Creative Foresight Space and the Futures Window: Using visual weak signals to enhance anticipation and innovation

Futures

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 248-256

  Heinonen, Sirkka ^a   Hiltunen, Elina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUTURE PROSPECT; INNOVATION; MASS MEDIA; PREDICTION; SIGNAL;

EID: 84857642978     PISSN: 00163287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.futures.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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