Quality of data, information and knowledge in technology foresight processes

Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Information Quality, ICIQ 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Melkas, Helinä ^a   Uotila, Tuomo ^a  

^a LAPPEENRANTA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Data Quality; Futures Research; Information Quality; Knowledge Quality; Technology Foresight

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; EMPIRICAL CASE STUDIES; FINLAND; INFORMATION QUALITY; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; QUALITY DATA; QUALITY OF DATA; QUALITY OF RESULTS; TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84871598346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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