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Using Competitive Technology Intelligence to Determine Potato Peel Upcycling Trends and Applications
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2022-11-20) Fox Miranda, Itzel; TEJADA ORTIGOZA, VIRIDIANA ALEJANDRA; 420889; Rodríguez Salvador, Marisela; emipsanchez; Tejada Ortigoza, Viridiana Alejandra; Hernández Brenes, Carmen; School of Engineering and Sciences; Campus Monterrey
In the potato processing industry, specifically in potato chip manufacturing, potato peel is one of the main byproducts. Potato peel needs to be treated and managed properly to prevent environmental damage and promote economic growth through its use by innovating traditional processes, technologies, and products. In this context, Competitive Technology Intelligence (CTI) is a tool that provides relevant knowledge to support decision-making and strategic planning, that can create value in potato peel processing. For this reason, this thesis applied a CTI methodology using scientometric, patentometric, and product market analysis to reveal scientific and technological developments in potato peel byproduct. A Global Query was developed by an iterative process with expert feedback to retrieve scientific documents and published patents from renowned databases, published from January 1st, 2018, to April 30th, 2023. After deduplication and a manual verification process, 393 scientific publications and 82 published patents were collected. The publications were manually classified based on the publication focus in three main categories: Application, Process, and Economic Analysis. The growth kinetics, top journals and countries, and number of citations were determined. Market information was gathered from renowned databases and customer needs, industry development, and potato peel products on the market were identified. Potato peel identified applications were as a substrate, adsorbent, biopolymer, antioxidant, agriculture component, animal and insect feed, and functional ingredient. The main processing techniques were bioactive compounds and biopolymers extraction and pretreatment. The most prolific countries from scientific documents were India, Egypt, and China, and the intellectual property (IP) offices with the most published patents were China National Intellectual Property Administration, World Intellectual Property Organization, and Intellectual Property India. Potato peel research publication rate was affected by global COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, consumers desire to lower their environmental impact and need products that are plastic-free, benefit their health, and help them to adapt to harsh weather conditions. In addition, there is a need to promote the term upcycle since many consumers are not familiarized with it, and the ones who do relate it with reducing waste.
4d printing research trends and applications in the medical field: a scientometric analysis
(Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, 2022-07-28) Padilla Aguirre, Karen Marcela; RODRIGUEZ SALVADOR, MARISELA; 20562; Rodríguez Salvador, Marisela; emijzarate, emipsanchez; Urbina Coronado, Pedro Daniel; Elizondo Noriega, Armando; Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias; Campus Monterrey
Innovation plays a key role on a company’s either success or failure. But innovation is not just the creating or adopting new technologies; it is also directly connected with a solid strategic planning. Competitive technology intelligence is based on the systematic and ethical process of gathering, analyzing and transforming information into actionable knowledge. It aims to support decision making and strategic planning, because the knowledge produced by this methodology constitutes an early warning for research, development and innovation [19]. Three-dimensional (3D) printing is a technique of additive manufacturing that has revolutionized engineering, product design and manufacturing, as it allows the rapid conversion of digital 3D model information into physical static objects [45]. However, in the last few years a new possibility has been introduced to add ’time’ as a new dimension to create 4D printing. The medical field keeps changing and progressing at a high speed with new technologies emerging every day. 4D printing on the medical field is an area where it is necessary to provide decision makers with an overview of technological knowledge that helps them generate innovation opportunities. On this thesis, a Competitive technology intelligence approach was executed to identify trends in 4D printing technologies applied to the medical field, in order to provide relevant information through a technological landscape to support decision makers to uncover innovation opportunities. The results of the analysis revealed that most of the research developed is on the materials category, which relates completely to the fact that smart materials are the key difference between 3D and 4D printing. Most of the researches focus on shape memory polymers, hydrogels and liquid crystal elastomers. On the processes category researched is focused on the physical configuration of the printing model, printing parameters and adapting machines to modify the printing configurations. As for the applications, three main subcategories were identified, hollow tubes/stents, tissue engineering and drug delivery. According to the growth kinetics it is a field that although is fairly new, keeps growing and will keep gaining attention.

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