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	Patent Analysis	Technology Foresight
Campo	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1994	1995
Ideatore	Francis Narin (patent bibliometrics) and the patent-analytics community	Ben R. Martin, Irene Miles, and the UK/Japanese foresight programmes
Tipo	Document-based technological-intelligence process	Participatory future-oriented strategic process
Fonte seminale	Narin, F. (1994). Patent bibliometrics. Scientometrics, 30(1), 147-155.	Martin, B. R. (1995). Foresight in science and technology. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 7(2), 139-168.
Alias	Patent analytics, Patent bibliometrics, Patent landscaping	Foresight studies, Strategic technology forecasting, Future-oriented technology analysis
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	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 foresight is a systematic, participatory process of looking into the longer-term future of science, technology, the economy, and society in order to identify the areas of strategic research and the emerging generic technologies likely to yield the greatest economic and social benefits. Rather than predicting a single future, it brings experts and stakeholders together to explore plausible futures, build shared visions, and translate them into present-day priorities and action.