Defining a Collaborative Framework for Roadmapping Activities

Today, more than ever, it urges to increase effort for monitoring and investigating changes in environment, particularly in relation to events in the social, economic, political and ecological landscapes as well as new technologies. Roadmapping activities are based on techniques and practices to analyse the “state” of a system and to identify evolution of emerging drivers. Roadmapping methodologies can support in understanding the impact of drivers on the competitive position of system under consideration and on the advantage of answering to these drivers. This chapter proposes a collaborative framework, designing it with the aim to involve several stakeholders with an iterative approach to consult and validate the results collected from literature and state-of-the-art and to share knowledge in a context where system competitiveness is considered as a precondition for individual benefit. Overall, this work contributes to improve the effectiveness of strategic roadmapping and to increase its value added to the planning process of clusters and in general of large groups of interest, while providing helpful insight to public organizations that promote the competitiveness of related sector under consideration.