentials and risks from three technological areas – nanotechnology, biotechnology and ICT (information and communication technology) – are analysed. The preliminary results presented here focus mostly on ICT.