Abstract
As an increasing efficiency of R&D is emergently sought today, Technology Roadmapping is becoming more significant as one of the best methodologies for R&D management. Described herein this report based on literature research and interview, is the definition, roles, and values of Technology Roadmapping. Also this report typifies them into three different groups according to the responsible entity; Enterprise, Industry, and Government (including Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Strategic Technology Roadmap), and general schema along with formulating process of roadmaps on each case are discussed. Based on these cases, two types of modeling arc described from the perspective of collaboration between government, industry and academia: one is DTI (UK) & DOE (USA) model, and the other one is METI (JAPAN) model.
