“…The past few years have been witnessing an increasing interest of technology-driven companies in the systematic approach of technology intelligence, and, of course, a lot of studies are focusing on its various aspects (Lichtenthaler, 2003(Lichtenthaler, , 2004a(Lichtenthaler, , 2004b(Lichtenthaler, ,2004c(Lichtenthaler, , 2005(Lichtenthaler, , 2006(Lichtenthaler, , 2007Savioz and Blum, 2002, Savioz, 2004Kerr et al, 2006;Mortara et al, 2008Mortara et al, , 2009Arman andFoden, 2010, Yoon andKim, 2012;Park et al, 2013;Takahashi and Nishigaki, 2013;Schuh et al, 2014;Taghva et al, 2014;Russo and Rizzi, 2014). For instance, a search in Google Scholar on "technology intelligence" provides approximately 2,340,000 results (papers and books).…”