technology foresight is a methodology for making the complexity and advanced nature of new technologies of future more comprehensible and transparent. the objective of this survey is to analyze and interpret weakness and strength of the current situation of iran organizations regarding utilization of foresight activities of developing new technologies and its influence over the country by usin...

Ever-increasing development of information technology has affected many aspects of the individual, social and organizational life. This enforces many countries to develop and adapt comprehensive plans to manage this relatively new phenomenon. Highly adoptable e-government policies and protocols are required nationally, where traditional e-government plans are failed to address the citizens' req...

This guest editorial article introduces contextual and theoretical frameworks of foresight futures studies’ methodology. Outstanding questions relating to methodological development are then addressed. is followed by an introduction five papers that make important contributions. The ends a call for further research on the have been identified, but remain unanswered.

We explore what implications the geographical dispersion of foresight participants and their regional idiosyncrasies have for the management of foresight processes. Specifically, we argue that these kinds of multi-stakeholder processes place demands such as scalability, modularity and dependability on the design and deployment of foresight methodologies. We also report a Finnish foresight proce...

Technology foresight has attracted increasingly more attention from the government and academia as well as industries since 1990s. However, the impact of technology foresight on national strategic decision-making varies from countries to countries. This paper tries to introduce the technology foresight towards 2020 in China which conducted by the research group in the Chinese Academy of Science...

In innovation networks, participatory foresight activities can typically have several functions. They can be seen as a tool for supporting decisionmaking on Science and Technology (S&T) priorities, but they can also be expected to contribute to the structures of a network beyond the scope of decision making. Foresight activities are often limited by tight timeframes, budgets and they need to be...

In innovation networks, participatory foresight activities can typically have several functions. They can be seen as a tool for supporting decision-making on science and technology (S&T) priorities, but they can also be expected to contribute to the structures of a network beyond the scope of decision making. Foresight activities are often limited by tight timeframes, budgets and they need to b...

Article 3 This is the third in a series of four articles providing an introduction to the practice of strategic foresight. This article delves a little deeper into the details of foresight methodology and process design, with the aim of providing the reader with a greater appreciation for how organisational benefits of the nature that I discuss in the first and second articles can be practicall...