Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology: Technical Intelligence for Business

by W. Bradford Ashton and Richard A. Klavans

Recommended reading for the ICI workshop ICI-27

Book Description
Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology tells readers how to develop, manage, and use their own technical intelligence programs to gain the competitive advantage.

The book shows readers how to anticipate technology, focus R&D programs, develop strategies, monitor competitors, address threats, and identify opportunities. Major sections include: * understanding the basic concepts of technical intelligence * managing technical intelligence organizations in business * producing technical intelligence * applying results to obtain value * looking ahead - contemporary technical intelligence issues.

Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology can show those just implementing a technical intelligence program how to get started, as well as bring experienced practitioners up to date on the latest techniques and developments.

It describes competitive technical intelligence practices and methods used today by leading-edge companies. Important hands-on information and examples from practicing authors are included throughout the book.

Chapters on managing technical intelligence organizations help readers understand how to establish and operate their own intelligence units. Information on gathering intelligence illustrates how key information sources are used to track and evaluate developments in science and technology. Additional chapters on computer support systems and databases show how to find new technologies rapidly anywhere in the world.

Keeping Abreast of Science and Technology is the first book to bring together information from practicing professionals in the emerging field of competitive technical intelligence for business.

• Hardcover: 560 pages
• Publisher: Battelle Press (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1574770187
• ISBN-13: 978-1574770186