Some Engineering programs’ curricula include the Technological Management subject. It’s studied to students
registered in undergraduate’s last two years. The course proposes and develops Technological Management basic
concepts and their organizational applications. Its curricular structure initiates with the technological management
macro framework (international, national, regional and local macroeconomic and productive context) and finalizes with
the micro framework one, emphasized in its utility like company tool to plan, improve, control and decide about the
technology.
An Intention with this paper is to share an educational experience which it’s giving a new mean to this subject, as the
course had included a project that crosses the subject and is referring a Colombian context. It let a engineering students
an meaningful or long-life learning since, as they had selected Cali’s little or medium size companies (or known with
PYMES, acronym in Spanish) to developed technological Plans articulated with to the Technology Management global
trends, so Development National Plan policies, so Agenda Interna del Valle del Cauca Objects and Strategies Area and
so own considerations of the sector or productive chains in which the economic activity of this PYMES is developed.
Based on these joints, from the macro framework and from strategic plans of each company, the policies, strategies,
objectives and mechanisms are made, that within the support framework constitute to particular technological
management in each PYME.
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