Reach and Impact of Forward Looking Activities. Case Study Analysis of follow-up briefs

What is the impact of foresight? Although foresight is employed widely by public and private users, there is little knowledge about the role, use and impact of foresights. The European Foresight Monitoring Network, for instance, has de-scribed more than 2000 foresights projects which were organised in the last 15 years, though, only a few studies have analysed the impact of these initiatives. This article aims to empirically investigate selected foresight projects. We want to identify those factors that support the implementation of fore-sight results and are used by various stakeholders, e.g. the customers, organisers, participants of workshops, public, interest groups.