Confronta i metodi

	Patent Analysis	Technology Roadmapping
Campo	Science Technology Studies	Science Technology Studies
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1994	2004
Ideatore	Francis Narin (patent bibliometrics) and the patent-analytics community	Robert Phaal, Clare Farrukh, David Probert (Cambridge T-Plan); Motorola/Corning origins
Tipo	Document-based technological-intelligence process	Time-based strategic-planning process
Fonte seminale	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.
Alias	Patent analytics, Patent bibliometrics, Patent landscaping	Technology roadmaps, Strategic roadmapping, T-Plan roadmapping
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 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.