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The paper examines a not too comprehensive set of quantitative aspects of technology. It concentrates mainly on the quantification of management tools.

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  1. Department of Management Science, The George Washington University, 20052, Washington, D.C., (USA)

    J. D. Frame

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This paper was originally presented to the First Panamerican Workshop on Quantitative Methods in Science Policy and Technology Forecasting, 7–9 February 1983, San Jose, Costa Rica.

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Frame, J.D. Quantitative management of technology. Scientometrics 6, 223–232 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02279357

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