Propuesta formativa para abordar la cátedra de gestión tecnológica a partir de la formulación de planes tecnológicos para pymes

Published in: Engineering for a Smarter Planet: Innovation, ITC, and Computational Tools for Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: August 3-5, 2011
Location of Conference: Medellin, Colombia
Authors: Carlos Fernando Vega Barona
Refereed Paper: #186

Abstract

Some Engineering programs’ curricula include the Technological Management subject. It’s studied to students registered in undergraduate’s last two years. The course proposes and develops Technological Management basic concepts and their organizational applications. Its curricular structure initiates with the technological management macro framework (international, national, regional and local macroeconomic and productive context) and finalizes with the micro framework one, emphasized in its utility like company tool to plan, improve, control and decide about the technology.
An Intention with this paper is to share an educational experience which it’s giving a new mean to this subject, as the course had included a project that crosses the subject and is referring a Colombian context. It let a engineering students an meaningful or long-life learning since, as they had selected Cali’s little or medium size companies (or known with PYMES, acronym in Spanish) to developed technological Plans articulated with to the Technology Management global trends, so Development National Plan policies, so Agenda Interna del Valle del Cauca Objects and Strategies Area and so own considerations of the sector or productive chains in which the economic activity of this PYMES is developed. Based on these joints, from the macro framework and from strategic plans of each company, the policies, strategies, objectives and mechanisms are made, that within the support framework constitute to particular technological management in each PYME.