Purpose – This paper aims to depict foresight programmes as extended service encounters between foresight practitioners … explored. Design/methodology/approach – The range of activities comprising foresight is reviewed, along with the various … objectives that may underpin these activities. The more substantial foresight programmes are seen in terms of a series of steps …

Purpose – This paper aims to argue that innovation system foresight (ISF) can significantly contribute to the third … and foresight to explain how and why foresight contributes to the third mission. Findings – The authors propose that … foresight contributes to the third mission of universities, particularly to the research and development and innovation …

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how and why foresight may affect individual and organizational learning. Design …/methodology/approach This paper builds on prior research through a qualitative study with 13 foresight practitioners. Findings This paper … derives four broad foresight capabilities that are underpinned by a number of interdependent factors and relates those to the …

transform scenarios. The authors suggest supplementing strategic foresight in iterative processes to challenge the boundaries of …Purpose – This paper aims to introduce movements in scenario methodology, to design a moving strategic foresight … epistemological perspective to expand scenarios beyond the boundaries of end-states. To incorporate ongoing changes in scenario …

cases where the scenarios have effectively influenced corporate decision making, it was because the scenario team stayed … together to execute the foresights they reached in the scenario process.” Practical implications – Scenarios encourage …‐term. Originality/value – The paper concludes that scenarios, to be most effective, demand a rigor that consumes time and resources …

scenarios to discover and test possible opportunities and robust strategies. Originality/value The role of the corporate …