Regional Foresight for Bridging National Science, Technology and Innovation with Company Innovation: Experiences from Russia

Foresight as a Tool for Managing the Socio-Economic Development of Mining Regions

“…1) preparation for the study; 2) mobilization of participants; 3) prediction; 4) development of recommendations; 5) implementation of transformations K. Vyshnevsky [18] 1) pre-foresight (determination of research areas and areas for road map development); 2) analysis of primary sources (preliminary list of promising technologies and products); 3) expert procedures (formation of information for research chains: technologies -products -market); 4) creative analysis (brainstorming); 5) interactive discussion (development of alternative strategies for achieving the goals of the subject area) O. Verkhoturova [19] 1) preparation of a review of the foresight (preparation of a preliminary report with an overview of both the problem selected for the study and its features); 2) development of predictions (the main task is the selection of experts and the organization of their interaction in accordance with the selected methods; expert panels are formed according to the areas of analysis, experts are interviewed (Delphi method) or experts interact with other foresight methods (expert panels, symposia, organizational and activity games, foresight sessions); the results of surveys and the results of research activities are processed; preparatory material for road maps, possible scenarios that take into account technologies are formed; the impact of technologies on socioeconomic processes of the region is analyzed; 3) preparation of reports, road maps, scenarios (documents prepared at the second stage are processed into final documents, scenarios and road maps, technology databases and expert databases are formed); 4) spreading of foresight (use of foresight results in the formation of strategies for the development of specific areas, the formation of research priorities, the development of a mechanism of state support and specific projects).…”

An integrated approach for the evaluation of national Foresight: The Russian case

“…All these studies evaluated belong to Foresight at the national level, which, compared with the other types of Foresight (e.g. regional, corporate), usually has a broader scope, an involvement of many different stakeholders, focus on outputs and stronger links to science, technology and innovation (STI) policy (Kindras et al, 2014). In spite of the all studies related to the same level of Foresight, different approaches, methods and criteria were used for their evaluation, confirming that there is no generally accepted evaluation framework.…”