Who We Are

Signtific is a collaborative project that brings together multiple non-profit research groups, scientific bodies, government agencies, and university research programs.

Signtific is developed and directed by the Institute for the Future, a non-profit futures-research group based in Palo Alto, California.

The NRC Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies has been briefed several times on this project.

Funding for this project is provided by the office of the Director of Defense Research & Engineering.

Workshop partners in this project have included:

Association of University Research Parks
BioBar Camp
Chemical Heritage Foundation (Philadelphia, PA)
Graphisoft (Budapest)
International Association of Science Parks
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenberg, Austria)
Perimeter Institute (Waterloo, Canada)
National University of Singapore
U.S. Office of Naval Research
Universiti Teknologi Mara (Shah Alam, Malaysia)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (Penang, Malaysia)
U.S. Frontiers of Engineering, National Academy of Engineering
Royal Society of London
Rockefeller Foundation