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Technology is not just limited to technology companies, it impacts
sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, and security. In the last
few decades, countries, too, have started developing technologies
or integrating technologies into their systems. As a result, all
countries, regardless of size, need to understand the management of
engineering and technology concepts. Digital Transformations
reviews fundamentals and applications through existing and emerging
technologies all around the world. Big data availability and the
emergence of new tools provide opportunities to detect the
emergence of new technologies. Some of the major elements of such
analyses include bibliometrics, patent analysis and social network
analysis. The authors focus on these three tools and demonstrate
their use through applications such as Blockchain, Artificial
Intelligence, Robotics, 3D printing, Wireless Power, Autonomous and
Electric Driving, and Smart Homes. Through the examination of cases
based on emerging technologies, the book provides a spectrum of
these recent applications and serves as a reference for
professionals, researchers and students on fundamentals of
technology utilization tools.
Cybersecurity has become a critical area to focus after recent hack
attacks to key infrastructure and personal systems. This book
reviews the building blocks of cybersecurity technologies and
demonstrates the application of various technology intelligence
methods through big data. Each chapter uses a different mining
method to analyze these technologies through different kinds of
data such as patents, tweets, publications, presentations, and
other sources. It also analyzes cybersecurity methods in sectors
such as manufacturing, energy and healthcare.
This book introduces readers to state-of-the-art cases and tools
for managing innovation in today's rapidly changing business
environment. It provides a wealth of methodological knowhow and
guidance on practical applications, as well as case studies that
reveal various challenges in technology and innovation management.
Written by a mix of academic scholars and practitioners, the
respective chapters present tools and approaches for the early
detection of emerging fields of innovation, as well as relevant
processes and resources. The contributing authors hail from leading
innovative companies including Google, Amazon, Intel, Daimler-Benz,
and NASA.
This volume presents a portfolio of cases and applications on
technology roadmapping (TRM) for products and services. It provides
a brief overview on criteria or metrics used for evaluating the
success level of TRM and then offers six case examples from sectors
such as transportation, smart technologies and household
electronics. A new innovation in this book is a section of detailed
technology roadmap samples that technology managers can apply to
emerging technologies.
This book introduces readers to state-of-the-art cases and tools
for managing innovation in today's rapidly changing business
environment. It provides a wealth of methodological knowhow and
guidance on practical applications, as well as case studies that
reveal various challenges in technology and innovation management.
Written by a mix of academic scholars and practitioners, the
respective chapters present tools and approaches for the early
detection of emerging fields of innovation, as well as relevant
processes and resources. The contributing authors hail from leading
innovative companies including Google, Amazon, Intel, Daimler-Benz,
and NASA.
This book presents emerging technology management approaches and
applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy,
healthcare, transportation and education. Featuring timely topics
such as fracking technology, electric cars, Google's eco-friendly
mobile technology and Amazon Prime Air, the volume's contributions
explore the current management challenges that have resulted from
the development of new technologies, and present tools,
applications and frameworks that can be utilized to overcome these
challenges. Emerging technologies make us rethink how our
infrastructure will look in the future. Solar and wind generation,
for example, have already changed the dynamics of the power sector.
While they have helped to reduce the use of fossil fuels, they have
created management complications due to their intermittent natures.
Meanwhile, information technologies have changed how we manage
healthcare, making it safer and more accessible, but not without
implications for cost and administration. Autonomous cars are
around the corner. On-line education is no longer a myth but still
a largely unfulfilled opportunity. Digitization of car ownership is
achievable thanks to emerging business models leveraging new
communication technologies. The major challenge is how to evaluate
the relative costs and benefits of these technologies. This book
offers insights from both researchers and industry practitioners to
address this challenge and anticipate the impact of new
technologies on infrastructure now and in the future.
This book aims to identify promising future developmental
opportunities and applications for Tech Mining. Specifically, the
enclosed contributions will pursue three converging themes: The
increasing availability of electronic text data resources relating
to Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I). The multiple
methods that are able to treat this data effectively and
incorporate means to tap into human expertise and interests.
Translating those analyses to provide useful intelligence on likely
future developments of particular emerging S&T targets. Tech
Mining can be defined as text analyses of ST&I information
resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI). It
combines bibliometrics and advanced text analytic, drawing on
specialized knowledge pertaining to ST&I. Tech Mining may also
be viewed as a special form of "Big Data" analytics because it
searches on a target emerging technology (or key organization) of
interest in global databases. One then downloads, typically,
thousands of field-structured text records (usually abstracts), and
analyses those for useful CTI. Forecasting Innovation Pathways
(FIP) is a methodology drawing on Tech Mining plus additional steps
to elicit stakeholder and expert knowledge to link recent ST&I
activity to likely future development. A decade ago, we demeaned
Management of Technology (MOT) as somewhat self-satisfied and
ignorant. Most technology managers relied overwhelmingly on casual
human judgment, largely oblivious of the potential of empirical
analyses to inform R&D management and science policy. CTI, Tech
Mining, and FIP are changing that. The accumulation of Tech Mining
research over the past decade offers a rich resource of means to
get at emerging technology developments and organizational networks
to date. Efforts to bridge from those recent histories of
development to project likely FIP, however, prove considerably
harder. One focus of this volume is to extend the repertoire of
information resources; that will enrich FIP. Featuring cases of
novel approaches and applications of Tech Mining and FIP, this
volume will present frontier advances in ST&I text analytics
that will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners,
scholars and policy makers in the fields of R&D planning,
technology management, science policy and innovation strategy.
This book presents emerging technology management approaches and
applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy,
healthcare, transportation and education. Featuring timely topics
such as fracking technology, electric cars, Google's eco-friendly
mobile technology and Amazon Prime Air, the volume's contributions
explore the current management challenges that have resulted from
the development of new technologies, and present tools,
applications and frameworks that can be utilized to overcome these
challenges. Emerging technologies make us rethink how our
infrastructure will look in the future. Solar and wind generation,
for example, have already changed the dynamics of the power sector.
While they have helped to reduce the use of fossil fuels, they have
created management complications due to their intermittent natures.
Meanwhile, information technologies have changed how we manage
healthcare, making it safer and more accessible, but not without
implications for cost and administration. Autonomous cars are
around the corner. On-line education is no longer a myth but still
a largely unfulfilled opportunity. Digitization of car ownership is
achievable thanks to emerging business models leveraging new
communication technologies. The major challenge is how to evaluate
the relative costs and benefits of these technologies. This book
offers insights from both researchers and industry practitioners to
address this challenge and anticipate the impact of new
technologies on infrastructure now and in the future.
Developing new products, services, systems and processes has become
an imperative for any firm expecting to thrive in today's
fast-paced and hyper-competitive environment. This volume
integrates academic and practical insights to present fresh
perspectives on new product development and innovation, showcasing
lessons learned on the technological frontier. The first part
emphasizes decision making. The second part focuses on technology
evaluation, including cost-benefit analysis, material selection and
scenarios. The third part features in-depth case studies to present
innovation management tools, such as customer needs identification,
technology standardization and risk management. The fourth part
highlights important international trends, such as globalization
and outsourcing. Finally the fifth part explores social and
political aspects.
This book aims to identify promising future developmental
opportunities and applications for Tech Mining. Specifically, the
enclosed contributions will pursue three converging themes: The
increasing availability of electronic text data resources relating
to Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I). The multiple
methods that are able to treat this data effectively and
incorporate means to tap into human expertise and interests.
Translating those analyses to provide useful intelligence on likely
future developments of particular emerging S&T targets. Tech
Mining can be defined as text analyses of ST&I information
resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI). It
combines bibliometrics and advanced text analytic, drawing on
specialized knowledge pertaining to ST&I. Tech Mining may also
be viewed as a special form of "Big Data" analytics because it
searches on a target emerging technology (or key organization) of
interest in global databases. One then downloads, typically,
thousands of field-structured text records (usually abstracts), and
analyses those for useful CTI. Forecasting Innovation Pathways
(FIP) is a methodology drawing on Tech Mining plus additional steps
to elicit stakeholder and expert knowledge to link recent ST&I
activity to likely future development. A decade ago, we demeaned
Management of Technology (MOT) as somewhat self-satisfied and
ignorant. Most technology managers relied overwhelmingly on casual
human judgment, largely oblivious of the potential of empirical
analyses to inform R&D management and science policy. CTI, Tech
Mining, and FIP are changing that. The accumulation of Tech Mining
research over the past decade offers a rich resource of means to
get at emerging technology developments and organizational networks
to date. Efforts to bridge from those recent histories of
development to project likely FIP, however, prove considerably
harder. One focus of this volume is to extend the repertoire of
information resources; that will enrich FIP. Featuring cases of
novel approaches and applications of Tech Mining and FIP, this
volume will present frontier advances in ST&I text analytics
that will be of interest to students, researchers, practitioners,
scholars and policy makers in the fields of R&D planning,
technology management, science policy and innovation strategy.
Across industries, firms vary broadly on how they operate with
respect to their Research & Development (R&D) activities.
This volume presents a holistic approach to evaluating the critical
elements of R&D management, including planning, organization,
portfolio management, project management, and knowledge transfer-by
assessing R&D management from different sectors. Featuring
empirical research and in-depth case studies from industries as
diverse as medical imaging, electric vehicles, and cyber security,
the authors identify common features of successful R&D
management, despite fundamental differences, such as company size,
number of employees, industry sector, and the R&D budget. In
particular, they consider the implications for decision making with
respect to resource allocation and investments, such as site
selection, purchasing, and cross-departmental communication.
This volume presents a portfolio of cases and applications on
technology roadmapping (TRM) for products and services. It provides
a brief overview on criteria or metrics used for evaluating the
success level of TRM and then offers six case examples from sectors
such as transportation, smart technologies and household
electronics. A new innovation in this book is a section of detailed
technology roadmap samples that technology managers can apply to
emerging technologies.
Industry 4.0 has altered as well as disrupted the business model of
organizations around the world. The adoption however, has been slow
in the various industries as a clear roadmap for the integration of
the same lacks in project planning. This brief fills this gap as it
examines the development of a Value Roadmap for different
industries using Industry 4.0 as an enabler. Using the automotive,
healthcare and telecommunication industries as case studies, the
authors create the value roadmap using five factors: market
drivers, product features, technology features, enablers and
resources. This framework integrates both technology and market
knowledge to support strategy development, innovation and
operational processes in organizations.
This volume features research and case studies across a variety of
industries to showcase technological innovations and policy
initiatives designed to promote renewable energy and sustainable
economic development. The first section focuses on policies for the
adoption of renewable energy technologies, the second section
covers the evaluation of energy efficiency programs and the final
section provides evaluations of energy technology innovations.
Environmental concerns, energy availability and political pressure
have prompted governments to look for alternative energy resources
that can minimize the undesirable effects for current energy
systems. For example, shifting away from the conventional fuel
resources and increasing the percentage of electricity generated
from renewable resources, such as solar and wind power, is an
opportunity to guarantee lower CO2 emissions and to create better
economic opportunities for citizens in the long run. Including
discussions of such of timely topics and issues as global warming,
bio-fuels and nuclear energy, the editors and contributors to this
book provide a wealth of insights and recommendations for
sustainable energy innovations.
Developing new products, services, systems and processes has become
an imperative for any firm expecting to thrive in today's
fast-paced and hyper-competitive environment. This volume
integrates academic and practical insights to present fresh
perspectives on new product development and innovation, showcasing
lessons learned on the technological frontier. The first part
emphasizes decision making. The second part focuses on technology
evaluation, including cost-benefit analysis, material selection and
scenarios. The third part features in-depth case studies to present
innovation management tools, such as customer needs identification,
technology standardization and risk management. The fourth part
highlights important international trends, such as globalization
and outsourcing. Finally the fifth part explores social and
political aspects.
Selecting the right technology is one of the most critical
decisions in technology driven enterprises, and no selection is
complete without a thorough and informed evaluation. This book
explores the digital transformation movement from three
perspectives: the technological, the personal, and the
organizational.The technical perspective analyses and evaluates new
and up and coming technologies such as IoT and Cloud Technology.
The personal perspective focuses on the consumer's attitude and
experience in the adoption of technologies such as smart homes,
smart watches, drones and wireless devices. And the organizational
perspective focuses on evaluating how technology-driven an
organization and their core activities or products are.This book is
an ideal reference for managers who are responsible for digital
transformation in their organizations and also serves a good
starting point for researchers interested in understanding the
trend. The book contains case studies that may be used by educators
in MBA and Engineering and Technology Management MS programs
covering digital transformation related courses.
This book captures recent research on managing mobile technologies.
It provides a handbook-style reference to professionals in
different industries to help them manage the very latest
technologies that have become a part of every business today.The
book reviews multiple perspectives of the challenges brought by the
introduction of mobile technologies into our lives. The technical
perspective covers major constructs at play; the organizational
perspective reviews international cases; and the personal
perspective investigates the adoption of emerging applications and
their impact.By reviewing multiple perspectives, readers will be
able to adopt a tool to manage the complexities and challenges
brought by the mobile technologies.Related Link(s)
This book is the authoritative reference for technology
roadmapping, written by authors known worldwide for their expertise
on the subject. The book has four parts. The objective of the first
part is to introduce established technology management frameworks,
to highlight the overall ecosystem for the use of technology
roadmaps. This part provides international perspectives as well as
examples from industrial organizations and government agencies. The
second part provides a toolkit presented through applications and
case studies, and provides a review of methods complimentary to
technology roadmapping. The tools discussed include technology
assessment, technology forecasting and technology intelligence
analysis. The objective of this part is to provide professionals
with the tools required to gather the essential data for the
roadmapping project. Part three presents proven frameworks for
technology roadmapping written by those who have developed
practical approaches for various organizations. This part provides
the know-how for developing and executing technology roadmaps. The
final section presents applications demonstrating the use of this
powerful tool, providing regional, government and industrial
applications. The knowledge base includes projects from Europe,
Asia and the Americas.Related Link(s)
The use of bibliometrics for the analysis of technology management
is on the rise in our increasingly technological societies. Many
are using these tools to document or record the rise of various
technologies, making it necessary to take stock of the value and
application of scientometric methods and their measures.Innovation
Discovery shows the current state of play within the field of
management of technology, and discusses how we can use networks to
explore, understand and generate theory around the innovation
process. It looks at the different streams of analysis used to
understand bibliometric data, and presents alternative and novel
ways of applying these techniques.Written as a comprehensive review
of approaches by leading researchers in the field, this book is
suitable for graduate and post-graduate students and researches
looking to expand their knowledge and embark on further
investigations in technology management.
The management of technological innovation is both an art, as well
as a science; the process involves the know-how and technological
core skills to deliver the functionality on the one hand, and (with
an ear on the ground) the ability to identify changes in
technologies to come up with new innovations on the other. This
requires, as a result, frameworks, system tools, and methodologies
to improve the yield in innovations.Managing Technological
Innovation provides a set of tools and case studies for R&D
managers to effectively manage technological innovations - from the
identifying of technological needs to the launch of the product.
The book is divided into five parts. Part 1 addresses the policies
and strategies necessary to provide direction to R&D
organizations in the management of technological innovation. Part 2
focuses on technological assessment; presenting the methods
available to better matching of technologies to strategic
directions, supported with case studies to illustrate the
evaluation methods. Part 3 covers the development and building of
technological portfolios with new products, as well as mitigation
strategies. Part 4 focus on the execution phase of built portfolios
- the development of new products. And finally, Part 5 rounds up
with a study on the factors which impact the diffusion of
technological innovations into the market place.This book is a
practical guide for R&D professions and designers, as well as a
case study reference for graduate students in pursuit of their
project work.
This book addresses the issue of modern medical innovations
management through an inductive approach by looking into cases
before putting forward solutions in terms of strategies and tools.
It provides a model for the designing and implementation of
effective healthcare technology management (HTM) systems in
hospitals and healthcare provider settings, as well as promotes a
new method of analysis of hospital organization for decision-making
regarding technology to show how systematic management using a
strategy that balances bottom-up and top-down driven innovations,
can deliver better medical technological advances.Managing Medical
Technological Innovations is organized in three parts. Part 1
covers innovation strategies, laying the groundwork and concepts in
design thinking. Part 2 follows by presenting the tools available
for implementation. And finally, Part 3 uses the case studies of
pharmaceutical firms in China and hospital medical record
management in Holland to illustrate how these ideas and
methodologies have been applied.This book is suitable for
healthcare administrators, management, and IT personnel involved in
the planning, expansion and maintaining of healthcare technology
management and organisation seeking a reference with most recent
approaches and cases from an international context; researchers
seeking new approaches to apply to emerging medical technologies in
different regions; and graduate students who are either doing their
research or taking introductory as well as advanced courses in
engineering and technology management in different parts of the
world.
Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary
technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume
comprises key articles from both the International Journal of
Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation
and Technology Management, published by World Scientific, and
provides an international, disciplinary approach across its broad
coverage of topics.Relevant for both academics and practitioners,
this volume focuses on key aspects of crowd innovation including
motivations, challenges and benefits of this approach.Related
Link(s)
Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary
technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume
comprises key articles from both the International Journal of
Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation
and Technology Management, published by World Scientific, and
provides an international, disciplinary approach across its broad
coverage of topics.Relevant for both academics and practitioners,
this volume answers how organisations can develop innovative
approaches from a perspective that encompasses technological
advances, changes in the market and individual
entrepreneurs.Related Link(s)
Managing Innovation is a three-part series covering contemporary
technology and innovation management research areas. Each volume
comprises key articles from both the International Journal of
Innovation Management and the International Journal of Innovation
and Technology Management, published by World Scientific, and
provides an international, disciplinary approach across its broad
coverage of topics.Relevant for both academics and practitioners,
this volume looks at the international aspects of innovation with
case studies from China, Germany, India and Russia.Related Link(s)
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