New Editor at Tech Forecasting Soc Change
Introduction
Fred Phillips has become Editor-in-Chief of Technological Forecasting & Social Change
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Fred Phillips has become Editor-in-Chief of Technological Forecasting & Social Change. With an impact factor of 1.776 and 330 manuscripts submitted per year, TFSC is the world’s premier scholarly journal on technology assessment and futures, and among the top three technology management journals. ELMAR lists TFSC’s tables of contents as marketing scholars interested in new product adoption read and write for the journal.
Fred’s blog on the editorial transition, with a tribute to TFSC’s founding editor Hal Linstone (who was Editor-in-Chief for 42 years), .
Fred Phillips is a Senior Fellow of the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas at Austin. After a dozen years as a market research executive, he was professor, dean, and vice provost at a variety of universities in the US, Europe, and South America.
He authored the textbook Market-Oriented Technology Management (Springer 2001); the popular title The Conscious Manager: Zen for Decision Makers (General Informatics 2003); The Technopolis Columns (Palgrave 2006); and (as editor, series editor, and author of several chapters) Managing Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship (Meyer & Meyer 2009).
Fred currently consults on technology-based regional economic development for the EPA, UNESCO, and the government of Costa Rica.
His mentors (in addition to Hal) were Operations Research pioneers Abraham Charnes, W.W. Cooper, and George Kozmetsky. His own contributions in Operations Research include "Phillips’ Law" of longitudinal sampling, and the first parallel computing experiments with Data Envelopment Analysis.
He is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Global Environmental Issues and Journal of Sustainable Technologies for Growing Economies.