Technological Forecasting and Social Change (TFSC) is a leading peer-reviewed journal that addresses issues at the intersection of technology society. A major strategy to actively solicit publish Special Issues (SIs). These SIs were first launched in 1979 highlight manuscripts from “hot” emerging discipline. This paper aims analyze it's impact on TFSC as compared Regular (RIs). Using bibliometr...

Technological advancement in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) has made it become an invaluable component of a reliable environmental monitoring system; they form the ’digital skin’ through which to ’sense’ and collect the context of the surroundings and provides information on the process leading to complex events such as drought. However, these environmental properties are measured by various he...

Business people increasingly throw up their arms in despair as their acknowledgement of a constantly changing environment that defies the somnambulant trust in managerial omniscience applied in quantitative forecasting. Desperate management all too often takes up the latest management fads or technological breakthrough as the ultimate panacea in the light of growing competition, rising complexi...

Today’s technological development and global competition in markets, requires suppliers of products and services to introduce new products or to improve their current products in order to survive. Fast technological development in the high tech sector also makes this global competition even harder for firms in today’s market place, because technology advances have shortened the life cycle for m...

This discussion article contains a reflection of the challenges I encountered while teaching technological forecasting to undergraduate students. group these into three groups: inherent uncertainty process, lack appropriate learning materials, and existing methodological inconsistencies. discuss how appeared in my classroom, whenever possible, tried solve them. conclude by discussing some actio...

The rapid growth of patent documents has called for the development of sophisticated patent analysis tools. Currently, there are various tools that are being utilized by organizations for analyzing patents. These tools are capable of performing wide range of tasks, such as analyzing and forecasting future technological trends, conducting strategic technology planning, detecting patent infringem...