Showing papers in "Technological Forecasting and Social Change in 1970"

TL;DR: The authors discusses some main issues of policy-oriented future studies, from a policy sciences point of view, and arrives at fifteen guidelines for such studies, and discusses the main issues that need to be addressed.

TL;DR: In this article, the normex forecasting technique is applied to examine the historical dynamics of the commercial jet aircraft engine market and to forecast future market characteristics as a function of selected engine performance parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that technological forecasting is necessary but by itself insufficient for overall effective R&D planning, because which of the many available technological alternatives are exploited will be a function of their social efficiency.

TL;DR: An URBAN GROWTH MODEL as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to understand ALTERNATIVE URBANEGROWTH PATTERNS in SUCH a way that they may be EVALUATED by POLICYMAKERS is CONSTRUCTED and ASSESSED.