Sentence examples for undertaking foresight from inspiring English sources

60 % of the businesses had never heard of a possibility of undertaking foresight research.

With regard to the impact of Foresight on innovation policies, undertaking studies of the connections between Foresight and innovation catalysing practices on national, European or beyond EU dimensions would certainly be worthwhile.

The evaluation of activities within the UNESCO Anticipation and Foresight programme undertaken over the period 1999 2005 was part of the Evaluation Plan and was aimed at the assessment of the results and impact of UNESCO's activities in this area [40].

Observations and assessments of design, input, processes and output have been made in a series of E-lab foresight workshops undertaken by domain experts6 over a ten year period (2003 2013) in such diverse fields as hydrogen technology, national research policy recommendations, drugs policy, lifestyles and addiction, and university governance.

Some attempts to evaluate foresight projects have been undertaken, and selected examples concerning the evaluation of foresight projects at a national and transnational levels are presented in this article.

The first attempts to evaluate foresight projects were undertaken in the late 1990s [16].

Many foresight exercises have been undertaken with the aim of improving the performance of innovation ecosystems.

More recently, participatory Technology Foresight exercises have been undertaken in a variety of countries.

Despite the importance of the evaluation of foresight project results and activities that have been undertaken in this area, the development of a coherent and agreed framework for foresight impact evaluation has progressed very slowly.

The Foresight Impact Schema is quite general, it focuses on activities mainly undertaken within existing organisations and structures and can be applied for different types of foresight projects, on the condition that the design of a detailed impact assessment protocol is based on precise details that take into account the objectives and characteristics of a particular project.

The phases of interest and of activities undertaken by the European Commission can thus be described as a rise and fall and a rise again of Commission owned foresight.