To help overcome these challenges we look at the contributions of foresight from multiple perspectives in a systemic way and propose the concept of multi-layered foresight, which analyses the contributions of foresight to knowledge, relations and capabilities on four layers: landscape, system, organisation and individual.
We asked practitioners to discuss both the benefits and deficiencies of foresight practice from their perspective.
This perspective at Foresight 2.0 as a combination of knowledge transfer and horizon scanning is already a useful start to understand the qualitative difference to traditional Foresight methods, but it does not explain in detail how specific digital participation and collaboration mechanisms can help to improve Foresight.
To enrich the foresight process with the perspective of the non-specialist or the stakeholder is therefore perceived to be a necessary step towards rationalization of the deep social and cultural consequences of what Peter Druckur calls 'organizing innovation as a systemic process' [9].
Our analysis allows an overview of current technical and methodical developments in this field and foresight of future research perspectives.
This paper analyzes and discusses the Vision 2023 Technology Foresight Program from a contextualist perspective.
In order to examine a technology or a product, particularly in the perspective of Technology Foresight, it is important to specify which perspective is adopted.
With perspective and strategic foresight, companies tend to become first movers and achieve advantageous market positions such as brand popularity, distribution channels and high profits (Hunt and Arnett 2006; Lee et al. 2001; Wiklund and Shepherd 2005).
The paper aims to advance Futures Research by outlining the context and development perspectives of business Foresight in Visegrad region (that is in: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary).
Nevertheless, one of the main goals of any strategic Foresight is to broaden the perspectives on possible future developments by implementing different views, opinions and information sources into different phases of a Foresight exercise.
