Technology Scouting for Competitive Advantage

Improve Innovation Capacity and Drive Competitive Advantage

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Udemy

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English

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Entrepreneurship

What you will learn

Learn to avoid the common pitfalls and Increase the Potential and Rate for Meaningful Innovation

Learn how to look outside and where to look to find the innovation landscape and IP portfolios

Learn how Technology Scouting is used for potential acquisition or M&A

Know how to identify new and emerging technologies

Learn to leverage technology scouting as a tool to improve innovation capacity

Know how to use Strategic Technology Management for business decisioning

Learn how to leverage Technology Scouting for competitive advantage

Know how to use technology scouting for formulating technology roadmap, product roadmap

Gain insights when and how to do early stage acquisitions

Know drivers of Technology Roadmaps

Make build vs buy decisions

Understand the role of competitive becnhmarking and how to leverage to drive business opportunities

Learn to influence Innovation and Technology Strategy

Why take this course?

This course, Technology scouting for Competitive Advantage delivers the essentials of making informed decisions for strategic value positioning, technology roadmapping. Technology scouting is an element of strategic technology management to identify emerging technology trends, players in the competitive landscape. Learn to how to make informed decisions for "build" vs "buy", how Technology scouting serves as early warning system for companies on emerging and disruptive technologies and their impact, how to align the long-term innovative external technologies and internal requirements for strategic purposes and in the process help quickly create technology and product roadmaps.

All too often, the capacities of R&D departments are too small to guarantee the necessary degree of innovation for a new product initiation in view of shortened technology and innovation cycles. Learn how technology scouting relieves the burden on the internal R&D department. Also, learn to identify New Opportunities and Competitive Advantage.