Addressing Europe's five most important partner regions (Russia/Ukraine, MENA, Turkey, USA, China), the Dahrendorf Foresight Process was initiated as a pilot project to improve the EU's foresight capabilities.
Overall, the results of our research may contribute to improve the effectiveness of strategic foresight and to increase its value added to the planning process of corporate firms, while providing helpful insight to public organizations that promote foresight exercises for enhancing the competitiveness of local firms.
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.
Rand Cooperation: Using foresight to improve the science-policy relationship, Luxembourg 2006.
Foresight might also improve the ability of organizational learning.
This paper makes proposals to improve the consideration of lifestyles in the quantitative foresight exercises.
Other technology foresight methods have developed visual illustrations of the outcome, which improve the comprehensibility of the results [10, 11].
What you can do to make this person's day a little easier and that will ultimately continue to improve the way we value older members of our community, will be a mark of your humanity and foresight.
The paper presents an approach at improving the impact of Foresight by systematically taking into account the characteristics of the targeted research and innovation (R&I) domains when designing a Foresight exercise.
As explained above, the study posed new research questions, which orientated the research towards two directions: (1) to propose and test ways to reach higher levels of foresight maturity in companies based in less developed regions willing to improve their foresight capabilities and (2) to enhance the Foresight Maturity Model itself.
