Demand and Price Evolution Forecasting as Tools for Facilitating the RoadMapping Process of the Photonic Component Industry

The photonic component industry is a highly innovative industry with a large value chain. In order to ensure the growth of the industry much effort must be devoted to road mapping activities. In such activities demand and price evolution forecasting tools can prove quite useful in order to help in the roadmap refinement and update process. This paper attempts to provide useful guidelines in roadmapping of optical components and considers two models based on diffusion theory and the extended learning curve for demand and price evolution forecasting.

Authors:

• T. Kamalakis
• I. Neokosmidis
• D. Varoutas
• T. Sphicopoulos

Keywords:

• Roadmapping
• Photonic Components
• Forecasting
• Diffusion Theory.

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