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ABSTRACT
Implementing a scientific watch consists in acquiring tools which facilitate access to scientific and technical information and also allow the sharing-out and exploitation of data. This activity has currently become crucial and essential for all companies, not only regarding market competitiveness but also for all innovation process performances. The process firstly consists in targeting the watch, i.e. to define the themes and subjects at which the said watch is aimed. All the relevant information sources are then identified. Following this, the question of information accumulation analysis arises.
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Gilles BALMISSE: Associate Director of KnowledgeConsult, a management and technology consulting firm - This edition is an update of Henri DOU's article entitled Veille technologique – Methodology and information gathering, published in 2004.
INTRODUCTION
Being able to access scientific and technical information simply and efficiently, then sharing and exploiting it, has become crucial for companies wishing to remain competitive in their markets.
Scientific and technical intelligence, and more generally scientific and technical information, therefore occupy a prominent place in companies' R&D activities, becoming increasingly essential to the performance of their innovation process.
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Bibliography
Websites
• BUPMC – Pierre and Marie Curie University Library http://www.jubil.upmc.fr
• IST Committee – Consult 2008 reports http://media.education.gouv.fr
Events
• i-expo: European trade show for information and knowledge professionals. Held annually in Paris http://www.i-expo.net
• VSST symposium: a symposium devoted to Strategic Scientific and Technological Watch, and elaborate information systems, as well as bibliometrics. http://www.atlas.irit.fr
...Standards and norms
- AFNOR Monitoring services – Watch services and services to set up a watch system - XP X50-053 - 04-98
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