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Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Foresight

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Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers

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Foresight has been applied by many companies for long time under different names and titles. Frequently foresight is integrated in company corporate strategies although not always called ‘foresight’. The chapter proposes a conceptual model of corporate foresight. This framework is based on a comprehensive analysis of theoretical and practical company experiences with corporate foresight. The model allows harmonizing results of corporate foresight with strategies at different levels, namely government, regional and industry which can be employed both by internal and external users.

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The chapter was prepared within the framework of the Basic Research Programme at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) and supported within the framework of the subsidy granted to the HSE by the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the Global Competitiveness Programme.

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  1. Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, National Research University Higher School of Economics, 20 Myasnitskaya Street, 101000, Moscow, Russia

    Konstantin Vishnevskiy & Oleg Karasev

  2. Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    Oleg Karasev

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  1. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Leonid Gokhberg

  2. Institute for Statistical Studies and Ec, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Dirk Meissner

  3. Higher School of Economics, National Research University, Moscow, Russia

    Alexander Sokolov

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Vishnevskiy, K., Karasev, O. (2016). Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Foresight. In: Gokhberg, L., Meissner, D., Sokolov, A. (eds) Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers. Science, Technology and Innovation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25628-3_5

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