Open AccessProspecting the Impact of New Business based on Project Keywords
Author(s) -
Edward David Moreno,
María Elena León Olave,
Paulo Afonso
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2411-2933
DOI - 10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss4.2269
Subject(s) - index (typography) , identification (biology) , computer science , the internet , open access journal , value (mathematics) , term (time) , data science , world wide web , scopus , political science , botany , physics , medline , quantum mechanics , machine learning , law , biology
In this paper we present and use the ITW-Index – this name was given in reference to the term Technology Watch, which is a technique of observation, analysis and identification of possible opportunities and threats, linked to the method of technological forecasting called Monitoring and Intelligence Systems. The purpose of TW-Index is to provide the user the capacity of monitoring and identifying whether certain terms which are used for defining a technology or research are currently been searched and used in the Internet. For this, we used as a basis the Google Trends. So, in this paper we present three contributions: (i) the concept of the TW-index, (ii) options for evaluating and getting a value for the TW-index applied in two different examples, and (iii) we measure and explain the means of TW-index when it is applied in two ideas for creating new business into the IdeaLAB program at University of Minho, Portugal.