Alan Porter is Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and of Public Policy, at Georgia Tech, where he is Co-director of the Program in Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (STIP).  He is also Director of R&D for Search Technology, Inc., Norcross, GA (producers of VantagePoint and Thomson Data Analyzer software).  He is author or co-author of some 240 articles and books, including Tech Mining (Wiley, 2005) and Forecasting and Management of Technology (Wiley, 2011).  He co-founded the International Association for Impact Assessment and later served as president.
Research interests key on “forecasting innovation pathways” for newly emerging technologies.  This entails text mining of science, technology & innovation information resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence.  He currently serves as principal investigator on a U.S. National Science Foundation program to develop “Indicators of Technological Emergence.”
Publications are available at: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alan_Porter4.

He can be reached at:  Alan.porter@isye.gatech.edu.