Technology intelligence identifying and evaluating new technologies

Author

Lang, Hans-Christoph ; Mueller, Marc

Author_Institution

Inst. of Manage. & Bus. Syst. Eng., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

fYear

1997

fDate

27-31 Jul 1997

Firstpage

218

Abstract

Summary form only given. Technological change affects all business sectors, presenting threats as well as opportunities. Strategic planning requires technology intelligence to identify technological developments in time. A model linking market needs via innovation fields to the technological environment is proposed. We distinguish between technology fields based on technologies in use at the company and interesting technology fields which can be limited by future product functions and weak signals on technological trends. Based on this model a technology intelligence process consisting of formulation of information needs, selection of information sources, data collection and evaluation of information is described

Keywords

strategic planning; data collection; future product functions; information needs formulation; information sources selection; innovation fields; market needs; new technologies evaluation; strategic planning; technological developments identification; technological environment; technological trends; technology intelligence; weak signals; Appraisal; Business; Engineering management; Investments; Joining processes; Strategic planning; Systems engineering and theory; Technological innovation; Technology management; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovation in Technology Management - The Key to Global Leadership. PICMET '97: Portland International Conference on Management and Technology

Conference_Location

Portland, OR

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3574-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PICMET.1997.653336

Filename

653336