Authors: Nelson Ebecken, Francisco Moreira
The objective of this paper is to present the methodology adopted by Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company, in e-science collaborative projects to generate ideas of new opportunities obtained by technology convergence for an energy company that searches solutions for the future. The effort is based on contributions of a group of 50 senior scientists from top 5 research institutes working iteratively via the Web and text mining activities to look for new technologies.