TRIMESTER
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1st

Decisionmaking Support Systems

L. V. Tavares

The modelling process. Information and decisionmaking. Bayes' theorem and the value of information. The utility function and the analysis of risk and uncertainty. Decision trees and multicriteria analysis. Conflicts and negotiation. Decision support systems for the management of technology.

Innovation and Technology Transfer

M. V. Heitor, J. Elias, M. Bommer

Innovation models, concepts and strategies. Innovation management: technological innovation. Theory and practice of processes of technology transfer and acquisition: products and processes; agents. Analysis and forecasts of technological impact. Transfer, development and commercialization of science and technology. Protection of Intellectual Property. Application to SMEs. Innovation Networks. Technology International Fluxes. International investment and diffusion SMEs. Innovation Networks. Technology International Fluxes. International investment and diffusion technology. Globalization, internationalization and the determinants of the location of R&D. Application to the Portuguese and European context.

Environment, Energy and Development Policies for Economic Growth

J. J. Delgado Domingos, P. Ferrão, J. Ehrenfeld

Energy and Environmental Policy; concepts, principles, developmental trends, main regulatory documents. Analysis methods and instruments, and environmental management instruments; impact analysis; eco-audits, life-cycle assessment, ISO 14 000. Geographical information systems, telematics. Sustainable development economy. Economic, social and environmental sustainability. Urban sustainability. Industrial ecology concepts.

2nd

Corporate Analysis

Rui Baptista

Presents the strategies necessary to manage technology enterprise, and to manage the technmology-based cycle. Develops an understanding of the forces driving competition in industrial markets with emphasis on cycles effecting technology products. Venture capital, the stock market, portfolio analysis. Entrepreneurial efficiency.

Organizational Psycho-Sociology

António Caetano, ISCTE

Organization theory: from classical to ecological and resource dependances approaches. Structural processes in organizations: organization configurations, structural axes, strategies of organizational design. Nature of work and motivation in organizations: theory of contents and processes. Organizative sociological processes: organizational sociology, culture and leadership. Organizational dynamics and development.

Project Management and Evaluation

L. V. Tavares, A. Ferreira

Management by objectives, matrix models. The concept of a project. The modelling of projects: establishing milestones, costs, benefits and risks. Analysis of resources, PERT/CPM. Scheduling. Simulation. Multicriteria analysis and evaluation.

Information systems

Paulo Verissímo, FC

clients and network computers Java. Systems Distributed Services. Programming in SDS, shared memory, parallelism, WWW, publisher-subscriber or info-push, mobile code, mobile agents. Systems reliability: tolerance to failures or disaster avoidance; replication. Programming of reliable systems: diffusion in groups: atomic transactions. Transactional systems of distributed databases: storing, retrieval, concurrence control, coherence. Safety: cryptography: safe servers and firewalls in Internet: digital money and electronical transactions; access control and information systems; safety policies and audits. Lay-out, management and exploitation of big scale information systems.

3rd

Operations Management and Modeling of Industrial Performance

Carlos Bispo

Strategies for production management: MRP, Push-Pull, just-in-time inventory control, Kanban systems, industrial systems. Static and dynamic uses of resources. Modeling tools of industrial performance: Markov chains, waiting lines, Petri nets, simulation of discrete systems, simulation software, analysis of perturbations.

Science and Technology Policy

M. V. Heitor, P. Conceição, Konstadinos G. Goulias

Society, Technology and Innovation. Science and Technology Systems; National Innovation Systems; Historical development and economic perspectives (Schumpeter and Schmookler; Rosenberg). New theories of economic growth (P. Romer, R. Lucas) and international trade (Krugman; Helpfman); lock-in and path-dependance (P. David); the economy of growing returns (B. Arthur); The unmaterial economics. Social interactions. Knowledge Policies. Science, ethics, politics and policies.

Industrial Development Policy

Amado da Silva, Rui Baptista

Industrial sector evolution. Industry taxionomy. Industrial markets and competitiveness factors. Main models of industrial organization and management. Industrial development policies. Strategic planning of R&D activities. Design methodologies of new facilities. Technology transfer and endogenization. Industrial property-patents/tangible assets. Process development: pilot facilities; know-how creation. Clean technologies and intrinsically clean facilities.

1st ,2nd,3rd
(Full Year)

Seminar "Project in Management, Commercialization and Marketing of Technology"

M. V. Heitor, Conceição Vedovello, F. Nascimento

This course is aimed to provide the students with the necessary skills for the realization of engineering projects involving the management, commercialization and marketing of Technology. It runs for the full year (3 trimesters) and includes two main parts. Part 1 is common to 3 M.Sc. Programs (IST; IC2, Austin; ITEMS - Monterrey), using video conferencing and internet based group work. The goal is to develop a Technology Commercialization Project carried out by international groups of students and focused on the development of a project in 3 phases: Technology Assessment (trimester 1); Business Opportunity (trimester 2) and Business Planning (trimester 3). Topics discussed are related to business planning, industrial R&D in S&T Commercialization, Technology Assessment Process, Intelectual Property, Critical Human and Organisational Factors in S&T Commercialization Sucess, Commercialization Strategy (including topics such as Vertical Integration & Horizontal Diversification, Industry Analysis, Strategic Commitment & Pricing), and Financing New Ventures (including topics and such as Technological Entrepreneurism and Entrepreneurs, Initial Venture Funding, Growing and Financing of the New Technology Entreprise). The second part is based on seminars (every two weeks) that provide the students with necessary technical and practical support alowing them to complete sucessfully their project, with emphasis on strategic and technology marketing. Specific topics include: market research and analysis, technology forecasting and benchmarking, strategic planning and marketing planning.

 

 

 

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