Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIResearcher
Max Priebe is a researcher and project coordinator at the Berlin Office of Fraunhofer ISI. At the Foresight Department, he focuses on strategic foresight for society, policy and public administration. Since 2021, he has been researching the institutionalization of strategic foresight in government, advising the German Chancellery, among others. Additionally, he has been researching mission-oriented policy approaches as well as participation for policy learning and advised, among others, the BMBF in the conception and implementation of the participation process of the High-Tech Strategy. For his dissertation at the Institute for Science in Society, he scrutinised foresight practices in the context of innovation policy. The thesis pursues the question of what it takes to establish future directions in pluralistic, spatially diverse, and contested contexts. Previously, he studied regional science and sociology at HU Berlin and UC Berkeley. He graduated from the Master's program in Futures Studies in 2017 with a discourse-analytic study of Berlin's Smart City Vision, where he has been teaching critical futures studies, vision assessment and science and technology studies ever since.
