JOTMI
Editorial Policies

Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Objectives:

Journal of Technology Management & Innovation (JOTMI) is a quarterly online, international, peer-reviewed journal published by the Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Alberto Hurtado. The objectives of JOTMI are to develop, promote and coordinate the science and practice of Technology Management & Innovation. It also aims to help professionals that are working in fields as, engineering and business educators and policy-makers to contribute, to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work. In particular, the journal will focus on the managerial issues and challenges (and ways to address them) brought about by the protagonism of the global technological advancement.

This international dimension is to accentuate in order to promote greater exchange between researchers of different cultural and national backgrounds, thus contributing and enriching our knowledge in the fields of Technology Management & Innovation, with particular emphasis in the transformation of knowledge and technologies into useful products and services in biotechnological industries, as a key driver of economic growth. JOTMI publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in technology management will occasionally be published.

Readership


Professionals, policy-makers, government officers, academics, researchers, and managers in Technology & Innovation.

Subject Coverage:

Coverage includes the following areas of technology management and how they impact upon the areas of marketing, human resources, accounting and finance and the supply chain:

• Government innovation policy, and regulation for innovation.
• Process and product innovation and diffusion.
• Innovation Economy
• Innovation Marketing
• Technology strategy, collaboration and competition.
• Managing and commercializing intellectual property.
• Technology transfer, and innovation support organizations.
• Research in technology management and commercialization.
• Cross-cultural technology management and innovation.
• Team building and team management.
• Managing creativity and creative teams.
• Environments for innovation.
• Managing technological change.

Selection criteria:

Criteria for the article selection includes: that the article need to be novel, relevant, concise, practical, informative and useful to readers of the respective sections of the Journal: Articles, Review, cases studies.

 

Section Policies

Articles

Research Articles are empirical or conceptual papers that present the results of research, new theories which integrate existing literature, or state-of-the-art models in technology management and/or innovation management.

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Review

Reviews are articles that summarize and analyze a topic of importance to Journal of Technology Management & Innovation for those who are not specialists in the topic area of the review. Readers should be able to learn what is known and what questions remain unresolved about the subject.  Reviews should include an introduction to the problem or issue including why the topic is of interest and a discussion of the issues or new information as it relates to Technology Management & Innovation.

The body of the review may be subdivided using headings that describe the major ideas being discussed. Reviews should cite suitable references to document statements that are not considered general knowledge and may also provide a list of printed and/or electronic resources for further information.

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Case Studies

Case Studies should be about work carried out on a national, regional or local basis. They are likely to include the following: a background scenario; a clear statement of the purpose of the work; a relationship to past or current work; who was involved; what happened; what happened; what deductions can be made; a critical review of the work; how the case study has implications for others.

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Podcast

Podcast - in common use, the term refers to audio files published to the web along with a news feed, letting users subscribe to a series of shows and download them automatically. Podcasts are a collection of files, such as audio MP3 files or other media files, referenced in an RSS 2.0 news feed as enclosures.

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Peer Review Process

All manuscripts submitted to Journal of Technology Management & Innovation are subjected to peer-review. The editors also can participate as qualified editors. Upon submission, the manuscript to be reviewed is distributed to 2 qualified reviewers. Reviewers have 2 weeks to review the submission and to recommend to the Editor the acceptance, acceptance with modification, or rejection of the article. If the manuscript is accepted with revision, the Editor returns the manuscript to the corresponding author. Authors should then make any suggested changes in the article and return it to the Editor by email. Finally the editors send back the article reviewed and corrected to the Editor-in-Chief, and also delivers the articles to the different editors. The editor-in-Chief coordinates the editorial procedure and distributes the articles submitted to the journal.

 

Publication Frequency

Volume 5, Issue 1 (special Issue “The Gender Dimension in Technology”)
Final date for submissions: 30 December 2009
Notification to author: 10 February 2010
Online Publications: 15 June 2010

Volume 5, Issue 2
Final date for submissions: 30 March 2010
Notification to author: 30 April 2010
Online Publications: 15 August 2010

Volume 5, Issue 3
Final date for submissions: 30 June 2010
Notification to author: 30 July 2010
Online Publications: 15 October 2010

Volume 5, Issue 4
Final date for submissions: 30 September 2010
Notification to author: 30 October 2010
Online Publications: 15 December 2010

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 



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