Israel has a long history of producing amazing tech companies, in part due to the foresight of the government in nurturing the local VC scene.
My own university is a cutting-edge institution in the Middle East thanks to the foresight of the government.
The advancement of communication technologies and the deep expansion of Internet, provide opportunities to include more and more individuals in the foresight process, irrespectively of their current geographical location.
The unexpectedly heavy economic turbulence, which began in the third quarter of last year, can be traced to the mix of financial globalisation and misplaced confidence in the foresight (and technical sophistication) of large financial investors.
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.
Another finding involved the role of management in the foresight process.
Respondents described this credibility gap as a lack of confidence in the foresight team held by the departmental decision-maker.
Jogee appealed partially on the basis that, in these circumstances, foresight of a mere possibility that Hirsi would use the knife with the intention of causing at least serious bodily harm to Fyfe was not enough to prove a conviction of murder as against him.
They had had the foresight "in the face of the arrival of a pervasive consumer society to make a hugely romantic gesture of defiance in defence of the individual".
For example in the special issues of Foresight or Technological Forecasting and Social Change on Strategic Foresight [1, 2], in the European Planning Studies journal or in books, such as What Works: Case Studies in the Practice of Foresight [3], Adaptive Governance for a Changing World [4] or The Evolution of Strategic Foresight: Navigating Public Policy Making [5]; to name just a few.
