Forecasting and Management of Technology

ALAN THOMAS ROPER (retired) was a professor at Rose-HulmanInstitute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana. He is the pasteditor of the journal Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal andthe past director of the Center for Technology and Policy Studiesat Rose-Hulman.SCOTT W. CUNNINGHAM obtained a MSc in public policy fromthe Georgia Institute of Technology and a DPhil in science,technology, and innovation policy from the University of Sussex. Heis currently Assistant Professor of Policy Analysis in theDepartment of Technology, Policy, and Management at DelftUniversity of Technology.ALAN L. PORTER has led development of "technologyopportunity analysis" and mining electronic, bibliographic datasources to generate intelligence on emerging technologies. He holdsan MA in psychology and a PhD in engineering psychology, both fromUCLA. He is currently Director of Research and Development forSearch Technology, Inc., in Norcross, Georgia.THOMAS W. MASON was the founding head of the EngineeringManagement Department (rose-hulman.edu/msem). While on athree-year leave from Rose-Hulman, he served as CFO and CEO of a140-person network management systems business.FREDERICK A. ROSSINI (retired) is a former provost atGeorge Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.JERRY BANKS is Professor Emeritus, Department ofIndustrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technologyin Atlanta, Georgia.