Thoughts and status quo on technological opportunity

Recent years, the importance of technological opportunity on technology innovation and technology selection is better understood by the researchers internal and abroad. Research has been done on the conception, the way to recognize and capture and realize technological opportunity, studies on which are broader. To review the status quo and tendency of technological opportunity makes it possible to explore and acquaint the nature of technological opportunity. Based on the drawbacks of the research done by now, we should realize that the process of exploring technological opportunity is a dynamic system, the main force of which is enterprises. And that is the center point of the whole study. Many other factors are as important, for instant, market demands, knowledge spillover, absorptive capacity, innovation efforts, social and even political factors, etc. A wise way is synthesizing as many factors to model the dynamic process of exploring technological opportunity.