Category: Future-oriented technology analysis

  • Measuring tech emergence: A contest

    Highlights Thirteen teams strive to distinguish emerging research topics in synthetic biology. Analyses of ten years of article abstracts predict topics in the next two years. Augmenting, consolidating, embedding, and clustering text help detect emergence. Analyses of citation patterns and research networking also help discern emergence. We conducted a contest to predict highly active research…

  • Tech mining to validate and refine a technology roadmap

    This study uses ‘tech mining’ (extracting intelligence from R&D data) to validate and refine the content of a particular section of a landmark roadmap of nanotechnology for aeronautics. We utilize topical content from publications and patents to analyze the developmental status of nanocomposite coating technologies. This enables us to validate predictions made by specialists, as…

  • Exploring Technology Evolution Pathways to Facilitate Technology Management: From a Technology Life Cycle Perspective

    Technological innovation is a dynamic process that spans the life cycle of an idea, from scientific research to production. Within this process, there are often a few key innovations that significantly impact a technology’s development, and the ability to identify and trace the development of these key innovations comes with a great payoff for researchers…

  • Foresight through Strategic Technology Intelligence for Collaboration and Innovation Pathways (FULL-TEXT)

    Formulating a strategic direction for long-term growth is critical to address the challenges of technological competitiveness in the globalisation era. This article presents a case study of the technology of shelf life extension for agricultural foods. We propose strategic technology intelligence (STI) as an approach that combines quantitative tools with a qualitative technique using technological…