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    Technics and Future

    Technics and Future

    Companies and governments have to decide upon technological strategies, i.e. which products are to be developed and which processes and infrastructures are required for the future. Several tools to consider technological strategies are dealt with in this course.

    Subjects:
    Technology
    Keywords:
    Sustainable development Technological forecasting Technological innovations -- Forecasting Technological innovations -- Management
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
  • Courseware 
    ESD.10 Introduction to Technology and Policy

    ESD.10 Introduction to Technology and Policy

    This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, implementation and evaluation of policy outcomes using frameworks including economics and markets, law, and business and management. Methods include cost/benefit analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and system dynamics. Exercises include developing skills to work on the interface between technology and societal issues; simulation exercises; case studies; and group projects that illustrate issues involving multiple stakeholders with different value structures, high levels of uncertainty, multiple levels of complexity; and value trade-offs that are characteristic of engineering systems. Emphasis on negotiation, team building and group dynamics, and management of multiple actors and leadership.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Policy sciences -- Economic aspects Political planning -- Economic aspects
    Resource Type:
    Courseware
     
    OER