Title:	LIMITS OF ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY WATCH: APPLICATION OF A PRACTICAL CASE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Author(s):	Victor Cavaller
ISBN:	978-972-8924-35-5
Editors:	Piet Kommers (series editors: Piet Kommers, Pedro Isaías and Nian-Shing Chen)
Year:	2007
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Technology watch, indicator system, scientometrics, patent bibliometrics, user interface software tools, human-computer interaction, biotechnology.
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	203
Last Page:	211
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	Computing has made it possible to automate analytical monitoring procedures in general, and, more specifically, technology watch. The availability of indexed data bases of scientific articles and patents has facilitated the analysis of scientific output and innovation. Nevertheless, relational indicators, applied in scientometrics and in patent bibliometrics, which report on contents, are clearly insufficient. The significance and the relationship between the meaning of the terms involve concepts. And in this regard, analytical methodology is still very incipient, and the progress of technology watch, despite the possibilities of analytical automation, is conditioned to the progress of indicators on contents. In the framework of human-computer interaction, it is particularly interesting to establish the limits of the analytical instruments of technology watch. This article will address, by way of introduction, current ideas in the concept of technology watch, the functions and the analytical methods and techniques used. The aim is to show the limits of the use of technology watch at present, the applicability of the human factor and expertise as an analytical resource by means of a case study in biotechnology of interest for the wine-making, food and pharmaceutical sectors. The methodology, consisting in the sequential application of indicators, allows us to analyze the degree of significance of results.
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