18634 - Technologies Analysis and Evaluation

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • 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