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The table and template below are taken from a presentation to the Global Advanced Technology Innovation Consortium Workshop, Zurich, September 26, 2002. (the full presentation:
A Roadmapping Perspective: Science-Driven Technologies)
Here are the topics addressed by a Science and Technology Roadmap. The numbered elements appear in the template below.
Roadmaps and Roadmapping
Technology Futures
Strategy
Science and Technology Roadmaps
Science and Technology Roadmaps bridge technology foresight and technology planning by linking technology applications, potential technology advances and investment plans to realize the advances. Here is one view of the topics that a Science and Technology Roadmap should address and what one might look like.
Elements of a Science and Technology Roadmap
1. Science and Technology Elements
Make up and define the scope of the field.
2. Technology Applications
Where and when the technologies will become innovations (be used) - the "whys."
3. Architecture
How the elements fit together and interact.
4. Challenges
Objectives and performance targets for technology elements - the "whats."
5. Trends and Discontinuities
Performance and growth trends, experience curves, potential disruptions.
6. Technology Element Evolution
The technology roadmap - the "hows."
7. Competitive Technical Position
Competitive approaches to challenges. Competitive technologies.
8. Action Plan
Technology strategy, resources and timing of investments in technologies - the "to-do's."
9. Intellectual Property and Standards
Needs/barriers/actions to gain access, protect, influence.
10. Technology Investment Map
Priorities of technology investments
11. Risk Roadmap
Key indicators of risks to plans. Track for need to change.
The Roadmap Template
A roadmap includes four major sections: Definition and Scope ("know-why"), Research Direction ("know-what"), the Technology Roadmap ("know-how"), and a Summary and Action Plan ("to-do"). The sections are linked by application drivers, technology challenges, and investment priorities. A roadmap may be developed from applications and needs (application "pull") or from technology advances (technology "push").
© 2004 - 2007 The Albright Strategy Group, LLC