Corporate Foresight and Innovation Management

This book sheds light on what has come to be known as corporate foresight and its influence on innovation management.

Throughout the book, the contributors examine the practice of corporate foresight and how it may lead to the identification of opportunities for innovation. They also explore the complex processes and conditions that may enable (or impede) the potential of contemporary organizations to capture value from their corporate foresight exercises.

Representing an interesting mix of competing ideas and perspectives, the book offers deep insights into the interactive effects of corporate foresight and its contribution to innovation management. This book was originally published as a special issue of Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.

David Sarpong is Reader in Strategic Management at Brunel University, London, UK, and Associate Editor for the Journal of Strategy and Management. Both his teaching and his research focus on strategy-as-practice, technology and innovation management, and strategic foresight in high velocity environments.

Dirk Meissner is Professor at the Research Laboratory for Science and Technology Studies at the Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge, Moscow, Russia. Both his teaching and his research focus on technology and innovation management and policy, with a special focus on foresight and road mapping; science, technology and innovation policies; funding of research; and priority setting.