NANOSPRINT: An Infrastructure for Nanotechnology Foresight

摘要

NanoSPRINT exploits advances in knowledge engineering to provide a new generation of tools for nanotechnology foresight. Today, the foresight paradigm must cope with new challenges including an increased magnitude of the endeavor undertaken by the scientific community and increasingly complex interactions between the actors influencing the evolution of a scientific field. Nanotechnology accentuates these challenges through some of its specific characteristics: disruptive character and interdisciplinary character. NanoSPRINT's foresight program started as a "from within" effort of the scientific community. NanoSPRINT aims at building a knowledge base incorporating inference capabilities that would empower the researcher in his day-to day endeavor.