Teaching management of technology in European graduate business schools

Abstract

Based on the experience of the Technology Management Program at the Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France, the author presents the content, methodology, and teaching skills that are currently used in France and Europe to teach management of technology on a large scale. It is pointed out that the formal obligation to organize the innovation process in business management and the revolutionary development in the area of sciences and techniques compel academic systems to include management of technology in all sorts of management and engineering programs. The pedagogy of management of technology must adapt itself to diversified audiences: both graduate and postgraduate business and engineering students. The day-to-day practical knowledge of management of technology in companies has not yet been totally transformed into course contents. The drastic lack of faculty in this area is a major concern for institutions wishing to integrate management of technology into their curricula.<>