Technology Forecasting—New Tools for an Old Responsibility

A very early warning system for the rapid identification and transfer of new technology

“…This report is intended to provide an experiential base for other organizations with such requirements; it describes the establishment and operational mechanisms of a system which was in day-to-day use and met the needs of our company for a period of two years. At the heart of this system is the concept, the basis in fact of exploratory technological forecasting, that a new technology emerges from a concept into useful application over a relatively long period of time through a series of discreet innovative steps (5).…”