Research on emerging technology selection and assessment by technology foresight and fuzzy consistent matrix

Foresight

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 77-89

  Lucheng, Huang ^a   Xin, Li ^a   Wenguang, Lu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Fuzzy logic; Research and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951429070     PISSN: 14636689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14636681011035762     Document Type: Article

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