Thus, objectivity can serve as a necessary but not sufficient issue for asserting the relevance of special issues in the different steps of a foresight process or when validating Futures Maps.
The analysis and reporting can be applied to a foresight process only with restrictions as results produced in foresight, e.g., future scenarios, can hardly be repeated – and are not even intended to be.
From the outside, a Foresight process is often misunderstood as a "look into the future".
They are present in any Foresight process that attempts to challenges arising from social, technological, ecological, economical or political factors and variable that are subject to ever increasing uncertainty due to increasing complexities and contingencies.
The applied method is reflexive and multi-modular, combining several inter- and transdisciplinary workshops and knowledge management phases in a co-creative Foresight process.
However, although the anthology acknowledges the stakeholder definition in policy-relevant research extending beyond the business organisational definition, and also the beneficial effect of including the non-scientific societal discourse in the foresight process, the true role of a wider audience seems to be limited to the framing or content building of the foresight exercise.
Actors in academic research, education, decision makers in the government, politicians and independent experts must participate in the integrated foresight process to perform a participatory foresight process.
Another finding involved the role of management in the foresight process.
The participative contribution of decision making is acknowledged in engaging the decision-makers in the foresight process.
For that, it is important to link the core phases in the foresight process and combine methods to innovate analyses (Popper [1]).
