Abstract

JIMENEZ HERNANDEZ, Claudia Nelcy  and  CASTELLANOS DOMINGUEZ, Óscar Fernando. Perspectives and considerations concerning biological support for the development of technological management. Innovar [online]. 2008, vol.18, n.32, pp.47-64. ISSN 0121-5051.

Management's need to specialise and orientate some of its functions towards research and development has facilitated more pertinent management of technology and has contributed towards technological management becoming consolidated as a differentiated field of knowledge (without denying that it must continue to evolve). This investigation is aimed at contributing towards evaluating the contribution of biological elements and concepts to this field of management, considering their high degree of interaction with other disciplines, as well as their significance and relevance for organisational management. Scienciometric techniques were thus used on information gleaned from databases from articles and memoirs from academic events, finding that advances have mainly been presented in developed countries, being very scarce in terms of the Latin-American context. Such advances have been orientated towards managing production and supporting current development of technological management and knowledge management. Perspectives concerning the development of the relationship between biosciences and technological management were identified, focusing on three aspects: learning based on the contribution of a systemic vision, using analogies and metaphors and developing intelligence processes. Some considerations are raised about the role of such relationship within the context of emerging Latin-American economies.

Keywords : technological management; biological science; biological metaphor; scienciometry.

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