Identifying and studying the key factors affecting scouting the future high technologies in aerospace design centers

Currently, most successful institutions in the developed countries use the technology scouting as a powerful tool for getting more information about the environment. Therefore, scouting the high technologies can be seen as the innovative factors affecting the product co-creation in the aerospace design center as well. Identification and ranking of the factors effective on the high technologies scouting in the aerospace design center have been addressed in this research. Factors and indicators affecting the technology scouting of products in two internal factors, including two components of the technological intelligence and the strategic intelligence, and one external factor including two components of the organizational intelligence, and the information communication and dissemination, were identified in this regard, considering the literature review and collecting the views of experts in the field of technology in the aerospace design center, through the questionnaire and interviewing tool and using the structural equation modeling by SMART-PLS software. Results of the structural equations indicate that 30 indicators affect the high technologies scouting in the aerospace design center, and the research model was approved by categorizing these indicators in two factors and four components, with the strong fit. Also, the results of the ANP indicate that the technological intelligence is in a higher priority than other components.