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Synopsis: Indicators: Technology indicator:

and technology indicators and enables the identification of possible fields which may cause challenges for the regulatory framework and the regulatory bodies.

The most important science and technology indicators are publications in scientific journals and patents 20. The former indicator reflects better the activities in basic research

Fig. 2 gives an overview of the science and technology indicators. The use of indicators to perform regulatory foresight exercises is just beginning.

and technology indicators in order to explain future challenges for regulatory authorities, including standardisation organisations. Blind 25 shows, based on international and inter-sectoral cross-section data, that the output of formal standardisation bodies can be explained significantly by the patent applications as a reliable indicator for the dynamics in the respective technologies.

and innovation activities may challenge the existing regulatory framework and Fig. 2. Science and technology indicators (Source: Blind 21 modifying Grupp 24). 502 K. Blind/Technological forecasting

Whereas standardisation activities are connected meanwhile to science and technology indicators in a reliable way 21, the link between science and technology indicators and indicators describing the regulatory framework is established not yet.

This deficit is caused by a significant lack of regulatory indicators and especially of respective time series and of rather differentiated sub-categories in regulation.

and especially technology indicators are a possible source to detect challenges for the regulatory framework in the future. However this is a rather new approach,

and technology indicators are not sufficient. It is necessary to focus, in a second step, on the regulationreleevan aspects and also to make use of the information about the stakeholders active for regulatory action in a potential new field.

Science and technology indicators are easily available in publicly provided or commercially distributed databases. However, the methodological challenge is to meet the adequate level of specification and differentiation of the technology indicators,

which fits to the differentiation of the regulatory landscape. The methodological approach is rather innovative and therefore neither broadly applied nor accepted.

The simple quantitative use of science and technology indicators in order to detect future challenges for the regulatory framework is not sufficient.

Especially the use of science and technology indicators to detect future challenges for and fields of regulations is developed not yet.

and technology indicators combined with qualitative data Systematic approach Only quantitative data is not sufficient to detect emerging fields of regulation Comparison across technologies,

who also cannot be identified by the use of science and technology indicators. The use of Delphi studies for regulatory foresight is faced with the similar strengths

M. Thorne, ed.,Foresight, OST, DTI, London, 1999.38 EC, Third European Report on Science & Technology indicators 2003:

Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy, Office for Official Publications of the European communities, Luxembourg, 2003.39 OECD, Main Science and Technology indicators, OECD, Paris, 2006.40 M. Thorne (Ed.),Universities

Relying upon regular inputs of strategic technology indicators across a range of key competitive indices, and complementing these with information from future-oriented stakeholder surveys,

Innovation policy Science and Technology indicators Barometer Future-oriented knowledge 1. Introduction A growing number of different international comparison systems of the economic and innovation performance of nations have emerged within a decade 2

China Science and Technology indicators (2008) and from<http://www. sts. org. cn>accessed 20 may 2011.264.

China Science and Technology indicators. 2008), p. 54. Beijing: Scientific and Technical Documents Publishing house. China Statistical Yearbook on Science and Technology.

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