For this purpose, it is crucial to define the aim of foresight and the way it is pursued ("What is scientific practice?"section).
We used the first interview question to elicit the practitioners' knowledge about the strategic and/or tactical purpose(s) underlying their corporation's adoption or use of foresight.
The purpose of this paper is to illustrate, trough the recent experience of the regional government of Lombardy, the role of foresight for enhancing public procurement and innovation policy at the regional level.
However, for the purposes of recklessness, foresight of even minor harm is sufficient – it does not require foresight of serious harm.
Participants acknowledged the importance of innovation as a division/department's tactical purpose for foresight, availing the potential for research and development (R&D) projects.
While the analysis demands good preparation to meet the purpose of each specific Foresight (e.g. adjust the focus of the data analysis, defining the appropriate hashtags etc)., the analysis itself can be done within a couple of days, or, depending on the goals of the analysis, even hours, due to its semi-automated nature.
They could not have arisen out of the blue for the purpose of polypeptide synthesis (foresight, see above).
Thus, we expect the concept of multi-layered foresight to support the design, management and evaluation of foresight.
In September 2004, leaders at the European Commission (EC) created an international consortium of foresight organizations for the purpose of monitoring and disseminating information about foresight activities to a network of practitioners, researchers, and policymakers [30].
The main findings here indicated that the purpose determine the foresight method to use, foresight methods influence the outcomes of foresight, foresight outcomes become the bases for outputs, and outputs (larger activities and managerial actions) determine the benefits received by the corporation.
