From forecasting to foresight processes—new participative foresight activities in Germany

Kerstin Cuhls

doi:10.1002/for.848

journal article Mar 01, 2003

From forecasting to foresight processes—new participative foresight activities in Germany

Kerstin Cuhls

Journal of Forecasting Vol. 22 No. 2-3 pp. 93-111 · Wiley

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Abstract

AbstractThe definitions of forecasting vary to a certain extent, but they all have the view into the future in common. The future is unknown, but the broad, general directions can be guessed at and reasonably dealt with. Foresight goes further than forecasting, including aspects of networking and the preparation of decisions concerning the future. This is one reason why, in the 1990s, when foresight focused attention on a national scale in many countries, the wording also changed from forecasting to foresight. Foresight not only looks into the future by using all instruments of futures research, but includes utilizing implementations for the present. What does a result of a futures study mean for the present? Foresight is not planning, but foresight results provide ‘information’ about the future and are therefore one step in the planning and preparation of decisions. In this paper, some of the differences are described in a straightforward manner and demonstrated in the light of the German foresight process ‘Futur’. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Published: Mar 01, 2003
Vol/Issue: 22(2-3)
Pages: 93-111
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Kerstin Cuhls (2003). From forecasting to foresight processes—new participative foresight activities in Germany. Journal of Forecasting, 22(2-3), 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.848

From forecasting to foresight processes—new participative foresight activities in Germany

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