On the other hand, it is questionable to what extent the strategy-level alone can grasp societal impacts of innovations as future-oriented activity bound with uncertainties.
The Greek Foresight exercise (in short hereafter, Greece-2021) was a major future-oriented activity supported by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology GSRTT) and the European Commission.
City planning is a future-oriented activity that shapes land use and the built environment by means of designs, regulations, and persuasion.
have not been produced as an end in itself but as a means to stimulate and strategically align future-oriented RTDI activities and longer-term investments from multiple actors in multiple sectors and across multiple levels.
On the other hand, we also observed more future-oriented, pro-active attitudes among forest managers.
Thus, sustainable economic success strongly relies on effectively gathering strategic intelligence (SI) as well as on strategic decision-making on and alignment of future-oriented RTDI investments and activities at multiple levels, from business to networks to political governance level [30].
We see this more as an ongoing activity and future-oriented organisational philosophy rather than a strict scientific exercise [25].
The executive functions can be seen as the "higher" cognitive functions such as complex cognitive activities, purposeful, self-regulatory, and future-oriented behaviour (e.g., planning, initiating, and problem solving), involved in the regulation and control of "lower" cognitive functions [ 7].
By future-oriented product design I mean the current, deliberate, activity of the company to build the future of its products and its market.
