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The Institute supports leading programs in the Management of Technology and other technology-related activities. Please click on a link below to learn more about our major programs:
Please see the Institute’s Events and Student Support pages for more programs in Technology Development and Management. These programs are housed and supported in the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization as described in About the Institute.
Management of Technology Program
The Management of Technology Program (MOT), established in 1987 and supported by the Institute, is a joint effort between the College of Engineering, the Haas School of Business, and the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. MOT is the most popular interdisciplinary program at UC Berkeley, with classes and fellowship programs enrolling nearly 1,500 Haas, Engineering and SI graduate students. An associated MOT Certificate program allows graduate students to specialize in the Management of Technology as they obtain their degrees.
The MOT Program seeks to address a number of technology management challenges. We define Management of Technology as the set of activities associated with bringing high technology products to the marketplace. MOT focuses on the operational and organizational issues associated with managing new product development and commercialization.
For more information please visit the program website or contact the MOT Program Manager, Susan Reneau, at sreneau@haas.berkeley.edu.
The MOT-CRC China Fellowship Program
Now it its 5th year, the MOT-CRC China Fellowship Program was created created for MBA and graduate engineering and SI (School of Information) students with an interest in technology, business, and the rapid development of China's high tech economy.
Eight graduate students from the Haas School of Business and the College of Engineering were selected as MOT-China Fellows for 2007-2008. Fellows enroll in the MOT course MOT - Doing Business in China in the Fall 2007 semester to build knowledge and learn about Chinese business customs in preparation for the trip.
The fellowship includes an MOT and CRC organized trip to China, taking place in January 2008. There is no cash award to Fellows beyond partial subsidy of travel to and within China. The Fellows will travel to Shanghai, Guangzhou and Beijing to meet with high tech executives, business leaders, researchers and government officials, and meet their counterparts at Chinese universities.
For more information please visit the program website or contact the MOT-CRC China Director: Jihong Sanderson.
Fisher Information Technology Center
The Fisher Information Technology Center, previously known as the Fisher Center for the Strategic Use of Information Technology, promotes interaction between corporate executives including CIO-level managers and U. C. Berkeley faculty and students through the many programs and services within U. C. Berkeley and the Haas School of Business. For example, the Fisher IT Center supported the recent very successful student-led >play: the Berkeley Digital Media Conferencein November, 2005. The Fisher IT Center serves professional and academic communities of interest in information technology by promoting dynamic interactions between corporate practice, research, and instruction, and by encouraging the professional development of participating information technology professionals, students, and faculty.
For more information on the Fisher Center, please visit the Center website or contact the Executive Director, Jack Grantham, at grantham@haas.berkeley.edu.
Center for Telecommunications & Digital Convergence
The Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence (CTDC), established in 1996, is a research and outreach program designed to help business and governmental organizations understand the sweeping developments taking place in telecommunications markets - including networked multimedia - and to use that understanding to attain competitive advantage and implement sound public policies. CTDC bridges the gap between university researchers and the business and regulatory communities. In addition, CTDC brings together members of the converging computer, telecommunications, and electronic media industries to discuss the complex and contentious issues that confront them in a neutral forum with the benefit of objective and impartial analyses.
CTDC also concentrates on critical issues in telecommunications convergence facing industry, government, and the international research community. The pressures of technological exchange and the massive regulatory reform started by the 1996 Telecommunications Act raise questions about important aspects of public policy, including the role of competition in ensuring socially desirable outcomes and the proper manner of regulating telecommunications networks as they become increasingly intertwined with computers.
For more information on the CTDC, please visit the Center website or contact the Director, Michael Katz, at katz@haas.berkeley.edu.
Center for Research in Telecommunications Policy
The Center for Research on Telecommunications Policy (CRTP) is a multi-university research and outreach program designed to foster business and public policy research on communications issues of regional, national and international importance. Drawing from the fields of economics, business, and public policy, Center research is distinguished by exploring the interactions between business decisions of major telecommunications firms and regulatory, legislative and antitrust developments.
CCRTP provides support for a variety of programs:
- Research on telecommunications strategy and policy undertaken by faculty and graduate students at CRTP member universities,
- An annual telecommunications conference hosted by member universities on a rotating basis. These conferences draw high level representatives from federal and state governments, universities, and industry,
- A working paper series on telecommunications policy and strategy that is distributed to the academic, policy, and corporate communities directly and is also available for downloading at CRTP's web site,
- Annual publication of Consortium research in a special issue on telecommunications policy and strategy by the IMIO journal Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC), and
- Occasional guest speakers who make presentations to students and faculty at various seminars and classes.
For more information on the CRTP, please visit the Center website or contact the Director, Glenn Woroch, at woroch@haas.berkeley.edu.
Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
The mission of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is to foster beneficial and ethical advancement of technology by promoting the understanding and guiding the development of intellectual property and related fields of law and policy as they intersect with business, science and technology.
BCLT has taken advantage of its location near the "fertile crescent" of the information revolution. By reaching out to Silicon Valley and other Bay Area law firms, as well as to leading high technology companies, to forge a program in high technology law that not only provides opportunities for outstanding training for students interested in technology fields, but also serves as a resource for lawyers, industry groups, and other affected parties as they grapple with the complex policy and legal issues arising in the wake of high technology developments.
BCLT has also played an important role in public policy debates and education of public officials. BCLT's conferences and faculty research have directly addressed many salient issues. BCLT faculty frequently testify at legislative hearings and advise public officials. BCLT has become the principal resource for the Federal Judicial Center in its efforts to educate federal judges about intellectual property law. BCLT has organized more than a dozen judicial education programs over the past five years, including an annual three-day retreat in Berkeley for about 40 judges.
For more information on the CRTP, please visit the program website or contact the Director, Pam Samuelson, at pam@sims.berkeley.edu.
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