- Docente: Giancarlo Barbiroli
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SECS-P/13
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Accounting (cod. 0896)
Course contents
Aims,method and content of the course.Phases,paths and forms or
technology and its dynamics.Models of innovation forms.Operating
and dissipative properties of technologies.Technologies as
production function and as system of variables.The concept of
replaceability.Life cycle of technologies and of products,and their
origin.Appropriate technologies.
Times,forms,barriers and costs of technology transfer.Indicators of
the innovative intensity.Ways to get,select and elaborate the
information for innovation.Flexible management systems,scope
economies and trade-off between flexibility and
productivity.Products/process matrix.Indicators of global
performance,at company level.
Quality and Total Quality Management Systems.The relationship
quality/productivity.
Effects of technologies on non-renewable and renewable
resources,industrial productions,economic and ecologic systems.The
feasibility studies.The compatibility and complementarity among
production activities at local level.
The new technological trends.
Readings/Bibliography
Giancarlo Barbiroli,Strategie di produzione e dinamica
tecnologica.Bulzoni Editore,Roma,1995.
Office hours
See the website of Giancarlo Barbiroli