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C. topic contributing to define a picture of the general frame for the development of
the technology 0.50
D. topic referring to competing technologies 0.25
Technology Watch 2 module contains information originating from French Key
Technologies study (under permission). This information provides - in addition to
France’s position - the relative position of Europe as related to the technology taken
into account. The software has been designed to be able to endorse additional worldwide prospective studies’ results.
The computation of the TW2 indicator uses the following formula:
TW 2 Ζ
1
n
n
i Ζ1
ξ(0.3Si Η 0.3I i Η 0.2Ci Η 0.2M i ).wi ζ
where i refers to the topic found in the prospective study ( n is the total number of
topic found related to a particular technology) and wi is the weight given to the
matching of the topic with the technology being evaluated depending on their degree
of correlation.
7.5.2 User’s guide
If you select this option, the following window will then appear:
Please select the appropriate sector/area found in the top window (in the figure
"Health" was selected), which corresponds to the technology/project under
evaluation, and then click on the more specific topic of the list that will appear to
evaluate your technology; then click on the evaluation button.
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