(A) study on making technology roadmap attributed to the information of patent

Abstract

Increasing uncertain information of environment, it is becoming harder to make a priority and coordination of technologies. To make a decision, Technology Road Map (TRM) has been an instrument that supports strategic technology management and planning. TRM provides a mechanism and information to help make better technology investment decision. Initial step of TRM is making priorities of technologies. And this step is generally based on the rating of core technology that is evaluated by experts committee. TRM is designed with these priorities. This method is useful and commonly used, but there are limits, it could be biased by each expert’s characteristics. To overcome this problem, we suggest the road-mapping process with using the information of patent. In this method, the number of patents is used to value the importance of each technology. The advantage of this method is expected to take the scores by objective data and excluding private opinion of expert. This paper presents the method of evaluating the scores of each technology as initial step of building up TRM.