Category: Future-oriented technology analysis
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Forecasting the Big Services Era: Novel Approach Combining Statistical Methods, Expertise and Technology Roadmapping
This paper aims at proposing a novel approach to gathering and structuring information concerning an emerging technology, generating a relevant profile, identifying its past evolution, forecasting the short and medium-term evolution and integrating all of the elements graphically into a hybrid roadmap. The approach combines four families of technological forecasting methods, namely: Statistical Methods in…
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Analyzing patent topical information to identify technology pathways and potential opportunities
As a basic knowledge resource, patents play an important role in identifying technology development trends and opportunities, especially for emerging technologies. However patent mining is restricted and even incomplete, because of the obscure descriptions provided in patent text. In this paper, we conduct an empirical study to try out alternative methods with Derwent Innovation Index…
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Integrating bibliometrics and roadmapping methods: A case of dye-sensitized solar cell technology-based industry in China
Emerging industries are attracting increasing attention as they engage in innovation activities that transgress the boundaries of science and technology. Policy makers and industrial communities use roadmapping methods to predict future industrial growth, but the existing bibliometric/workshop methods have limitations when analyzing the full-lifecycle industrial emergence, including the transitions between science, technology, application, and the…
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Prospects and Trends in the Brazilian Market for Biologically Sourced Products
The aim of this paper was to select the most interesting Brazilian biopharmaceuticals, with the best market opportunity for production.