InSciTe Advanced: Service for Technology Opportunity Discovery

This paper describes InSciTe Advanced, which is a technology opportunity discovery (TOD) service to support decision-making on R&D planning. It models TOD based on the life cycle of technologies, analyzes and visualizes associate relations between technologies and agents. Concretely it provides following five major services: (a) trends and predictions, (b) technology levels, (c) relationship paths, (d) roadmaps, and (e) competitors and collaborators. These services were implemented by combining Semantic Web technologies with text mining technologies and applying to technological literature.