Note: Due to fire damage in the James Weir Building, the workshop will now take place in Centre for Corporate Connections, Level 15, Livingstone Tower, 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow G1 1XH. View a location map and download directions.

Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th February 2012 (Glasgow 9:30am-4:30pm)

The aim of this two-day workshop on Technology Roadmapping (TRM) is to assess the extent to which:

• TRM can be a general tool for managing companies’ strategy,
• How TRM compares with other approaches, and
• How companies and other agencies can adopt TRM as a practice of making consensus, particularly for SMEs

We will be addressing the following questions:

• What counts as best practice in TRM, and how does TRM compare with other frameworks, tools and techniques in supporting companies’ strategic processes?
• How do practices in TRM vary with respect to: company size, industry sectors (including proximate ones connected in supply, or as customers), and exporting intensity?
• In policy terms, how can TRM as a social-technical-economic process establish consensus, and what are the qualities of such consensus in scope and durability?

Leading researchers will be presenting papers and discussing in lively interactive sessions.

The programme is as follows:

DAY ONE

• Welcome & Introduction
• State of the Art:

Dr Nikoletta Athanassopoulou, Institute for Manufacturing, Cambridge University

• Roles for TRM with SMEs in their research and development, enterprising and innovation activities:

Professor Matthias Klaes, Keele University

• Discussion on special issue of the journal and possible collaborations

DAY TWO

• Implications for Policy:
  
  Jim Mather CA, Chairman - Gael Ltd

• Future-shaping, coordinating and prospective qualities of doing TRM: 

Professor Robin Williams and Professor Jonathon Sedgwick, Research Centre for Social Sciences, Edinburgh University

• Update on special issue
• Closing

These workshops are appropriate for researchers and policy-makers who are interested in expanding their knowledge about TRM or looking to build from the workshop sessions with TRM as an area of interest for them. We are also in discussion with journal editors about developing a special issue which will involve those attending the workshops. 

For any queries please contact Dr Norin Arshed, Tel: 0141 548 4801 or please email Norin Arshed.

Life Sciences workshop
A workshop focusing on TRM applications for the Life Sciences sector will take place in June 2012. Exact date TBC.

Engineering KE Workshop (Glasgow). Download a flyer
Wednesday 7th March (3-6pm). 

Renewables/Oil/Gas KE Workshop (Aberdeen). Download a flyer
Wednesday14th March, 2-5pm. 

TRM practitioners from large companies will be sharing their practices in the different sectors. The industry based workshops will capture best practice from large companies, inform SMEs on how to implement TRM and also deliver real life case studies which SMEs can adapt to their own companies.

Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th May 2012 (Glasgow 9.30am-4.30pm)

Location: Room 2.13-2.15, Royal College, University of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XQ

The policy workshop will gather and present the information and findings from the Review of Research and Practice Workshop and the Industry Workshops. It will also identify roles for policy makers (industry associations, economic development agencies, government in Scotland) using TRM in how policy-making can adopt TRM, how policy-makers acquire and diffuse TRM and its practices, and in identifying ways in which policy agencies can assist companies in using TRM.

Speakers include:

Geoff Nimmo, retired Technology Roadmap Secretariat (Industry Canada). Geoff is now working as a consultant with The Department of National Defence (Canada) and undertaking Technology Roadmaps working on the implementation of the Soldier Systems Technology Roadmap.

Sharon Ballard, President and CEO of EnableVentures, Inc. Sharon has delivered TRM training and coaching across the USA and globally, including supporting NASA, leading universities and economic development organisations.

Robert Crawford, Director of Innovation, Investment and Growth, NESTA. Robert was previously Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise and of an English RDA and has worked for the World Bank.

Clive Kerr, Research Associate at the Centre for Technology Management, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge. Clive joined the Centre for Technology Management as a Research Associate in April 2005. His interests include visual strategy, roadmapping, technology intelligence, technology insertion and capability management.

Allyson Reed, Director Enterprise and Communications, Technology Strategy Board.

Download the full schedule.

For any queries please contact Norin Arshed:

Tel: 0141 548 4801

Email: norin.arshed@strath.ac.uk