Starting Point Technological Policy
 
 
  • Decision makers in technological policy locate their ideal type of tasks in the following areas:
    • Climate Setting: improvement of the innovation climate
    • Surveying: observation of trends
    • Coordinating: support of networking and co-operation
    • Gap filling: closure of gaps on the innovation path

  • The performance of these tasks is hampered by the following factors:
    • Technological dynamics
    • Short budgets
    • Complex decision cycles
  • This entails an increased demand of decision makers for:
    • Bridges to the actors; bridges between the actors
    • Enhanced perspectives; external view
    • Professionalisation of bases for decision
    • Tangibility and communicability
  
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