Igor Ansoff described the important role and function that detecting and analysing weak signals plays in strategic planning. Weak signals are based on the assumption that every event or disaster caused by man is at times to be foreseen and unsurprising. Under the auspices of discrete...

Building on the existing literature on evolutionary innovation and technological change, this paper aims to identify potential signals of technological discontinuities and to obtain assessments of experts to what extent these signals help them to predict discontinuities. Furthermore, we analyze...