16.887 EM.427 Tech Roadmapping and Development

This class provides a review of the principles, methods, and tools of technology management for technologically enabled systems and organizations including technology roadmapping, technology scouting, strategic planning, R&D project execution, intellectual property management, knowledge management, partnering and acquisition, technology transfer, innovation management, and financial technology valuation. Topics explain the underlying theory and empirical evidence for technology evolution over time and contain a rich set of examples and practical exercises from aerospace and other domains such as transportation, energy, communications, agriculture, and medicine. Special topics include Moore’s law, S-curves, the singularity, and fundamental limits to technology. Students develop a comprehensive technology roadmap on a topic of their own choice.