Designing foresight studies for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NST) future developments

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1202-1223

  Salerno, Mario ^a   Landoni, Paolo ^a   Verganti, Roberto ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Foresight methodology; Foresight process; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology; Quantitative analyses

Indexed keywords

FORESIGHT METHODOLOGY; FORESIGHT PROCESS; NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSES;

NANOSCIENCE;

DESIGN; INVESTMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 51649094867     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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