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Technology Strategy Lab
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The lab explores technology strategy and R&D organizations in relation to society.
AboutAbout the lab
Understanding technology within the links between organizations and society
The Technology Strategy Lab focuses on technology strategy, R&D organizations, and new business creation, and also addresses issues such as the formation of regional industries and regional revitalization.
It views technology not as an isolated element but as something that develops through interactions with organizations, businesses, and local communities.
Drawing on diverse methodologies developed in engineering, the lab examines the relationship between technology and society from multiple perspectives.
Key terms
- Boundary spanner
- A person who stands at the boundary between the inside and outside of a company and handles the exchange of information. Also called a gatekeeper
- A-U model
- The innovation dynamics model represented by Abernathy and Utterback.
- Supply chain
- The network of connections among companies, from the procurement of raw materials until the product reaches the customer
ResearchResearch themes
The lab views technology in relation to organizations, businesses, and local communities, and studies how to formulate technology strategy and how engineers are connected to one another. It relies on statistical methods using data such as patents, and on visualization with network diagrams.
*Illustrative imageIntra-organizational networks of engineers and researchers
The lab visualizes the connections among engineers and researchers with network diagrams and studies the relationship between network structure and outcomes. It also examines the role of key persons who stand at the boundary between the inside and outside of a company (boundary spanners) in technologically discontinuous situations.
*Illustrative imagePeople who make technology strategy effective
The lab analyzes technology strategy using statistical methods with data such as patents. Focusing on developers who achieved results at various stages of technology development, its current aim is to clarify their roles over time.
*Illustrative imageProduct innovation
The A-U model has long offered insight into carrying out technology strategy. However, now that market expansion is considered starting from business models that include services, the conventional view alone makes it hard to understand trends in global product markets, so the lab proposes a production innovation concept that develops and revises the existing model.
*Illustrative imageProduct development seen through the supply chain
The lab views product development consistently through the supply chain. Taking up cases in which “technology changes greatly without changing customers,” it examines the technical organization and the technology strategy formulation that make this possible.
MembersFaculty
The Technology Strategy Lab's members are faculty, doctoral and master's students, short-term international students, academic researchers, and a secretary.As of 2026
- ProfessorShuichi Ishida
- Associate ProfessorTakuo Ando
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “DSCN0819 Desks in University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre” AlasdairW / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Intra-organizational networks of engineers and researchers: “SocialNetworkAnalysis” Martin Grandjean / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- People who make technology strategy effective: “Totalisateur Patent 1913” Eidgenössisches Institut für Geistiges Eigentum / Public domain (cropped)
- Product innovation: “IJT Prototype in hangar” Ajai Shukla, uploaded by User:Sniperz11 / CC BY 2.5 in (cropped)
- Product development seen through the supply chain: “Seaforth Container Terminal Liverpool 2017” Niels Johannes / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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