Strategies For Conducting Technology Assessments
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2020
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-0-367-28891-4 (ISBN)
Description
Using reviews of special reports and personal interviews with team members of recent National Science Foundation-sponsored assessments, the authors have assembled an eight-step functional strategy for conducting technology assessments. The steps are set within a framework that embodies the three key elements of all assessments: technology descripti
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Academic and Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
364 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-28891-4 (9780367288914)
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Joe E. Armstrong | Willis W. Harman
Strategies For Conducting Technology Assessments
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Joe E. Armstrong | Willis W. Harman
Strategies For Conducting Technology Assessments
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06/2019
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Routledge
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Joe E. Armstrong | Willis W. Harman
Strategies For Conducting Technology Assessments
E-Book
06/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€51.49
Available for download
Persons
Joe E. Armstrong is a senior partner of Armstrong Associates, a research firm specializing in technology assessment and related study methodologies. He has had extensive experience in large-scale engineering studies, having directed electronic system laboratories for Sylvania and ESL, Inc., before turning to government and industry consulting. Willis W. Harman is associate director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy at SRI International and is a professor in the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford University.
Content
Author's Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Three Functional Elements of Technology Assessment -- The Six Cross-Cutting Concerns -- Categories of Technology Assessment and Their Effect on Strategy Emphasis -- Observations on the Practical Difficulties of Technology Assessment -- Summary and Recommendations -- Primary and Secondary Source Technology Assessments