Technology Assessment in a Dynamic Environment

Foreword
Raymond L. Bisplinghoff

Preface
M.J. Cetron and B. Bartocha

Part I – Technology Assessment in Various Parts of the World

1. Technology Assessment: A Layman’s Overview
David M. Kiefer

2. Technology Assessment in Great Britain
C. Sinclair

3. Technology Assessment in the U.S.S.R. or The Science of Science: A Basis for The Effective Management of Scientific Activity
G.M. Dobrov

4. Technology Assessment in Sweden
Mats Höjeberg and Daniel Sundström

5. Technology Assessment in Israel
Samuel N. Bar-zakay

6. Technology Assessment in Japan
Keichi Oshima

7. Technology Assessment in Canada
Douglas G. Bailey

8. Technology Assessment: Seen from the Smaller Country
R.W. Jackson

9. Technology Assessment in France
Raymond Saint-Paul and Pierre-Frederic Teniere-Buchot

10. Technological Forecasting, Assessment and Industrial Development in Europe and the U.S.
Antonio Martelli

11. Technology Assessment in Germany
J. Seetzen and H. Sauer

12. A Method for Planning and Assessing Technology Against Relevant National Goals
M. Cetron and L. Connor

13. Interdisciplinary Considerations in Sponsoring Technology Assessments
Joseph F. Coates

14. Jamaica Bay / Kennedy Airport: Anatomy of a Technological Assessment
Steven Ebbin

15. Technology Assessment: An Instrument for Goal Formulation and the Selection of Problem Areas
Bodo Bartocha

16. The Scope and Limits of Technology Assessment
Richard A. Carpenter

17. The Environment: A Systems Approach with Emphasis on Monitoring
William D. Rowe

18. The Future Environment for Technology Assessment
Wayne I. Boucher

19. Towards a Humanized Technology – How Rational is Technology Assessment?
Gerd D. Wallenstein

20. Shifts in National Priorities, Economic Growth, and Requirements for Scientists and Engineers
Leonard A. Lecht

21. The Social Responsibility of Business or the Changing Role of Goals in Corporate and R&D Planning
Marvin J. Cetron

22. How Men Can Shape Their Future
John Platt

23. U.S. Executive Agencies and Technology Assessment
Vary T. Coates

24. The Requirements of Technology Assessment
Miller B. Spangler

Part II: Methodological Considerations

25. Introducing Societal Indicators into Technology Assessment
Donald Overly

26. Technology Assessment; Some Economic Aspects: The Contribution of Research and Development to Economic Growth in the United States
Edwin Mansfield

27. The Role of Law and Lawyers in Technology Assessment
Harold P. Green

28. Measurement and Technology Assessment
Marvin J. Cetron and Donald N. Dick

29. Utilization of Cross-Impact in Technology Assessment
T.J. Gordon and H.S. Becker

30. The Trimatrix – An Integration Technique for Technology Assessment
Marvin J. Cetron

31. A Macro-Assessment Methodology
Christine A. Ralph

Part III – Case Studies

32. Technology Assessment and Policy-Making in the United States
Robert U. Ayres, Susan C. Simon with Jack W. Carlson

33. A Preliminary Technology Assessment of Solid State Microwave Devices
Raymond Bowers and Jeffrey Frey

34. Benefit-Cost Studies in Socio-Technical Systems
Chauncey Starr

35. Technological Alternatives for Enhanced Urban Uses of Water and Related Land Resources
Miller B. Spangler

36. Food Production Wastes – Summary of a Case Study of a Systems Approach to Research Program Planning
Theodore B. Taylor

37. Methodology for Technological Assessment – Case Study Experience in the United States
Gabor Strasser

Part IV – The Future of Technology Assessment

38, Technological Forecasting in Technology Assessment
David M. Kiefer

39. Four American Futures: Reflections on the Role of Planning
Harold A. Linstone

40. Relating the Impacts of Technology to the Roles of Agencies
Douglas G. Bailey with Andrew R. Strauss

41. The Future of Technology Assessment in Policy Formulation
Walter A. Hahn

42. Some Modest Conclusions on the Future of Technology Assessment
Marvin J. Cetron

Biography

Marvin J Cetron and Bodo Bartocha