Innovation Strategy Process Framework for Organizations with Regard to Foresight Approach

The emersion of new technology enhances the man's expectation of welfare's level and standard of living. The research studies have shown that innovation which is based on new technologies create new market's and enhances the volume of market. Market's demand in one hand and new technologies on the other hand, causes innovation strategy planning framework to be as an organization necessity. In this paper, first innovation processes are investigated. Since strategic thinking and future opportunities explorations need to identify future trends and foresight, so in the second step, foresight and its functionalities are presented. Then the effect of foresight functionalities on innovation process is analyzed. In the third step, a proposed framework for innovation strategy in organizations is presented based on effectiveness of strategy process structure and then the stage of this framework is explained.