Abstract
In spite of the growing importance of science and technology policy, it is not easy to establish a specific policy in this field, because it lacks a basic tool, or a counterpart of the input-output table for planning industrial policy. The author proposes exploitation of scientific/technical literature databases, including the JOIS files, INSPEC and COMPENDEX, for this purpose, particularly for preparation of an inter-technology relations table based on appropriate classification categories and index terms extracted from those databases. Such a table will be useful for identifying basic trends in R&D, paradigms in emerging fields in science or technology, dependence of a certain field on others, and characteristics of R&D fundamentals in each country.
