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Technology Roadmapping for Strategy and Innovation: Charting the Route to Success 2013th Edition
Author(s): Martin Moehrle (Editor), Ralf Isenmann (Editor), Robert Phaal (Editor)
- Publisher: Springer
- Publication Date: 15 Jan. 2013
- Edition: 2013th
- Language: English
- Print length: 293 pages
- ISBN-10: 3642339220
- ISBN-13: 9783642339226
Book Description
The book provides a comprehensive survey of technology roadmapping since it contains papers by leading European, American and Asian experts, provides orientation regarding different methods of technology roadmapping and their interconnections, supplies readers with a compilation of the most important submethods, and embeds and links technology roadmapping in the framework of management research.
This book aims at becoming the leading compendium on technology roadmapping.
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From the Back Cover
Technology roadmapping is a core method to help companies and other organisations gain orientation for future opportunities and changes.
This book is a key resource for technology roadmapping – it provides expert knowledge in four areas:
- To frame/embed technology roadmapping
- To structure the process and tasks of technology roadmapping
- To implement technology roadmapping into corporate strategies
- To link technology roadmapping to further instruments of strategic planning and corporate foresight
This comprehensive survey of technology roadmapping includes papers from leading European, American and Asian experts:
- It provides an overview of different methods of technology roadmapping and the interactions between them
- It familiarises readers with the most important sub-methods
- It embeds/links technology roadmapping to the overall framework of management research and business studies
This book, the first of a series, is unique: it aims to become the leading compendium for technology roadmapping knowledge and practice.
About the Author
Ralf Isenmann joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Karlsruhe (Germany), in 2008. His research areas are in the interface between the management of innovation and technologies on the one hand and sustainable management, industrial ecology and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the other. Special foci are corporate foresight projects and applications of technology roadmapping at corporate, national and international level for various industrial and governmental clients. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Bremen. Since 2010 he is temporarily leading the Department for Sustainable Management at the Faculty of Business Studies, Management and Economics, University of Kassel.
Robert Phaal is a Principal Research Associate in the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge, based in the Centre for Technology Management, Institute for Manufacturing. He conducts research in the area of strategic technology management, with particular interests in technology roadmapping and evaluation, emergence of technology-based industry and the development of practical management tools. Rob has a mechanical engineering background, with a PhD in computational mechanics, with industrial experience in technical consulting, contract research and software development.
