Article history: Received 20 May 2013 Received in revised form 7 January 2014 Accepted 9 February 2014 Available online 28 February 2014 Investing in R&D for a product employing new technologies is a challenging issue for companies and governments alike, especially at the critical juncture of deciding the degree of resource allocation, if any. Decision-makers generally rely either on historical...

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Introduction This special issue of Technological Forecasting and Social Change addresses the topic of “tech mining.” Tech mining strives to inform science, technology and innovation (“ST&I”) management by applying text mining to exploit searches of electronic science and technology databases [1]. It is richly informed by work in fields such as information retrieval, scientometrics and content a...

Beginning the 21st century, the FPD (Flat Panel Display) market has been growing massively. It is difficult for the market to establish pricing strategies according to the development of technology and the change of market due to technological variances and diverse sizes of products such as the LCD, PDP, Braun tube, and projection television (TV) in the FPD market. The preexisting methods for p...

Empirical technology forecasting (TF) is not well utilized in technology management. Three factors could enhance managerial utilization: capability to exploit huge volumes of available information, ways to do so very quickly, and informative representations that help manage emerging technologies. This paper reports on efforts to address these three factors via partially automated processes to g...

The great potential of lipases is known since 1930 when the work of J. B. S. Haldane was published. After eighty-five years of studies and developments, are lipases still important biocatalysts? For answering this question the present work investigated the technological development of four important industrial sectors where lipases are applied: production of detergent formulations; organic synt...