As the exercise was part of a broader foresight project, the findings are expected to also inform and feed further research and policy work about energy transformations.
Lessons for Foresight practitioners: Running high-creativity research and innovation activities within broader Foresight exercises could be beneficial in many ways, such as to improve the quality of findings of the Foresight process and their socio-economic acceptance by the stakeholders and the general public.
According to Pang [29], the web can be useful to professional forecasting (respectively Foresight) in three ways: (1) Social Scanning, a systematic approach to pattern recognition in freely accessible, openly available data that Futurists have listed on the web for a broader Foresight community to analyse and evaluate (see [34]).
Recognising the need for more comprehensive scenarios, this exercise was followed up by an extensive foresight study carried out by the JRC, involving a broad range of stakeholders.
In this sense, Technology Future Analysis encompasses the broad technology foresight and assessment studies of the public sector and the technology forecasting and intelligence studies in private industry".
Mr. Broad, with characteristic foresight and shrewdness, paid far less for his by serving as a financier for the fabrication of the prototype of the series.
The abovementioned developments outline the context in which ensuring a broader participation in foresight activities has been justified.
We merged different participant perspectives through international cooperation in order to have a broader view of foresight activities.
"As a leader, having foresight and staying broad-minded is critical.
The concept foresight has a similar broad content though foresight stresses more the pragmatic side of futures studies and is defined as a systematic debate about different futures see e.g., [7, 9] or [33].
Any foresight initiative must include broad and diverse perspectives from outside your company and industry.
