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Alan L. Porter
Researcher at Georgia Institute of Technology
Publications - 358
Citations - 12411
Alan L. Porter is an academic researcher from Georgia Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Technology management & Emerging technologies. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 349 publications receiving 10821 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan L. Porter include University of Southern California & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time
Alan L. Porter,Ismael Rafols +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that science is indeed becoming more interdisciplinary, but in small steps — drawing mainly from neighboring fields and only modestly increasing the connections to distant cognitive areas.
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Forecasting and Management of Technology
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an approach to manage technology change in the context of management, technology, and the future management, and assess the impact of technologies and their impacts.
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Refining search terms for nanotechnology
TL;DR: In this article, a modularized Boolean approach is proposed to define nanotechnology, which has been applied to several research and patenting databases and compared with other nanotechnology search formulations.
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Tech Mining: Exploiting New Technologies for Competitive Advantage
TL;DR: This chapter discusses Tech Mining in an Information Age, which is concerned with the development of knowledge discovery, information representation, and decision-making in the rapidly changing environment.
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Technology futures analysis: Toward integration of the field and new methods
Alan L. Porter,B. Ashton,G. Clar,J.F. Coates,Kerstin Cuhls,Scott W. Cunningham,Ken Ducatel,P. van der Duin,Luke Georghiou,T. Gordon,Harold A. Linstone,Vincent Marchau,G. Massari,Ian Miles,M. Mogee,Ahti Salo,Fabiana Scapolo,R. Smits,W. Thiessen +18 more
TL;DR: Examination of the processes sheds light on ways to improve the usefulness of TFA to a variety of potential users, from corporate managers to national policy makers, to better inform technology management as well as science and research policy.