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Development of Technology Foresight: Integration of Technology Roadmapping and the Delphi Method

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This study examines the integration of the Delphi method with technology roadmapping as a new technology foresight process. The Delphi method and technology roadmapping have developed in different ways, and these two foresight methods are now attracting attention from both national governments and private companies. However, each method also has limitations when attempting to deal with accelerating technological complexity and sophistication and latent markets. This study reviews the merits and demerits of the Delphi method and technology roadmapping, and proposes a new method of technology foresight, which takes advantage of the strengths of both methods.

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  1. Department of Business and Information Systems, Hokkaido Information University, Nishinopporo 59-2, Ebetsu, Hokkaido, 069-8585, Japan

    Daisuke Kanama

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  1. Institut für Projektmanagement und, Innovation (IPMI), Universität Bremen, Wilhelm-Herbst-Str. 12, Bremen, 28359, Germany

    Martin G. Moehrle

  2. Innovation Research ISI, Competence Center Innovation and, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and, Breslauer Straße 48, Karlsruhe, 76139, Germany

    Ralf Isenmann

  3. Institute for Manufacturing, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Charles Babbage Road 17, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, United Kingdom

    Robert Phaal

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Kanama, D. (2013). Development of Technology Foresight: Integration of Technology Roadmapping and the Delphi Method. In: Moehrle, M., Isenmann, R., Phaal, R. (eds) Technology Roadmapping for Strategy and Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33923-3_10

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