Cristiano Cagnin

Despite the growing number of publications on firms’ performance measurement systems (PMS), consensus has not yet been achieved on the steps for their implementation within an organization. Against this background the authors report the lessons learnt in developing and testing a new PMS that they have devised advancing on the Balance Scorecard (BSC...

The field of Foresight is currently undergoing a transformation which inter alia involves a process of explicitly implementing a systemic and evolutionary understanding of innovation. The notion of Innovation System Foresight (ISF) has been proposed as a framework for advancing this process. In this paper we empirically explore ISF at the sector le...

Making decisions that embrace complexity, treating uncertainty as a resource not an enemy, calls for a significantly enhanced capacity to use the future to understand the present. Building this greater capacity rests on bringing anticipation out into the open as the way the future exists in the present. Doing so makes clear that conscious human sea...

Globally, advanced countries and institutions emphasise Foresight studies that create spaces for structured dialogue with a focus on systemic or transformative innovation. Aligned with the coordination of societal actors, foresight processes of that kind aim to better enable innovation systems to address common challenges. In doing so, foresight ac...

The paper presents recent insights from the ongoing FORLEARN project, which aims to develop Foresight theory and practise by supporting the sharing of experience (‘mutual learning’) in Europe. Six functions of Foresight for policy-making are elaborated on: • (1) Informing policy: generating insights regarding the dynamics of change, future challen...

Over the last half century or so, various tools and techniques have been developed that seek to better anticipate and shape future technological developments. Some of these approaches, particularly early on, tended to be techno-determinist in their outlook, but more recently, a greater acknowledgement of the co-evolution of technology and society h...

As the chapters in this volume have demonstrated, FTA cannot be defined by a single methodology, nor by a single goal; indeed, it encompasses the tradition of a variety of schools of thought, each one embodying a stream of theory and practice referring more or less explicitly to an understanding of what is relevant and useful. The diversity of cont...