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An alternative to ease market barriers related to the accelerated technological growth is to make organizations accompany technological advancement through the dissemination of technology and information. The information survey of a technological nature may occur through technological surveillance. Thus, this study aims to build a theoretical framework on surveillance technology, identifying its application and benefits generated by its use, through a systematic literature. The survey was conducted in the databases Web of Science, Scopus, Science Direct, IEEE Xplore, Scielo and Scholar, using key words in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Through careful analysis of the acquired portfolio was possible to build a consistent benchmark for technological surveillance, concluding that this is a management practice that serves as a structured system that allows coordinate the collection, retrieval, processing, analysis and dissemination of information of technological nature, to guide for organizational strategies.