The shipbuilding sector’s multiple contributions to the social and economic development, as well as to science and technology, of major maritime countries mean that the sector attracts strong interest of entrepreneurs, researchers, and government agencies. Meanwhile the diverse forms of...

Advances in supercomputers have come at a steady pace over the past 20 years. The next milestone is to build an Exascale computer however this requires not only speed improvement but also significant enhancements for energy efficiency and massive parallelism. This paper examines technological...

Technology Intelligence has become an important field of study in which a variety of different methods are discussed, all aiming at identifying opportunities and threats arising from advances in technology. In this respect, Technology Scouting is a method which can lower the time lag between the...

This paper applies the multiple-perspective decision-making approach [Linstone (1984, 1999); Linstone and Zhu (2000)] and the concepts of discounting and technological forecasting and planning as a framework to study the influence of culture on technology development and management in Korea....

Institutes of Higher Learning such as universities and Institutes of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) have traditionally provided the skilled workforce which finds employment in industry. In this respect, industry may be viewed as the core market for which learning and training...

There can be little dispute that the UK, with its excellent science base, has the potential to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the increasing speed of scientific and technological advance. However, especially in more recent decades, this potential has been consistently wasted....

At the turn of the year, the US R&D Forecast for 2003, a joint effort of Battelle and R&D Magazine , highlighted that outside factors, including the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, were deeply impacting the levels of funding for scientific research. According to that forecast a...

Communities and neighbourhoods are often perceived to be under threat in the information society, as technological developments accelerate economic and social change. Technological developments may also provide a solution: ‘virtual communities’. There has been much debate about whether...

Employs Charles Handy’s predictions from 1989, from his book ‘The Age of Unreason’. Further emphasizes these predictions with a highlighted panel listing the predictions for clarity. Claims that Handy had an optimistic dream of work shared out and more leisure time for all — his...

This paper aims at discussing some concepts regarding technological forecasting techniques (TFTs) and competitive intelligence (CI) and presents some links between them in a strategic approach based in a theoretical review. These techniques are considered as tools for improving the innovation...

People who are interested in evaluating and rating microcomputer technology need a single, composite measure which is rich enough to enable comparing machines of widely differing time periods, features and formats. Traditionally, computers are modeled by describing four primary features ‐...

The function which managers most despise is the art of forecasting. By its very nature it concerns guessing the outcome of future events. No matter how sophisticated computer‐driven techniques and programs are evolved, the future has inherently within it events beyond the control of managers....

States that most predictions of technology development turn out to be wrong and that many companies suffer financially as a result. Gives examples of a number of companies which have predicted wrongly, showing the variety of reasons for these mistakes. Expands on the reasons and suggests that...