Visioning for Innovation - How Firms Inject Knowledge about the Future into Innovative Activities

IEEE International Engineering Management Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 301-305

  Von Wartburg, Iwan ^a   Teichert, Thorsten ^a   Rost, Katja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Communication; Disruptive and emerging technologies; Forecasting; Sensemaking; Technology prediction; Visioning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

DISRUPTIVE AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; SENSEMAKING PROCESSES; VISIONING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 1142287681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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