Results of Technology Foresight in the Surface Engineering Area

The article presents the strategic positions of 140 critical materials surface engineering technologies. Critical technologies are such having the best development prospects and/or key significance in industry for the assumed time horizon. For the purpose of preparing forecasts and analyses, expert studies were carried out comprised of three stages with the e-Delphix method. The strategic positions of the technologies were expressed with numbers and entered into the matrix of strategies for technologies consisting of 16 fields.