Strategic Foresight in Public Research Funding: Systematic Review of Methods and Evaluated Outcomes
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22676563Keywords:
Strategic Foresight in Public Research Funding; Future science and technology; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodologyAbstract
Strategic Foresight in Public Research Funding has moved quickly from a niche scientific question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for strategic foresight in public research funding, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory
and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still largely
working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific pursuit looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either
broad rollout or blanket avoidance.
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