Foresight - balancing between increasing variety and productive convergence

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1157-1175

  Rask, Mikko ^a  

^a National Consumer Research Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Balancing, Foresight; Governance of science and technology; Productive convergence; Requisite variety; Science society dialogue; Trade offs

Indexed keywords

BALANCING, FORESIGHT; GOVERNANCE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; PRODUCTIVE CONVERGENCE; REQUISITE VARIETY; SCIENCE-SOCIETY DIALOGUE; TRADE-OFFS;

COMMERCE;

CONVERGENCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STAKEHOLDER; TRADE-OFF;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 51349094263     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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