Learn in the textbookManagement of Technology (MOT), Intellectual Property Strategy, and the Two Basic Types of Innovation
DefinitionA technology portfolio (技術ポートフォリオ) is an analysis method that plots a company's technologies on a chart along several evaluation axes to decide which ones should receive resources first.
ExplanationBased on the placement, the company picks technologies to invest in heavily and ones to scale back or drop. It applies to technologies the same idea as PPM, which lays out products and businesses to plan resource allocation.
AnalogyIt is like an investor sorting stocks by growth prospects and stability to decide where to concentrate money.
Memory hookA portfolio originally meant a document case or a collection of works. Picture gathering all your technologies into one binder to compare them.