Complexity science: Implications for forecasting

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 79-90

  Linstone, Harold A ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001978053     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-1625(99)00034-7     Document Type: Article

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