Systemic transformation, anticipatory culture, and knowledge spaces: constructing organisational capacities in roadmapping projects at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Knowledge creation dynamics in foresight: A knowledge typology and exploratory method to analyse foresight workshops

“…However, the typology of knowledge is only one part of the knowledge creation process. More research is needed, for example, to understand how to combine several foresight workshops in order to catalyse out-of-radar knowledge, how knowledge spaces in an organisation could be connected with the foresight process (see Ahlqvist et al, 2012), and how to design foresight processes and workshops in such a way that vertical movement between the knowledge types would create the best possible combinations for different purposes.…”

Theory of and within foresight — “What does a theory of foresight even mean?”

“…Barré and Keenan (2008) argue that the impact of foresight is quite poorly understood despite the accumulation of literature on the effect of foresight (e.g. Amsteus 2008; Grupp and Linstone 1999;Ahlqvist et al 2012;van der Meulen and Löhnberg 2001;Georghiou and Keenan 2006;Harper and Georghiou 2005;Miles et al 2008), due to e.g. the vagueness of the objectives of foresight in the first place, the distributed nature of activities, and especially because of the complexity of the cause and effect relationships and difficulties in measuring the possible impacts.…”

The use of foresight information in small and medium-sized enterprises - the role of intermediary organisations

“…Various studies (Major and Cordey-Hayes, 2000;Kaivo-oja, 2006;Kaivo-oja and Marttinen, 2008) have focussed on the challenge of dissemination and absorption of available foresight information. Ahlqvist et al (2012) have noted that a common problem with foresight exercises is that the produced information, no matter how relevant, remains in the project reports and lacks an action-oriented interpretation among actors and stakeholders. Ahlqvist et al (2012) also discuss the importance of fostering systemic capacities in an organisation, like an anticipatory culture that builds on anticipatory agency for strategic capabilities needed for future orientation within a changing business landscape.…”