Saritas, Ozcan [Research Associate, PREST, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, United Kingdom], Erol Taymaz [Professor of Economics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey] and S. Turgut Tumer [Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey]
Revised version was published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change (74): 1374-1393. , 2006
This paper describes and analyses Vision 2023 Turkish National Technology Foresight Program. The paper is not about a mere description of the activities undertaken. It analyses the Program from a contextualist perspective, where the Program is considered in its own national and organizational contexts by discussing how the factors in these contexts led to the particular decisions taken and approaches adopted when the exercise was organized, designed and practiced...
