“…Foresight, particularly within the European Union, is a very comprehensive and current topic at the international and regional level (Popper et al , 2007; Georghiou et al , 2008; Da Costa et al , 2008; Loveridge, 2009; Hilbert et al , 2009; Öner, 2010; Jemala, 2010; Destatte, 2010; Coates, 2010; Colwell and Narayanan, 2010; Könnölä et al , 2011; Daffara, 2011; Meissner, 2012; van Asselt et al , 2012; Calof and Smith, 2012; Cuhls et al , 2012; Ramos et al , 2012; Borch et al , 2013; Meissner et al , 2013; Prior et al , 2013; Andersen and Rasmussen, 2014; Borodako, 2014; Vecchiato and Roveda, 2014; Güell and Collado, 2014; Mora et al , 2014; Remi, 2014; Rijkens-Klomp and Van Der Duin, 2014; Keller et al , 2015; Sokolova, 2015). Over the past decades, the concept has evolved greatly and is much different from the first attempts of forecasting.…”