Herramienta informática para vigilancia tecnológica -VIGTECH-.

The paper presents a software tool for supporting techniology monitoring tasks. The tools allows to find cognitive and social relationships in a set of documents, which have been extracted from a reference database such as SCOPUS. Specifically, the tool the following activities: gathering of information from scientific documents, metadata extraction, descriptive statistics calculation, social network analysis, keyword network análisis and visualization. the paper describes the conceptual bases that supported the development of the the tool, and describes its architecture and functionality.