TPAC is prominently
engaged in technology-focused issues relating to economic development,
management, and policy.
TPAC is particularly
strong in:
- Technology Intelligence
-- applying technology monitoring, forecasting, and assessment
methods to emerging technologies.
- R&D--
TPAC people/faculty in this core area include: David
Roessner, Barry
Bozeman, Susan
Cozzens, Alan
Porter, Philip
Shapira,
Gordon Kingsley, etc.
- Analysis of Science
& Technology Policies -- policy review and development,
analysis of options, and assessment of impacts.
- Technology
Opportunities Analysis
-- mining electronic information sources, particularly publication
& patent data abstracts, to generate technology maps, competitive
technological intelligence profiles, and forecasts
- High
Technology Indicators
-- concerned with the analysis and evaluation of industrial modernization
and technology transfer issues and policies.
- Analysis
of Emerging Technolgies Courses (password required)
-- The "Analysis of Emerging Technologies" graduate
courses were developed to provide important management
of technology (MOT) skills. Available on request.
- Industrial
Modernization --Industrial
modernization and technology transfer: Research that assesses the
diffusion of technology, identifies modernization program best practices
and evaluates industrial and regional development impacts. For more
information, see http://www.cherry.gatech.edu/mod
- Research
Evaluation
- Innovation
Management
- Technology
Transfer