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This concluding chapter looks toward the future and reinforces the need to further develop the poster medium and conferences as a whole. Current figures show the predominant place of poster presentation at conferences, together with a continuing growth in published presentation rates and also conference expenditure. It stresses that many of the issues raised with poster presentation are not in fact new – rather they have been individually raised in the widespread literature of a number of disciplines. In drawing this research together and applying it to the current context, this work not only provides a critique of what is but also identifies what should be, what needs to be, and how we might get there. Work in this area of scientific communication and professional development is still lacking, but it is hoped that this book will stimulate the attention of the academic/scientific communities and also those who support these conference endeavors.
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Rowe, N. (2017). Thinking Toward the Future. In: Academic & Scientific Poster Presentation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61280-5_13
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