Slide 18 Final Remarks Looking at the classification of FTA methods, one can see: Brazil has experienced a strong growth in these activities in the last few years; It is possible to say that the prospective studies are expanding in Brazil; There is a clear evidence of the wide use of qualitative and soft methods, mainly from the Expert Opinion family; The use of methods from Bibliometrics and Monitoring families are also growing recently; There is a need to increase the use of methods from the Scenarios, Trend Analysis, Descriptive, Statistical, Modeling & Simulation and Valuing/Decision/Economic families; There is no evidence of the use of methods from the Creativity family;
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