In my opinion, foresight is more concerned with identifying major trends over the coming years (or decades), so as to provide decision-makers with the means to influence the future by adapting their policies in the direction they consider most favourable. This is why foresight work focuses on defining the main parameters around which developments will be organised. Forecast, on the other hand (which generally takes place over a shorter time horizon), has also the character of a decision-making aid, mainly to enable adaptation to phenomena deemed highly probable, or even inevitable: the aim is not to influence possible futures, but above all to adapt to the predicted future.
Others will certainly have different definitions. In any case, these are the ones we have adopted at our institute, where we regularly carry out foresight exercises on a wide variety of subjects:
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