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Foresight Methodology and Commonly Used Methods in the New Generation Foresight
Ch. 4. P. 35–53.
This chapter provides an overview of the Foresight methods, which were used in the South African Foresight for STI (SAForSTI) process. The SAForSTI 2030 exercise brought together a variety of qualitative and quantitative Foresight methods with innovations in their use. Over years, Foresight has embraced a spectrum of quantitative and qualitative methods from various disciplines to establish consensus among key stakeholders, identify global challenges and opportunities, explore technologies and markets, and develop alternative scenarios, visions, priorities, policies, strategies, and action. The chapter delves into the 15 most commonly used methods in Foresight, exploring their advantages, limitations, and practical applications.
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Anna Grebenyuk, Milshina Y., Sergey Shashnov et al., Foresight 2026 Vol. 28 No. 1 P. 45–65
Purpose
The article proposes an approach for assessing the impact of global trends on human capital and its components. This study aims to contribute to the development of new approaches for assessing the impact of a set of global trends on human capital and its individual components.
Design/methodology/approach
A special methodology was developed based on the use of ...
Added: January 29, 2026
Niyazov S., Maibakh O., Alexei Sukharev et al., Technological Forecasting and Social Change 2026 Vol. 224 Article 124496
This research evaluates the accuracy of Delphi surveys in technology foresight with a focus on the transportation sector by determining the realization status of topics forecasted in the three Science and Technology Forecast Surveys administered by Japan's National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in 1992, 1997, and 2001. The analysis included 167 topics, ...
Added: January 16, 2026
Shalom V., Новая и новейшая история 2025 Т. 68 № 2 С. 159–173
Student-led protest movements swept South Africa in the mid-2010s. Nevertheless, echoes of these demands can still be heard today. The issue of transformation and “decolonization” of higher education is one of the most pressing issues for the young “born free” generation. It touched on the deep-seated problems of post-apartheid South Africa, such as racism, economic ...
Added: November 21, 2025
Jonathan L. Calof, Futures 2025 Vol. 173 Article 103653
For several years, foresight and competitive intelligence (CI) professionals have worked together, learning from each other and adopting each other's approaches. For example, in 2024 an affiliation agreement was signed between a CI and a foresight association. This article examines this professional development and looks at the extent to which academia has done the same. ...
Added: July 18, 2025
Saritas O., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 16 P. 373–388.
The water security domain in SAForSTI 2030 aims to address water wastage, pollution, and usage challenges, focusing on rural areas. Despite the importance of water recycling, the country lags, especially in tailoring technologies to its unique environment. Although efforts to deliver breakthrough technologies increases in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMMEs) in the water sector and ...
Added: June 4, 2025
Cele M., Saritas O., Sokolov A., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 5 P. 57–73.
This chapter provides a concise overview of the South Africa Foresight Exercise for Science, Technology, and Innovation (SAForSTI). The primary objective of this exercise was to explore the future landscape of science, technology, and innovation (STI), with a focus on leveraging STI to enhance the well-being of all South Africans by addressing socio-economic challenges inclusively ...
Added: June 4, 2025
Sokolov A., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 3 P. 17–34.
The chapter outlines the crucial role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in global economic and societal development, emphasising their contributions to creating industries, generating employment and addressing Grand Challenges. Foresight, defined as a systematic, participatory future-intelligence-gathering process, is presented as an essential tool for supporting policy-making, particularly in developing countries. The chapter explores the ...
Added: June 4, 2025
Zelenova D., Андреева Т. А., Гришенькин М. С. et al., Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право 2025 Т. 17 № 5 С. 103–122
The article is based on a study of the ‘thematic portfolios’ of five BRICS summit declarations from 2019 to 2023 – adopted in Brasília, Moscow, New Delhi, Beijing, and Johannesburg. A combination of quantitative and qualitative sentiment analysis enables the authors to identify common values that correspond to the so-called “BRICS spirit,” as well as ...
Added: April 29, 2025
Saritas O., Kotsemir M., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. P. 115–208.
The South Africa 2030 Foresight study, utilizing big data analytics, aimed at advancing the national innovation system and enhancing knowledge generation capacity. This chapter presents outcomes from bibliometric and semantic analyses conducted by ISSEK HSE. Bibliometric analysis explored South Africa’s research competences, scientific capacity and global collaborators, revealing mature and emerging research areas. Semantic analysis ...
Added: February 14, 2025
Saritas O., Kotsemir M., , in: 21st Century Foresight: Shaping the Future for Sustainable Social, Economic and Environmental Development in South Africa.: Cham: Springer, 2024. Ch. 6 P. 75–114.
This chapter conducts a comprehensive analysis of the research landscape in South Africa, focusing on various aspects such as the country’s publication activity, contribution to global knowledge generation, thematic structure of publications, scientific specializations, article quality measured by citation indicators and international research collaboration profiles. The analysis utilizes the Scopus database, employing a range of ...
Added: February 14, 2025
Cham: Springer, 2024.
Using a new methodology for foresight studies, this book presents new findings and policy recommendations to improve living conditions and make progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using the case of South Africa, the respective chapters show how social and economic challenges can be addressed in an inclusive and sustainable way. The book ...
Added: January 9, 2025
Stukal D., Политическая наука 2024 № 2 С. 37–54
Empirical research in Comparative Politics and International Relations is often built not only on statistical data, but also on expert evaluation data. However, the methods of data analysis employed in this case often fail to account for the differences between statistical and expert evaluation data, and disregard the extra uncertainty in the latter. This article ...
Added: June 28, 2024
Chulok A., Kotsemir M. N., Radomirova Y. Y. et al., Foresight 2024 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 365–391
Purpose. The purpose of this study is to create a methodological approach for identifying priority areas for science and technology (S&T) development and its empirical application within the city of Moscow. This research uncovers a wide range of multicultural and multidisciplinary global trends that will affect the development of major cities in an era of ...
Added: February 29, 2024
Marina Boykova, Knyazeva H., Salazkin M., Foresight and STI Governance 2023 Vol. 17 No. 4 P. 80–91
The challenges the futures studies face are particularly complex, interconnected, and contradictory, and cannot be resolved using linear approaches. Prognostic science needs tools matching the new contextual complexity, which would allow to capture a much wider range of driving forces, and their potential effects, in a non-linear perspective, to improve the accuracy of forecasts and ...
Added: January 25, 2024
Saritas O., Burmaoglu S., Ozdemir D., Futures 2022 Vol. 137 Article 102916
This study examines the recent evolution of Foresight as a well-recognized tool for long-term policy and strategy making and discusses the future directions the activity might take. The science mapping approach is used for the analysis. Drawing on big data, science mapping provides an evolutionary overview of scientific domains across time and helps to identify ...
Added: September 12, 2022
Sinelnikova V., Патенты и лицензии. Интеллектуальные права 2022 № 9 С. 7–21
In the article of V.N.Sinelnikova, Doctor of Law, Prof. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Prof. Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law (Moscow, valents1@mail.ru), the reasons for the appearance of a conflict of interests between a teacher and a student are formulated, the content of the terms «education», «implementation of educational activities», «provision ...
Added: September 11, 2022
Sokolova A., Futures 2022 Vol. 135 Article 102875
One of the central objectives in foresight development is increasing its effectiveness and impact upon decision-making. This paper is focused on improving the link between foresight and science, technology, and innovation (STI) policy by overcoming the barriers that stand in the way at the very beginning of a foresight study. For this purpose, the key ...
Added: May 24, 2022
Proskuryakova L. N., Journal of Environmental Management 2022 Vol. 316 Article 115169
The article contributes to the research discussion around the human-natural and social-ecological systems by identification of a comprehensive list of global trends related to integrated interaction between environmental systems and human development, including climate change, pollution, new quality of economic growth, and challenges for education and healthcare. The foresight study behind it encompasses a combination ...
Added: May 13, 2022
Chulok A., Российский журнал менеджмента 2021 Т. 19 № 2 С. 151–176
This article presents the results of a comprehensive research of foreign and Russian studies in the field of corporate foresight, identifies their key research questions, conducts a structural analysis of cases, gives a classification and summarizes characteristics of domestic projects using foresight methods since the 90s of the past century. The search for an effective ...
Added: March 20, 2022
Miles I., Saritas O., Sokolov A., Rio de Janeiro: EDITORA FIOCRUZ, 2021.
This book sets out to draw out the key lessons from the experience of the last few decades. It will focus particularly on Foresight dealing with Science, Technology and Innovation (ForSTI—Foresight for STI). The meaning of these terms will need to be spelled out in more detail, but at this point we shall note that the STI field ...
Added: March 18, 2022
Calof J. L., Foresight 2020 Vol. 20 No. 5/6 P. 563–577
Purpose
Given the importance of competitive intelligence (CI) to the economic performance of firms, understanding whether CI practice is impacted by firm size or by their awareness of CI maybe important when creating programs designed to improve firms’ CI performance. This paper aims to address this by examining the extent to which the CI practices of ...
Added: November 1, 2021
Aleksandr Chulok, , in: Bio#Futures. Foreseeing and Exploring the Bioeconomy.: Cham: Springer, 2021. Ch. 25 P. 563–580.
Blended Foresight approach for global bio trends ...
Added: June 22, 2021
Proskuryakova L. N., Kyzyngasheva E., Starodubtseva A., Smart Energy 2021 Vol. 3 Article 100025
The global electric power industry is under pressure due to economic downturn, decreasing demand, lowering energy prices, and growing non-payments. National electric power industries face similar challenges. These challenges pose threats to many other sectors of economy due to ongoing digital transformation. The paper focuses on the Russian electric power industry future development trajectories, as ...
Added: June 7, 2021