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Introduction: Orphan Technologies: Defining the Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Judith L. Wagner
Affiliation:
Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress

Abstract

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Special Section: Orphan Technologies
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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