摘要：Changes that have been occurring for a few years in the modern world as a result of the global economic crisis, cause doubts as to the possibility and correctness of implementation to economic practice of theoretical concepts suggested by economics. However, a belief prevails that in the case of macroeconomic phenomena the possibilities of empirical verification of developed theories will always be limited due to changeability and complexity of economic phenomena that are very difficult to isolate from other social phenomena. A multidisciplinary approach, and especially taking into consideration economic issues in connection with technical issues, is especially needed in so-called industry economics, including the wood industry economics. The issues of innovativeness, knowledge transfer and implementation of innovative scientific and research solutions in business sphere have an important place in this process. The fact that the wood industries are based on a natural raw material offered by forestry, which raw material is a national good to some extent, results in the situation where the whole society should express their opinion on the rationality of this raw material use. Such a possibility was offered by a foresight project concerning the Polish wood industry.
关键词：economic research/sciences; foresight; wood industry
