Vision 2023: Turkey's national Technology Foresight Program: A contextualist analysis and discussion

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1374-1393

  Saritas, Ozcan ^a   Taymaz, Erol ^b   Tumer, Turgut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Contextualism; Foresight; Science and Technology policy; Turkey; Vision 2023

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY;

CONTEXTUALISM; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING;

DEVELOPING WORLD; FORECASTING METHOD; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 34548316811     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2006.07.005     Document Type: Article

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