Nordic ICT foresight: Futures of the ICT environment and applications on the Nordic level

VTT Publications

Volumn , Issue 653, 2007, Pages 3-147

  Ahlqvist, Toni ^a   Carlsen, Henrik ^b   Iversen, Jonas ^c   Kristiansen, Ernst ^d  

^a VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^b FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency   (Finland)

^c DTI Danish Technological Institute   (Finland)

^d SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Denmark; Finland; Foresight; Information and communication technologies (ICT); Nordic region; Norway; Roadmap; Scenario; Strategy; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884770951     PISSN: 12350621     EISSN: 14550849     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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