Technological intelligence for strategic decision-making.

Technological intelligence can be defined as firms’ ability to decode their scientific and technological environment when making strategic decisions. Its importance may seem obvious yet the concept has rarely been deployed in Europe, mainly because of the complications involved in implementing it “profitably”. The present paper revisits the main reasons for integrating the concept into habitual corporate strategy tools, highlighting the five leading innovation management arguments that make this case. It follows an action research approach centred on two concrete case studies that illustrate and above all question how this kind of organisational capability might be applied in firms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]