Foresight support systems to facilitate regional innovations: A conceptualization case for a German logistics cluster

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 97, Issue , 2015, Pages 15-28

  Keller, Jonas ^a   Markmann, Christoph ^a   von der Gracht, Heiko A ^b  

^a EBS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster; Foresight support systems; Information technology; Prediction market; Regional innovation; Trend database

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLUSTER; GERMAN FEDERAL MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE EXPLOITATION; PREDICTION MARKETS; REGIONAL INNOVATION; REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS; SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

REGIONAL PLANNING;

EID: 84930819297     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2013.12.031     Document Type: Article

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