Future Oriented Technology Analysis

Author : Cristiano Cagnin,Michael Keenan,Ron Johnston,Fabiana Scapolo,Rémi Barré
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540688112

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Future-Oriented Technology Analysis by Cristiano Cagnin,Michael Keenan,Ron Johnston,Fabiana Scapolo,Rémi Barré Pdf

The application of foresight to address the challenges of uncertainty and rapid change has grown dramatically in the past decade. In that period, the techniques have been greatly refined and the scope has been broadened to encompass future-oriented technology analysis (FTA) and more recently, the concept and practice of strategic intelligence. FTA addresses directly the longer-term future through the active and continuous development of visions, and pathways to realise these visions. It is increasingly seen as a valuable management and policy tool complementing, and extending further into the future, classical strategy, planning, and decision-making approaches. This book charts the development of FTA and provides the first coherent description and analysis of its practical application and impact in the worlds of business, government, education and research in both advanced and developing countries. It draws on papers addressing the application of FTA around the globe which were presented at the Second International Seville Seminar in September 2006. The insights and practical experience will be invaluable for company managers, government ministers and officials, researchers and academics with responsibilities for effective planning and decision-making in an increasingly turbulent and unpredictable world.

Author : Haydar Yalcin,Tugrul U. Daim
Publisher : Wiley-IEEE Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1119909856

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Future-Oriented Technology Assessment by Haydar Yalcin,Tugrul U. Daim Pdf

Comprehensive resource explaining how to evaluate technologies for different purposes in any industry using four different practical approaches By identifying emerging technology and application trends through analyses of published papers and patents, Future-Oriented Technology Assessment offers a comprehensive view of technology assessment structured into three different practical approaches: Technology Evaluation, Technology Roadmapping, and Technology Intelligence. The first three chapters include studies which utilize technology gap analysis, multiple criteria decision analysis, expert assessment quantification or neural networks to evaluate or forecast technology alternatives. The next four chapters use technology roadmapping, which charts a comprehensive plan for implementing technology. The final five chapters apply bibliometric analysis, patent analysis, and network analysis to identify technology trends and the leaders in the field. Additional topics covered in Future-Oriented Technology Assessment include: Smart grid technology as an alternative to fossil fuel consumption Heat pump water heaters that reduce the cost of energy and improve energy efficiency, with particular focus on research from the US and China Nanotechnology in construction in Saudi Arabia to improve heat insulation, energy efficiency, and tensile strength in green building designs With comprehensive, practical insight into evaluating emerging technologies across different industries, Future-Oriented Technology Assessment is an essential read for researchers in technology and professionals in engineering and technology management, along with professionals and graduate students in related disciplines and programs of study.

Author : Daniel R. A. Schallmo,Joseph Tidd
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030693800

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Digitalization by Daniel R. A. Schallmo,Joseph Tidd Pdf

What do vehicle manufacturers like Rosenbauer, logistics companies like DB Schenker, a compressor manufacturer such as Bauer, an elevator manufacturer such as ThyssenKrupp, and a hygiene goods manufacturer like Hagleitner all have in common? They all use the potential of digitization to offer smarter and faster services to customers and to actively shape the digital transformation of their business models. This book provides valuable insights with concise and established guidelines for the successful digital transformation of business models. Professionals in management, strategic planning, business development, as well as researchers and students from the fields of innovation/technology management, strategic management, and entrepreneurship would particularly benefit from this book.

Author : Bill Sharpe
Publisher : Triarchy Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781911193876

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Three Horizons by Bill Sharpe Pdf

A practical framework for thinking about the future... and an exploration of 'future consciousness' and how to develop it

Author : Andreas Lösch,Armin Grunwald,Martin Meister,Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783658271558

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Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present by Andreas Lösch,Armin Grunwald,Martin Meister,Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer Pdf

​The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume.

Author : Dirk Meissner,Leonid Gokhberg,Alexander Sokolov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642318276

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Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the Future by Dirk Meissner,Leonid Gokhberg,Alexander Sokolov Pdf

​The book gives practical guidance for policy makers, analysts and researchers on how to make the most of the potential of Foresight studies. Based on the concept of evidence-based policy-making, Foresight studies are common practice in many countries and are commonly understood as a supportive tool in designing future-oriented strategies. The book outlines approaches and experiences of integrating such Foresight studies in the making and implementation of science, technology and innovation (STI) policies at different national levels. It delivers insights into practical approaches of developing STI policy measures oriented towards future societal and technological challenges based on evidence drawn from comparable policy measures worldwide. Authors from leading academic institutions, international organizations and national governments provide a sound theoretical foundation and framework as well as checklists and guidelines for leveraging the potential impact of STI policies.​

Author : Tugrul U. Daim,Denise Chiavetta,Alan L. Porter,Ozcan Saritas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319390567

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Anticipating Future Innovation Pathways Through Large Data Analysis by Tugrul U. Daim,Denise Chiavetta,Alan L. Porter,Ozcan Saritas Pdf

This book aims to identify promising future developmental opportunities and applications for Tech Mining. Specifically, the enclosed contributions will pursue three converging themes: The increasing availability of electronic text data resources relating to Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I). The multiple methods that are able to treat this data effectively and incorporate means to tap into human expertise and interests. Translating those analyses to provide useful intelligence on likely future developments of particular emerging S&T targets. Tech Mining can be defined as text analyses of ST&I information resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI). It combines bibliometrics and advanced text analytic, drawing on specialized knowledge pertaining to ST&I. Tech Mining may also be viewed as a special form of “Big Data” analytics because it searches on a target emerging technology (or key organization) of interest in global databases. One then downloads, typically, thousands of field-structured text records (usually abstracts), and analyses those for useful CTI. Forecasting Innovation Pathways (FIP) is a methodology drawing on Tech Mining plus additional steps to elicit stakeholder and expert knowledge to link recent ST&I activity to likely future development. A decade ago, we demeaned Management of Technology (MOT) as somewhat self-satisfied and ignorant. Most technology managers relied overwhelmingly on casual human judgment, largely oblivious of the potential of empirical analyses to inform R&D management and science policy. CTI, Tech Mining, and FIP are changing that. The accumulation of Tech Mining research over the past decade offers a rich resource of means to get at emerging technology developments and organizational networks to date. Efforts to bridge from those recent histories of development to project likely FIP, however, prove considerably harder. One focus of this volume is to extend the repertoire of information resources; that will enrich FIP. Featuring cases of novel approaches and applications of Tech Mining and FIP, this volume will present frontier advances in ST&I text analytics that will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, scholars and policy makers in the fields of R&D planning, technology management, science policy and innovation strategy.

Author : Dawn Garbett,Alan Ovens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319394787

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Being Self-Study Researchers in a Digital World by Dawn Garbett,Alan Ovens Pdf

This book presents research on the intersection of self-study research, digital technologies, and the development of future-oriented practices in teacher education. It explores the changing teacher education landscape by considering issues that are central to doing self-study: context and location; data access, generation and analysis; social and personal media; forms and transformations of pedagogy; identity; and ethics in an increasingly digital world. Self-study research on, with, and around digital technologies is highly significant in education where the rapid development and ubiquity of such technologies are an integral part of teacher educators’ everyday pedagogical and research practices. Blended and virtual environments are now not only commonplaces in which to teach about teaching but also to research about teaching. The book highlights how digital technologies can enhance the pedagogies and knowledge base of teacher education research and practice while remaining circumspect of grandiose claims. Each chapter addresses aspects of doing self-study with educational technology, and provides issues for discussion and debate for readers wanting to engage in self-study.

Author : Flemming Sørensen,Francesco Lapenta
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781785364860

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Research Methods in Service Innovation by Flemming Sørensen,Francesco Lapenta Pdf

Research Methods in Service Innovation provides an essential methodological toolbox for researchers, students and practitioners interested in better understanding innovation and improving innovation processes in service organisations. Each chapter presents a specific method, introduces its theoretical foundations, explains its practical application, and provides examples and suggestions for its implementation.

Author : Kohei Arai,Rahul Bhatia,Supriya Kapoor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030325206

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Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019 by Kohei Arai,Rahul Bhatia,Supriya Kapoor Pdf

This book presents state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems and offers a vision of future research. Featuring 143 papers from the 4th Future Technologies Conference, held in San Francisco, USA, in 2019, it covers a wide range of important topics, including, but not limited to, computing, electronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, security and communications and their applications to the real world. As such, it is an interesting, exciting and inspiring read.

Author : Federica Lucivero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319232829

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Ethical Assessments of Emerging Technologies by Federica Lucivero Pdf

This book systematically addresses the issue of assessing the normative nature of visions of emerging technologies in an epistemologically robust way. In the context of democratic governance of emerging technologies, not only it is important to reflect on technologies’ moral significance, but also to address their emerging and future oriented character. The book proposes an original approach to deal with the issue of “plausible” ethical evaluation of new technologies. Taking its start from current debates about Technology Assessment, the proposed solution emerges as a combination of theoretical and methodological insights from the fields of Philosophy of Technology, Science and Technology Studies and a normative justification based on pragmatist ethics. The book’s main contribution is to engage a diverse and interdisciplinary audience (ethicists, philosophers, social scientists, technology assessment researchers and practitioners) in a reflection concerning the epistemological challenges that are associated to the endeavour of appraising the moral significance of emerging technologies in the attempt of democratically governing them. It brings together concepts and methodologies from different disciplines and shows their synergy in applying them to two specific case studies of emerging biomedical technologies.

Author : James Katz,Juliet Floyd,Katie Schiepers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030848835

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Perceiving the Future through New Communication Technologies by James Katz,Juliet Floyd,Katie Schiepers Pdf

The volume offers multiple perspectives on the way in which people encounter and think about the future. Drawing on the perspectives of history, literature, philosophy and communication studies, an international ensemble of experts offer a kaleidoscope of topics to provoke and enlighten the reader. The authors seek to understand the daily lived experience of ordinary people as they encounter new technology as well as the way people reflect on the significance and meaning of those technologies. The approach of the volume stresses the quotidian quality of reality and ordinary understandings of reality as understood by people from all walks of life. Providing expert analysis and sophisticated understanding, the focus of attention gravitates toward how people make meaning out of change, particularly when the change occurs at the level of social technologies- the devices that modify and amplify our modes of communication with others. The volume is organised into three main sections: The phenomena of new communication technology in people's lives from a contemporary viewpoint; the meaning of robots and AI as they play an increasing role in people's experience and; broader issues concerning the operational, sociological and philosophical implications of people as they address a technology driven future.

Author : Sümer Şahin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319741239

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8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017) by Sümer Şahin Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Product Management (EPPM 2017), highlighting the importance of engineering, project and product management in a region of the world that is in need of transformation and rebuilding. The aim of the conference was to bring together the greatest minds in engineering and management and offer them a platform to share their innovative, and potentially transformational, findings. The proceedings are comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and advanced in their approach with an appeal not only for academicians and university students but also for professionals in various engineering fields, especially construction, manufacturing and production.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Page : 1021 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781914587740

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ECKM 2023 24th European Conference on Knowledge Managemen Vol 1 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan L. Porter,Scott W. Cunningham,Jerry Banks,A. Thomas Roper,Thomas W. Mason,Frederick A. Rossini
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470440902

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Forecasting and Management of Technology by Alan L. Porter,Scott W. Cunningham,Jerry Banks,A. Thomas Roper,Thomas W. Mason,Frederick A. Rossini Pdf

Published in 1991, the first edition of Forecasting and Management of Technology was one of the leading handful of books to deal with the topic of forecasting of technology and technology management as this discipline was emerging. The new, revised edition of this book will build on this knowledge in the context of business organizations that now place a greater emphasis on technology to stay on the cutting edge of development. The scope of this edition has broadened to include management of technology content that is relevant to now to executives in organizations while updating and strengthening the technology forecasting and analysis content that the first edition is reputed for. Updated by the original author team, plus new author Scott Cunningham, the book takes into account what the authors see as the innovations to technology management in the last 17 years: the Internet; the greater focus on group decision-making including process management and mechanism design; and desktop software that has transformed the analytical capabilities of technology managers. Included in this book will be 5 case studies from various industries that show how technology management is applied in the real world.