With continuous breakthrough of key technologies, common technologies, emerging technologies, cross technologies, and subversive technologies, which have brought profound changes to politics, economy, society, culture, and environment. Under above-mentioned background, further exert the guiding role of technology foresight in technology planning formulation, further study the supporting role of technology foresight in emerging technology management, which is important for academic research, enterprise practice and government decision-making This article can be divided into two parts, the literature review part mainly includes published articles, keyword network, citation network, which describes the historical context, current status, future trends, limitations and improvement directions of related research in detail. The practice comparison part mainly includes targets and experts, methods and processes, technologies and fields, which is also a feasible perspective for results evaluating. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.