NUEVA GUÍA METODOLÓGICA DE ROADMAPPING PARA PROYECTOS DE INNOVACIÓN

Abstract

Roadmaps and their methodology (TRM, Technology roadmapping) are planning tools for medium-term and long-term projects which are useful to any business or corporation. Roadmaps cover many aspects that must be taken into account in a company's innovation forecasting and its development over time. The difference between a roadmap and a Gantt or Pert planning diagram is that the Roadmap is much more than a distribution of tasks or actions to be implemented over a period of time, the realization and subsequent implementation of a roadmap includes (or should include) a huge amount of internal and external information about the organization through which its future state should be defined as precisely as possible. This article proposes a new roadmapping methodology for innovation projects, its novel aspects being: focusing on different concepts considered from two broad points of view, the internal ("inside") and external ("outside") ones; emphasizing the inclusion in the study of the own and others’ industrial property; and the construction of the Roadmap through a logical process in which tactics and strategy are involved. Keywords: roadmaps; innovation projects; TRM