Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Patent Analysis	Technology Roadmapping
Πεδίο	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Έτος προέλευσης	1994	2004
Δημιουργός	Francis Narin (patent bibliometrics) and the patent-analytics community	Robert Phaal, Clare Farrukh, David Probert (Cambridge T-Plan); Motorola/Corning origins
Τύπος	Document-based technological-intelligence process	Time-based strategic-planning process
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Narin, F. (1994). Patent bibliometrics. Scientometrics, 30(1), 147-155.	Phaal, R., Farrukh, C. J. P., & Probert, D. R. (2004). Technology roadmapping—a planning framework for evolution and revolution. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 71(1-2), 5-26.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Patent analytics, Patent bibliometrics, Patent landscaping	Technology roadmaps, Strategic roadmapping, T-Plan roadmapping
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	Patent analysis, or patanalytics, mines the documents and metadata in patent databases to generate technological intelligence. Because patents are structured, dated, classified, and citation-linked records of inventive activity, analysing patent counts, citations, classification codes, applicants, and text reveals who is innovating where, in which technologies, how fields connect, and how the technological landscape is shifting—evidence that feeds competitive intelligence, R&D strategy, and foresight.	Technology roadmapping is a strategic-planning technique that produces a time-based, multi-layered chart linking markets and business drivers, products and services, and the technologies and resources needed to deliver them. By laying these layers along a common timeline and drawing the links between them, a roadmap aligns research and development with strategy, answering where an organisation wants to go, how it will get there, and which technologies must mature and when.