Publication year: 2010
Source: Futures, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 19 November 2010

T., Könnölä , F., Scapolo , P., Desruelle , R., Mu

Foresight activities are often conducted to anticipate major societal future challenges and provide support to current decision-making. Whereas the paper reports some findings on the future of challenges especially related to sustainability, 

 

security and information society, it mainly provides evidence on how foresight impacts on policy-making and societal developments. The paper elaborates a framework with key design dimensions related to foresight process and outcomes in order to characterise different kinds of foresight projects. The framework is applied for the empirically based ex-post analysis of selected foresight projects around the world in order to clarify i) different roles for foresight in...