Abstract
While ‘foresight’ has become a vogue word for some successful participatory, future-oriented activities, the need for abstract definitions or theoretical underpinnings has arisen to improve efficiency. Defining foresight would be certainly easier if foresight could be included in a special category of practice or if foresight fell under some of the major categories of academic activities. Indeed, some of the foresighters regard foresight as a practice, while others consider it to be more of a science.
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This work was supported by the Hungarian Science Foundation TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR-2010-0005 project.
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Alács, P. (2013). Micro-Meso-Macro: From the Heritage of the Oracle to Foresight. In: Giaoutzi, M., Sapio, B. (eds) Recent Developments in Foresight Methodologies. Complex Networks and Dynamic Systems, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5215-7_7
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