The objective of this work is to propose a rapid methodology called Overview Case Analysis (OCA) to analyze in a synthetic and simple form, the tremendous amount of information that is created through the years in a technology transfer project. Using OCA analyst can rapidly detect the project highlights along its critical path of the technology transfer project. At the end of the evaluation process, qualification of the project performance is performed using a coarse scale to measure the technology transfer capacity of the participant organizations. To prove the methodology proposed, we explore the economic and social impact results of some technology transfer projects developed by academic groups of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, by its Spanish acronym). The conclusion is that in order to have a successful TTP, at least three conditions are necessary: (a) the project must be handled by an efficient technology transfer team (T 3); (b) the technology transferred must be mature; and (c) the technology transferred must have economic and social impacts for the final organization or other users inside the receiver country.
It is possible to characterize the different stages of history according the type of technology available. The last fifty years of human history have been referred to as “The Information Age" because of the great advancements and innovations of technology in electronics, computers and communications. The first part of this work presents a method based on the generation and exploitation of a database for the measurement of information technology gradients. The lack of the innovative data in earlier historic times is compensated by the consideration of the transport technologies as IT. The obtained result is a clear exponential growth curve. If the IT is driver of the global change, the notorious changes in the resulting graph can be related to the appearance of the Kondrattief cycles or "K" waves. Modelski [48] pointed out that the evolution of economic processes is closely related to the rate of growth in technological learning. According to the obtained results, the expected rate of change for IT innovation during the first two decades of the XXI Century will surely surpass the rate of change of technological learning. This will probably generate a non-sustainable system unless a change in the human consciousness occurs. Apparently, the sustainable evolution of the world system will depend on the appropriate technological selections, provoking the adjustment of innovation gradients to the rates of technological learning within the next generational cycles.
En este artículo se presenta el caso del Instituto Nacional de Medicina Genómica (INMEGEN) de la Secretaría de Salud del Gobierno Federal Mexicano, en el cual se realiza Investigación y Desarrollo (I&D) en Medicina Genómica. La vinculación del instituto ha sido tradicionalmente académica y de investigación. En el marco de tiempos de cambios internos y externos muy intensos, y considerando el esquema de austeridad económica planteada por el actual Gobierno, se requiere implementar acciones para mejorar su vinculación con el fin de propiciar la generación de nuevos proyectos y de ingresos externos en un esquema de gestión moderno. Para encontrar la propuesta de acciones que pudieran responder a esta necesidad, se propuso el desarrollo de un plan estratégico basado en el establecimiento de redes de innovación tecnológica. La metodología de planeación estratégica utilizada consistió en las siguientes etapas: (a) un diagnóstico para determinar la situación de referencia, (b) planteamiento de las condiciones para realizar la planeación, (c) la elaboración de un plan normativo para llegar a la situación futura esperada y (d) el desarrollo de un plan táctico con acciones de corto, mediano y largo plazo. En conclusión, en el plan propuesto para incentivar, mejorar y sistematizar las acciones de gestión de proyectos y vinculación con la sociedad se encontró que se requiere de dos acciones fundamentales: (a) construir comunidades o redes de innovación con instituciones nacionales e internacionales públicas y privadas y (b) llevar a cabo un mayor acercamiento y contacto directo con el público usando unidades móviles y módulos itinerantes para llevar servicios de medicina genómica directamente a distintas zonas de la Ciudad de México y su área conurbada.
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