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Methods and Tools Applied in Strategic Technology Planning

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The relationship between strategic technology planning and the overall business strategy has been one of the growing fields that attract much interest both from academic and industry points of view. The increasingly important role that technology plays in today’s business success is well established. The ability to create, modify and maintain the alignment of technology planning to the overall business strategy—as market/business conditions change, new opportunities arise, and new capabilities are developed—can define the success or failure in the market. An increasing number of studies have been carried out over the years, contributing to the development of strategic technology planning literature. However, there has been no effort made to present an overview of the methodologies and tools that have been cited in technology planning literature. This chapter surveys technology plan development using literature review and classification of articles from 1970–2010 with keyword index in order to explore how technology planning methodologies and applications has developed in this period. The main content of the chapter is related to the works published in leading international journals that involve certain research methodologies or techniques.

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Suharto, Y., Daim, T. (2013). Methods and Tools Applied in Strategic Technology Planning. In: Daim, T., Oliver, T., Kim, J. (eds) Research and Technology Management in the Electricity Industry. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5097-8_1

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