Resumen

VARGAS, Freddy  y  CASTELLANOS, Oscar. Surveillance as an innovative tool for furthering technological development as applied to the plastic packaging sector. Ing. Investig. [online]. 2005, vol.25, n.2, pp.32-41. ISSN 0120-5609.

The demand for production process efficiency and quality has made it necessary to resort to new tools for development and technological innovation. Surveillance of the environment has thus bee identified as being a priority, paying special attention to technology which (by its changing nature) is a key factor in competitiveness. Surveillance is a routine activity in developed countries’ organisations; however, few suitable studies have been carried out in Colombia and few instruments produced for applying it to existing sectors of the economy. The present article attempts to define a methodology for technological awareness (based on transforming the information contained in databases) by means of constructing technological maps contributing useful knowledge to production processes. This methodology has been applied to the flexible plastic packaging sector. The main trends in this industry’s technological development were identified allowing strategies to be proposed for incorporating these advances and tendencies in national companies and research groups involved in flexible plastic packaging technological development and innovation. Technological mapping’s possibilities as an important instrument for producing technological development in a given sector are then analysed as are their possibilities for being used in other production processes.

Palabras clave : technological surveillance; technological mapping; packages.

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