Springer Driving the Economy through Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Emerging Agenda for Technology Management

Modern technologies are central to creation of wealth through business expansion leading to economic development. This is visible in the fast-paced technology-induced economic growth experienced by most countries, especially by rapidly growing economies such as India, China, Brazil, South Korea, among others. Increasing individual scientific contribution, nurturing entrepreneurial talent, promoting innovative competence, strategically prioritizing and investing in technologies and enhancing national economic wealth are some of the important Technology Management goals. Technology Management has emerged as a strategic and knowledge domain of interest to academicians, practitioners, and policy makers across the globe. Technology Management has also evolved into an inter-disciplinary concern which requires national and international collaborations and exchange of insights. Keeping this objective in mind the International Conference on Technology Management is organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, a leader in research and education in Technology Management for the last several decades. This conference aims at integrating experiences of academicians, industry leaders, Technology Managers and Innovators towards effective knowledge creation and economic development. The contributions of the present volume are presented at the International Conference on Technology Management-2012 during 18-20 July 2012. From the Back Cover Modern technologies are central to creation of wealth through business expansion leading to economic development. This is visible in the fast-paced technology-induced economic growth experienced by most countries, especially by rapidly growing economies such as India, China, Brazil, South Korea, among others. Increasing individual scientific contribution, nurturing entrepreneurial talent, promoting innovative competence, strategically prioritizing and investing in technologies and enhancing national economic wealth are some of the important Technology Management goals. Technology Management has emerged as a strategic and knowledge domain of interest to academicians, practitioners, and policy makers across the globe. Technology Management has also evolved into an inter-disciplinary concern which requires national and international collaborations and exchange of insights. Keeping this objective in mind the International Conference on Technology Management is organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, a leader in research and education in Technology Management for the last several decades. This conference aims at integrating experiences of academicians, industry leaders, Technology Managers and Innovators towards effective knowledge creation and economic development. The contributions of the present volume are presented at the Conference during 18-20 July 2012. About the Author Chiranjit Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor of Statistics in the Department of Management Studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.  His research interests are Bayesian inference, reliability and survival analysis, statistical computing, statistical quality control, econometrics, empirical finance, and financial econometrics.   K.B. Akhilesh is a Professor in the Department of Management Studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.  His research interests are technology transformation, career and reward management of professionals, innovation and innovativeness, organizational aspects of technology management, evolving performing organizations through people, comparative human resource management, knowledge management model for teams in the IT sector, quality management, organizational change and transformation, virtual  teams in global R&D organizations, recruitment and assessment, HR global bench marking and performance management, expertise transfer. R. Srinivasan is a Prof