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Título del libro: Towards Sustainable Technologies And Innovation - Proceedings Of The 27th Annual Conference Of The International Association For Management Of Technology, Iamot 2018
Título del capítulo: Technology foresight at a University Research Center in Mexico: Design and first results

Autores UNAM:
EUGENIO MARIO LOPEZ Y ORTEGA;
Autores externos:

Idioma:
Inglés
Año de publicación:
2018
Palabras clave:

Industrial management; Knowledge management; Strategic planning; Corporate foresight; Me-xico; Research and development; Strategic decisions; Structural reliability; Technology foresight; University research; University research and development; Engineering research


Resumen:

Technology and corporate foresight has gained recognition as an instrument to aid the identification, construction and support of technological strategic decisions in organizations. Research and Development Centers (RDC)-a part of the National System of Science Technology and Innovation (SNCTI) in Mexico-could benefit from the results of a foresight process. One of the aims of technology foresight is to "identify areas of strategic research" (Martin, 1995). The main purpose of this paper is to present the progress and preliminary results of the application of a technology foresight process in a university research and development center in Mexico. The technology foresight process was designed based on a literature review-foresight, strategic planning and knowledge management- and is being applied in the Engineering Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIUNAM), one of the main research centers in the country. A systems thinking approach is being used in order to identify the mayor stakeholders involved in the strategic planning of the IIUNAM. Research topics of interest (TI) for the IIUNAM were identified to guide the foresight process. For each TI selected, specific research topic (ST) were stablished which will be used to guide the scenario analysis in a next stage of the work. The methodology applied and first results of the technology foresight process is shown. The TI analysed is called: Natural Hazards in Civil Engineering and the ST corresponds to Structural Reliability. © 2018 Towards Sustainable Technologies and Innovation - Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT 2018. All rights reserved.


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