Predicting the future: Lessons from evolutionary theory

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 51-62

  Bowonder, B ^a   Miyake, T ^b   Muralidharan, B ^b  

^a ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF COLLEGE OF INDIA   (India)

^b NONE

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EID: 23044457879     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0040-1625(99)00020-7     Document Type: Article

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