S&T-Function-Application Cross-charting: An approach to visualize the bridges across the gap between R&D and applications

Introduction The new “S&T-Function-Application Cross-charting” method offers perspective on how specialized the innovation paths ahead might be. It appears effective at associating novel technology-enabled capabilities to gain functional advantages, and to link those functions to potential applications. Those applications can be associated with target users and most promising markets. This research uses text-mining and NLP techniques and suggests a procedure for transforming the extracted structures into a base source for Cross-charting by combining qualitative approaches.