Technology surveillance and life cycle: application in products generated from coffee

Abstract

This article reports the results of an exercise of technological surveillance and life cycle analysis of a technology for the Agroindustrial sector, with the purpose of determining the state of the technology within its life cycle in order to reduce the uncertainty in the decisions making with a point of reference or inflection point. Search equations were constructed for articles and patents that were used in specialized databases. The technology selected was coffee (Agroindustrial utilization, active ingredients and co-products generated from coffee). All of the above was the input to apply the models that offer the specialized software for curves in Sigmaplot S with the objective of finding the inflection points, which are the ones that indicate the moment in phase where the technology is. The model with the best fit is selected according to the established statistical parameters: value t: greater than 2 and less than -2; P-value: less than 0.005; Durbin Watson: between 1.8 and 2.2; Adjusted R2: that store to 1. In conclusion the inflection point was generated above the year 2023 for technology in relation to articles and for patents its point between 2008 and 2013. Finally, he performed the analysis of the technology.