Using Foresight Methods for Attracting Investments into National Economy

Abstract

The advantage of this type of research is that “foresight” forms the map of future possibilities and allows creating a basis for successful development in 20–30 years. The foresight methodology was constantly changed. The set of the used methods was expressed in the foresight triangle, within which the methods were distributed according to three criteria: creativity, expertise, and interaction. Application of foresight technologies can stimulate development of all spheres of public life and is applicable within state management and development of business. Each company has a life cycle, the peak of which must present a novelty for the market—in order to stay in it—and this is what “foresight” does, developing technologies of the future. Progressive nature of the foresight technology consists in its correspondence to the character of modern economy, according to development of which it is necessary to form a complex approach that supposes modeling of the process of investment attraction into national economy, which will allow, based on analysis of dynamics and planning of investments processes planning, selecting adequate tools for their regulation and ensuring formation of investment potential of Russian regions, as well as developing investment programs and projects.