DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
GENERAL INFORMATION
This innovative, first-of-a-kind Doctor of Philosophy in Technology Management (PhD-TM) Program focuses on the increasingly important Technology Management field to develop scholars, researchers, and academics and to contribute to knowledge-generation relevant for the technology-centered business environment. This terminal degree program provides a solid research background necessary for modern PhDs in management. This research-intensive program is designed for the students who are largely interested in research-based positions at academic and research institutions. Universities, government agencies, non-for-profit research organizations, corporate research centers, and research-based consulting firms are the target placement opportunities for the PhD-TM graduates.
The Department of Technology Management, a part of the second oldest private, technology-based university in the US, has the unique scholarly capabilities required to support this robust and respected PhD Program. The Faculty in the Department of Technology Management possesses significant research strengths in diverse range of Technology Management-related fields. The Faculty’s major professional commitment is to research, thereby contributing to the theory and practice of Technology Management in important and fundamental ways.
Strategically located in the high-technology heart of New York City, the PhD-TM Program provides immediate access to the world-leading business community and industries (such as financial services, entertainment and media, health care and pharmaceuticals, publishing, advertising, and fashion). This broad industrial base serves as an unparalleled platform for conducting research, obtaining research support and discovering diverse opportunities for scholarly and educational collaboration. Therefore, PhD-TM students have a unique base to perform relevant field-based research, not be easily possible at many other universities.
The Department’s Institute for Technology & Enterprise (http://www.ite.poly.edu) is New York’s premier research and educational hub for bridging management and innovation. The Institute is a focal point where practitioners, researchers and professionals can interact and learn from one another. The Institute offers a portfolio of Round Tables, Seminars, Leadership Forums, and other research-based activities. PhD-TM students are expected to participate and indeed take lead roles in the Institute’s research undertakings.
The Department offers a full range of excellent academic programs and knowledge-generation activities—all related to Technology Management in same essential fashion. These programs include: Executive Master’s Programs (MOT and TIM), evening Master’s Programs (MSM, MS-FE and MS-OB), and a focused Undergraduate program (BS-TI&M). These programs taken together create a broad value chain educational efforts in which courses and students with a strong interest in Technology Management provide PhD-TM students with a host of rich opportunities for intellectual and educational experiences.
Polytechnic Institute of NYU (historically known as “Brooklyn Poly”), which granted the first PhD in 1935, is the leading engineering school in the New York City/ Tri-State Region. The PhD-TM Program, building on the Department of Technology Management’s close and interdisciplinary links with other Departments and Research Centers throughout the University, takes full advantage of the strengths of Polytechnic Institute of NYU in Engineering, Science and related fields.
SAMPLE RESEARCH THEMES
The following are examples of the themes that a PhD-TM student can select:
- Innovation strategy and management
- Sector-specific patterns of innovations
- Disruptive technologies and innovations
- Information technology-enabled innovations
- High-tech marketing and innovation diffusion
- Strategic alliances for innovation
- Technology life cycle
- Technology strategy
- Supply-chain management and integration
- Knowledge management
- Management of information systems and technologies
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- Strategic uses of information technologies
- Information economics and strategy
- Leadership in high-tech firms
- Cross-cultural leadership
- Leadership measurement
- Management of knowledge workers
- Managing the human aspects of technological change
- Impacts of technology upon individuals, organizations and society
- Technical competencies
- Real options in decision making
- Design patterns for information-less trading
- Global technology management
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