Accelerated technical intelligence method for Turkish defence industry developmet: An innovative method; TRIZ

'Industrial espionage' activities that emerged after the Industrial Revolution have referred many states to take precaution against dangers that occur in enemy elements and have been effective in countering the shortcomings that will occur in war times. Both in short term to increase the deterrent strength of our national defense as well as in the long term in order to have a strong national defense technology, every way should be tried to become a global power. At this point, starting from recent period of war history that has changed the nature of the world of politics, it is required to investigate the technology intelligence operations conducted in the states by using example case analysis and to determine the importance level of technology intelligence activities among the nationalization strategies for defense technology of Turkey. As part of the thesis, literature research was made within the framework of technology transfer, technology intelligence and the concepts of patent breaking techniques. According to the data obtained in accordance with the literature; future studies constitute a basis for technology management and the activities to set a national technology strategy. Methods that mainly used in future studies appears on the topics of technology intelligence, technology assessment, technology forecasting and technology prediction. In this context, accelerated technology strategies for the Turkish defense industry were investigated among alternative forms of intelligence technology foresight activities by examining technology intelligence methods. This thesis presents a novel technical intelligence method of patent mapping for visualising conflicts between patent claims that incorporates the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ). Implemantation of "TRIZ: innovative invention technique" (the theory of inventive problem solving" in English acronym TIPS) as a method of accelerated technology intelligence to identify and to evaluate the certain technologies that could affect the current and future activities of the defense industry firms is the main objective of our study. Between technology intelligence activities, providing information over patents, that were disclosed, has been increasing its importance across every day. The required technical data can be obtained by accessing publicly accessible internet database of patents. Patents are an important source of information for industrial research and product development because of easy accessibility and the inherent innovativeness. To know how to use this information resource in innovative/innovation designs is much more important. Patent intelligence; the transformation of content found in multiple patents into technical, business, and legal insight, is considered a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage in technologically competitive business environments. Patents provide a wealth of information about design concepts, their physical realization, and their relationship to prior designs in the form of citations. Patent databases which can be easily accessible from the open source stand out among many different methods of technology intelligence. The methodology of breaking patents and the method utilised to exceed the scope of the patent, that used in the context of thesis work, are engineering techniques that represents the rearrangement of claims which allows to create new versions of a legal and technical system. In this study, possible innovation paths to exceed the scope of the patent were discussed by examining the tools of "TRIZ: the theory of innovative problem solving". And finally, patents taken on unmanned aerial vehicles which will have strategic importance for the defense industry in the future have been examined and a design of exceeding the scope of a selected patent is included in dissertation. In the thesis, primarily one was selected by examining patents were approved in the field of defense industry and then TRIZ method to produce innovation over existing patents is used. Selected dependent and independent patent claims have been analyzed in detail. Data required for functional analysis examining the relationship between sub-functions with the patent's main functions have been created. Subsequently patent function graph was revealed. After this step we used comprising a plurality of TRIZ method of ARIZ algorithm to obtain innovative proposals. Patents have been made taking into account the physical condition of the evaluation on each of the innovative proposals. An innovative form of patents on existing patents as a result of assessment work has been developed in this context. This thesis analyzed accelerated technical intelligence for Turkish defence industry developmet. Technology intelligence tools have come to be regarded as vital components in planning for technology development and formulating technology strategies.