Technology Assessment may be defined as a systematic forecasting process that yields options, costs, and benefits of a new technology with special focus on the secondary and higher order effects of that technology.
The world’s leading authorities on Technology Assessment have contributed to Technology Assessment in a Dynamic Environment (originally published in 1973). The state of the art in the United States and elsewhere is discussed together with the methods available and proposed for conducting Technology Assessments. Representative case studies are presented with analyses of their strengths and weaknesses.