Foresight: This stage was based on two steps: 1. Expert's consultation and 2. Structural analysis.
Pre-Foresight: This stage was a benchmarking process where the following factors were compared: Financial dependence and governance; Connected Institutions; Some services provided by several NRENs.
A study by Battistella and Nonino (2012) argue that as the phase moves from foresight to design stage, the more extrinsic motivation is used whereas intrinsic motivation alone is rarely used.
The value of foresight beyond the stage at which the student must submit their project report was also recognized through the recommendations that supervisors should clarify rights of ownership of data and anticipated roles in preparing work for publication.
Hoping to detect such foresight at an early stage, a few technology companies and laboratories, including the Interval Research Corporation and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, have recently financed artists in residence, gambling on the unfettered powers of aesthetic imagination.
In the third stage, the foresight maturity model FMM [34] is presented.
For each level of evaluation and each stage of foresight project execution, sets of the "pre-activity" evaluation questions are proposed.
Thus, while recognising the indispensable nature of such a review, it is important to bear in mind the risk involved, in order not to curtail possible visions during this initial stage of foresight analysis.
The described Foresight process had three stages: pre-foresight, Foresight and post-foresight.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 The three work stages of Foresight Cycle II.
