ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society

School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS)  

At SFIS we make the future – or, rather, the set of plausible futures that humanity has – a focus of our activities. We are planning now for the kinds of futures that we will want to inhabit.

 Universities are at the forefront of innovation, generating and applying knowledge to improve our lives. At SFIS we’re going to make innovation the object of systematic study and informed critique, so that we might get what we truly want and need out of our scientific and technological endeavors.

 Universities serve society by producing knowledge and facilitating opportunity. They educate new generations of informed citizens and skilled, productive workers. At SFIS we see our efforts as part of a larger social fabric – local, regional, national, global – that informs our wants and needs about the futures we will want to inhabit.