System and method for assessing an organization's innovation strategy against potential or future industry scenarios, competitive scenarios, and technology scenarios

摘要

This invention defines a method and system for benchmarking an entity's innovation or research and development strategy (represented by a collection of documents) against a collection of documents or corpus that defines the future direction of an industry sector; a future technology or research and development roadmap; or the innovation strategy or research and development strategy of another entity; where an entity could be a corporation, a government, a country, an industry sector, a competitor, or a projected technology future scenario.;This invention identifies and uses implicit technology concepts to benchmark the innovation strategy or research and development strategy of one entity to a future technology roadmap or to the innovation strategy of another entity. These implicit technology concepts are used to build relationship data tables that define the links between entities, identify the overlaps and gaps between entities, and benchmark multiple entities.