TY - JOUR
T1 - Structuring technological information for technology roadmapping
T2 - Data mining approach
AU - Yoon, Byungun
AU - Phaal, Robert
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - Most research on technology roadmapping has focused on its practical applications and the development of methods to enhance its operational process. Thus, despite a demand for well-supported, systematic information, little attention has been paid to how/which information can be utilised in technology roadmapping. Therefore, this paper aims at proposing a methodology to structure technological information in order to facilitate the process. To this end, eight methods are suggested to provide useful information for technology roadmapping: summary, information extraction, clustering, mapping, navigation, linking, indicators and comparison. This research identifies the characteristics of significant data that can potentially be used in roadmapping, and presents an approach to extracting important information from such raw data through various data mining techniques including text mining, multi-dimensional scaling and K-means clustering. In addition, this paper explains how this approach can be applied in each step of roadmapping. The proposed approach is applied to develop a roadmap of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to illustrate the process practically.
AB - Most research on technology roadmapping has focused on its practical applications and the development of methods to enhance its operational process. Thus, despite a demand for well-supported, systematic information, little attention has been paid to how/which information can be utilised in technology roadmapping. Therefore, this paper aims at proposing a methodology to structure technological information in order to facilitate the process. To this end, eight methods are suggested to provide useful information for technology roadmapping: summary, information extraction, clustering, mapping, navigation, linking, indicators and comparison. This research identifies the characteristics of significant data that can potentially be used in roadmapping, and presents an approach to extracting important information from such raw data through various data mining techniques including text mining, multi-dimensional scaling and K-means clustering. In addition, this paper explains how this approach can be applied in each step of roadmapping. The proposed approach is applied to develop a roadmap of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to illustrate the process practically.
KW - data mining
KW - structuring
KW - technological information
KW - technology roadmapping
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887034215&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09537325.2013.832744
DO - 10.1080/09537325.2013.832744
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84887034215
SN - 0953-7325
VL - 25
SP - 1119
EP - 1137
JO - Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
JF - Technology Analysis and Strategic Management
IS - 9
ER -