Enabling technologies, lifecycle transitions, and industrial systems in technology foresight: Insights from advanced materials FTA

Charles R. Featherston and Eoin O'Sullivan

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017, vol. 115, issue C, 261-277

Abstract: This paper investigates opportunities to enhance Future-oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) of emerging technologies within innovation systems. We address key challenges faced by policymakers developing innovation strategies for emerging technologies. In particular, we explore ways that FTA might be structured to investigate the complex innovation system journeys of novel technologies as they are developed, diffused, and deployed. In doing this, we draw on concepts from technology and operations management and related literatures to more carefully characterise the: (1) ‘technical infrastrucutre’ required to develop emerging technologies; (2) key technology transitions involved in diffusion; and (3) complex industrial value networks into which they may eventually get deployed.

Keywords: Future-oriented Technology Analysis (FTA); Innovation systems; Emerging Technologies; Lifecycle; Industrial systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.06.025

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