The Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division encourages multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue to advance knowledge on innovation and technological change, including their psychological, behavioral, operational, managerial, organizational, strategic, economic and societal antecedents and implications. TIM scholars explore these issues in an increasingly digital, interconnected, and sustainability-oriented world in the spirit of dialogue, debate, and deepened understanding. Participants in this broad academic endeavor draw on an extensive array of theoretical and research paradigms.
Major topics include the strategic and organizational management of technology, invention and innovation; the dynamics and mechanisms that drive research and development, innovation and technological change; the impacts of new technologies on organizational forms and strategy; knowledge, intellectual property, and the economics of science; the role of inventors and scientists and the involvement of the community in innovation, including crowdsourcing, open innovation, open-source technologies, user innovation; the scaling and commercialization of technology and innovation including the division of innovative labor; the development and evolution technological systems, platforms and ecosystems; emerging and transformative technologies, including artificial intelligence, climate change technologies, “big science” and deep technologies such as quantum computing, fusion, and nuclear technologies; digital technologies, information sharing and its interdependence with digital behavior, economics, and regulations.
TIM scholars employ a variety of epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies and create new knowledge relevant to a wide array of stakeholders including scholars, scientists and inventors, organizational leaders and managers, entrepreneurs and investors, regulators and policy makers.