Mauritius is at a crucial stage in its development, on the trajectory towards a knowledge-based economy and society. Clearly Mauritius needs to enhance and extend its capacity for knowledge based enterprise, governance and society, through coordinated programmes of research and innovation, to build 'anticipatory intelligence for a knowledge based nation'. The National Research Foresight Exercise (NRFE) aimed to map out a medium-longer term research & innovation (R&I) strategy for Mauritius.