Foreword Preface Part I – Technology Assessment in Various Parts of the World
1. Technology Assessment: A Layman’s Overview
2. Technology Assessment in Great Britain
3. Technology Assessment in the U.S.S.R. or The Science of Science: A Basis for The Effective Management of Scientific Activity
4. Technology Assessment in Sweden
5. Technology Assessment in Israel
6. Technology Assessment in Japan
7. Technology Assessment in Canada
8. Technology Assessment: Seen from the Smaller Country
9. Technology Assessment in France
10. Technological Forecasting, Assessment and Industrial Development in Europe and the U.S.
11. Technology Assessment in Germany
12. A Method for Planning and Assessing Technology Against Relevant National Goals
13. Interdisciplinary Considerations in Sponsoring Technology Assessments
14. Jamaica Bay / Kennedy Airport: Anatomy of a Technological Assessment
15. Technology Assessment: An Instrument for Goal Formulation and the Selection of Problem Areas
16. The Scope and Limits of Technology Assessment
17. The Environment: A Systems Approach with Emphasis on Monitoring
18. The Future Environment for Technology Assessment
19. Towards a Humanized Technology – How Rational is Technology Assessment?
20. Shifts in National Priorities, Economic Growth, and Requirements for Scientists and Engineers
21. The Social Responsibility of Business or the Changing Role of Goals in Corporate and R&D Planning
22. How Men Can Shape Their Future
23. U.S. Executive Agencies and Technology Assessment
24. The Requirements of Technology Assessment Part II – Methodological Considerations
25. Introducing Societal Indicators into Technology Assessment
26. Technology Assessment; Some Economic Aspects: The Contribution of Research and Development to Economic Growth in the United States
27. The Role of Law and Lawyers in Technology Assessment
28. Measurement and Technology Assessment
29. Utilization of Cross-Impact in Technology Assessment
30. The Trimatrix – An Integration Technique for Technology Assessment
31. A Macro-Assessment Methodology Part III – Case Studies
32. Technology Assessment and Policy-Making in the United States
33. A Preliminary Technology Assessment of Solid State Microwave Devices
34. Benefit-Cost Studies in Socio-Technical Systems
35. Technological Alternatives for Enhanced Urban Uses of Water and Related Land Resources
36. Food Production Wastes – Summary of a Case Study of a Systems Approach to Research Program Planning
37. Methodology for Technological Assessment – Case Study Experience in the United States Part IV – The Future of Technology Assessment
38. Technological Forecasting in Technology Assessment
39. Four American Futures: Reflections on the Role of Planning
40. Relating the Impacts of Technology to the Roles of Agencies
41. The Future of Technology Assessment in Policy Formulation
42. Some Modest Conclusions on the Future of Technology Assessment