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	Technology Roadmapping	Patent Analysis
Field	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2004	1994
Originator	Robert Phaal, Clare Farrukh, David Probert (Cambridge T-Plan); Motorola/Corning origins	Francis Narin (patent bibliometrics) and the patent-analytics community
Type	Time-based strategic-planning process	Document-based technological-intelligence process
Seminal source	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.	Narin, F. (1994). Patent bibliometrics. Scientometrics, 30(1), 147-155.
Aliases	Technology roadmaps, Strategic roadmapping, T-Plan roadmapping	Patent analytics, Patent bibliometrics, Patent landscaping
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Summary	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.	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.