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Why Don’t Technology Managers Want Our Knowledge?

Alan L. Porter, Nils C. Newman, Robert J. Watts, Donghua Zhu, Cherie Courseault, Webb Myers, Elmer Yglesias

Abstract: Rich information resources are amenable to mining for competitive technological intelligence. Yet managers presently underutilize this resource. We explore why this is, propose solutions, and forecast a transition to widespread acceptance by 2010.

Keywords: competitive technological intelligence, innovation indicators, bibliometrics, knowledge discovery in databases (KDD), information products, information utilization, textual data mining, technology opportunities analysis

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