whether the foresight community itself was locked-in in methodological terms given the age profile of methods. 7. This issue The articles of this issue only partly cover the richness of the papers delivered at the Seminar.
But this of course within the confines of linear innovation processes. 2. 2. Adaptive planning The type of (self-criticism levelled in the closing part of the previous section is in no way new to the foresight community,
in our experience, is understood not well by the foresight community, and therefore we claim to provide here a novel integrative framework for taking on several of the main weaknesses of current foresight practice.
With these caveats, we do believe AF to be a good answer to many of the queries currently harboured in and around the foresight community.
In particular, Finnish and other Nordic foresight communities have analysed and utilised foresight from this perspective (Eerola et al. 2004;
and extensive elements are present. 3. Empirical findings on foresight projects addressing societal challenges 3. 1. Introduction Major societal challenges have been addressed by the foresight community for already several decades.
In this paper we focus our analysis on three areas that have been addressed increasingly by the foresight community:
suggesting that the need for combining methods is less felt than in the foresight communities, possibly because foresight is more recent and still wants to prove its usefulness. 388 K. Haegeman et al./
and research agendas it is little wonder that at times the foresight community expressed concerns, like in 2004,
In the view of the editors of this Special issue the FTA and Foresight communities may be at a turning point:
At the moment many conversations in the foresight community point towards the emergence of a shared sense-making framework, one that could help to map current undertakings as well as,
and organization of anticipatory systems seems to offer shared sense-making framework for the FTA and Foresight communities.
Hopefully the FTA and Foresight communities will be able to continue to build humanity's capacity to understand the future through conferences such as FTA,
and so best methods practice is spreading rapidly within the foresight community. Thus, while the methodology of foresight study and focus is also important,
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