The role of corporate foresight and technology roadmapping in companies' innovation development: The case of Russian state-owned enterprises

•The government encourages largest SOEs to innovate.•The survey shows that most Russian SOEs lack long-term technology planning.•Technology roadmaps within IDPs contribute to SOEs' innovation activity.•We provide case studies of SOEs which successfully implement roadmaps.•We suggest a basic scheme of technology roadmap for SOEs.

In recent decades, the attention of researchers and policymakers has turned to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), in particular the role they play in science, technology and innovation and the methods they use to implement innovation strategies. In this paper, we look at Russian state-owned companies and their development plans, as well as the management tools they employ to forecast and prioritize technologies. Although most Russian SOEs rarely implement corporate foresight and technology roadmapping, certain successful cases are presented and discussed in the paper. Based on these case studies, we suggest a common structure of a technology roadmap that is suitable for SOEs.