Scientific and Technological Forecasting

Abstract

The book is concerned with one of the most urgent problems of scientifically based planning and control of the development of science and technology - contemporary methods of analyzing and forecasting trends in scientific and technological progress. The materials for this book are the most recent developments of Soviet and foreign students of science and also on the research carried out by the scientific collective headed by the author. The book presents the original theoretical conception of scientific and technological forecasting and outlines forecasting methods of interest both for practical planning works in the field of scientific and technological development, and for the projection of complex scientific and technological objects required in advanced scientific information. Similarly, the work is one of the first books in the USSR which systematically outlines and analyzes the contemporary state of scientific and technical forecasting as a complex problem in the study of science.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 21, 1971
Accession Number
AD0727232

Entities

People

  • G. M. Dobrov

Organizations

  • Air Force Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Chemical Elements
  • Chemistry
  • Computational Science
  • Databases
  • Delphi Method
  • Engineers
  • Information Science
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Mathematical Models
  • Medical Personnel
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Scientists
  • Statistical Analysis

Readers

  • Political Science/ International Relations/ European Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.