Identification of future fields of standardisation: An explorative application of the Delphi methodology

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 78, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1526-1541

  Goluchowicz, Kerstin ^a   Blind, Knut ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER FOKUS   (Germany)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Delphi; Science and technology indicators; Standardisation foresight

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SCIENCE; DELPHI; DELPHI METHODOLOGY; DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INDICATORS; TECHNICAL STANDARDS;

SURVEYS; TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING; TECHNOLOGY;

STANDARDIZATION;

DELPHI ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; STANDARDIZATION;

EID: 82455208994     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.04.014     Document Type: Article

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