About the Journal
The Journal of Technology Management and Innovation (JOTMI) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed, and indexed electronic journal published by the Faculty of Business and Economics at Alberto Hurtado University. Its mission is to disseminate original and pioneering research on technology management and innovation, with a global outlook and particular attention to Latin America, the Caribbean, and Ibero-America. The journal examines the societal impact of technological change and highlights effective management practices in companies, public institutions, and organizations.
Readership
JOTMI's readership includes academic scholars, government representatives, policymakers, business leaders, and professionals interested in the latest developments and insights in technology management and innovation.
Subject Coverage
The Journal of Technology Management & Innovation accepts articles in the following three categories:
- Management of Technology and Innovation — how technologies and innovations are created, adopted, governed, and managed by organizations, governments, and innovation systems.
- Business and International Management — how firms compete, internationalize, and organize across borders in technology-intensive and innovation-driven contexts.
- Strategy and Management — the strategic decisions, organizational capabilities, and management processes that underpin innovation performance.
Every submission must address a clearly identified problem of technology management and/or innovation within at least one of these categories. The seven thematic areas presented below develop these categories into the journal's current editorial priorities. The areas are not mutually exclusive: a manuscript may speak to more than one. In such cases, authors should identify the area to which their work primarily contributes and indicate it, together with the corresponding category, in their cover letter.
Thematic Areas
1. Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy for Mission-Oriented and Digital–Sustainable Transitions
Primary category: Management of Technology and Innovation
Research examining how policies, regulations, institutional frameworks, and public–private arrangements shape the development, diffusion, and governance of innovation. The journal is particularly interested in mission-oriented and transformative innovation policy, the twin (digital–green) transition, and policymaking under conditions of intermediate state capacity and fiscal constraint.
Within scope: design and evaluation of STI policy instruments; mission-oriented and transformative innovation policy; national and regional innovation systems; sustainability transitions; innovation measurement and indicators.
Outside scope: macroeconomic or fiscal analyses lacking an explicit STI-policy dimension; purely doctrinal legal studies of regulation.
2. Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies: Adoption, Responsible Management, and Governance
Primary category: Management of Technology and Innovation
Studies on how organizations and governments adopt, integrate, and responsibly manage artificial intelligence (including generative AI), biotechnology, and other data-intensive emerging technologies. The area encompasses questions of trust, transparency, and regulatory adaptation, with particular attention to the governance challenges faced by emerging economies.
Within scope: organizational adoption of, and readiness for, artificial intelligence; human–AI collaboration in innovation and R&D processes; responsible innovation frameworks; regulation and governance of emerging technologies in the Global South.
Outside scope: purely technical contributions (algorithms, architectures, benchmarks) that pose no management, policy, or governance question; normative essays on technology ethics without conceptual or empirical grounding in organizations or institutions.
3. Technology Strategy, Open Innovation, and Collaborative Ecosystems
Primary category: Strategy and Management
Studies on how organizations formulate technology strategy, adopt open innovation practices, establish inter-organizational alliances, manage technology transfer, and integrate into ecosystems — clusters, hubs, and science and technology parks — in order to accelerate learning and innovation performance. Priority is given to evidence from emerging economies.
Within scope: open innovation practices and outcomes; university–industry linkages; academic entrepreneurship and spin-off creation; technology transfer and commercialization; R&D and new product development management; platform strategies; ecosystem orchestration and governance.
Outside scope: general strategy, marketing, or operations papers in which technology or innovation is incidental rather than a central construct.
4. Geopolitics of Technology, Technological Sovereignty, and the Reconfiguration of Global Value Chains
Primary category: Business and International Management
Analyses of how geopolitical dynamics, technological sovereignty concerns, and the restructuring of global value chains — nearshoring, critical minerals, and energy-transition resources — reshape firm strategies, industrial upgrading, competitiveness, and R&D investment at global and regional scales. This area includes natural-resource-based innovation and, as a subtopic, decentralized digital economies.
Within scope: nearshoring and regionalization strategies; technological upgrading within global value chains; natural-resource-based innovation (mining, agrifood, green hydrogen); governance of critical and strategic technologies; token-based or decentralized economic models when linked to concrete firm-level or policy questions.
Outside scope: international relations or security analyses without implications for firms, industries, or innovation systems; speculative cryptocurrency or trading studies lacking a management or governance dimension.
5. Technology Entrepreneurship, SMEs, and Sustainable Business Models in Emerging Markets
Primary category: Business and International Management
Analyses of entrepreneurial ecosystems — particularly in Latin America and other emerging contexts — addressing technology-based, socially oriented, or environmentally focused ventures; the digital transformation of small and medium-sized enterprises; and the financing mechanisms, capacity-building efforts, and scaling strategies these ventures deploy in volatile environments.
Within scope: startup and entrepreneurial ecosystems; digital transformation of SMEs; impact-driven and sustainability-oriented ventures; venture financing; strategies for scaling under uncertainty.
Outside scope: entrepreneurship studies in which neither technology nor innovation plays a substantive role, such as generic self-employment surveys or entrepreneurial-intention studies without a technological dimension.
6. Public Sector Innovation and Digital Government
Primary category: Management of Technology and Innovation
Investigations into how public sector modernization — supported by digital technologies, govtech ecosystems, government innovation labs, and new governance models — can strengthen efficiency, transparency, and public engagement.
Within scope: govtech ecosystems and public procurement of innovation; digital public services and digital public infrastructure; government innovation labs; data governance in the public sector; technology-enabled citizen participation.
Outside scope: public administration or public policy studies without a technology or innovation dimension.
7. Capabilities, Talent, and Inclusive Innovation in the Digital Era
Primary category: Strategy and Management
Research on how organizations and territories build the human and organizational capabilities required to innovate — creativity, digital competencies, continuous learning, and adaptation under uncertainty — and on how access to, and participation in, innovation processes can become broader and more inclusive.
Within scope: dynamic capabilities for digital change; management of creativity and talent linked to innovation outcomes; workforce upskilling and reskilling in response to technological change; digital inclusion as an enabler of participation in innovation; inclusive and frugal innovation.
Outside scope: educational technology, classroom practice, curriculum design, or teacher-training studies; organizational behavior or human resource management papers without an explicit link to technology or innovation.
Regional Emphasis
Across all thematic areas, the journal prioritizes contributions that generate evidence from — or carry implications for — Latin America, the Caribbean, and Ibero-America, without excluding work from other emerging regions whose lessons are transferable. Comparative studies connecting the region with global debates are especially welcome.
