Developing national emerging technology strategy

摘要

As the pace of global competition increases, effective national technology planning is becoming a success factor for increasing the national competitiveness in not only developed but also developing economies. Governments worldwide are playing a vital role in supporting technology research and development activities in their countries [4, 26]. The effective national technology policies and strategies should go beyond merely identifying the critical technologies. The matter of nationally managing emerging technologies is becoming an issue, but a systematic way to evaluate them is not yet in place. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to develop a systematic process to help national decision makers define the R&D strategy and policy of emerging technologies.