As a matter of fact, all technological activities within an organization must be planned. In critical moments, these activities are gathered in a Technological Plan. This plan involves the identification and the arranging in sequence of activities, human resources allocation, the use of materials, the economic allocations, and progress control methods. Planning assumes that all future events will be aligned with the previous assessment. But not planned events can arise in any technological implementation. This article tries to offer an insight to risk management and contingency plans. So, an improved success rate will be attained.

Modern technological change theory states the importance between the agents of the system of innovation for the economy. In spite of the numerous programs and policies designed to fostering and promoting technological cooperation among different agents of the system, there is still much to do for evaluating the results of such public role. For this reason, the present document –based on the IAIF/FECYT survey- intent to evaluate the Spanish technological policy in order to improve technological interaction and cooperation among innovating agents. The final the conclusion, based on seven indicators analysed jointly, is that the policies not really augment the cooperation, except in some cases.

The departure point of the article is found in the first chapter of the book “In the Innovation Corkskrew” (2004). There is a synthesis of the author’s innovation model. On its variables and relationships a benchmarking model for Spanish innovative firms is developed. The key variables are as follows: Client, Quality, Communication, Project, Knowledge, Technology and Managerial Style. A set of firms (MRW, Irizar, Ingenio, Inditex, eHuman@, and Aldebaran Innovation) are selected. From their experiencies’ description, is it possible to analyze their “geo-innovation”, this is, their innovative potential related to their geographical location. In this innovative benchmarking proposal are gathered innovation models, innovative firms’ experiences, and geographical spaces.

Technology management is being named as one of the most important issues in strategic literature. The aim of this paper is the analysis about technological phenomenon treatment, taking into account the main approaches from management science during last decades. Linking different economic and organizational perspectives, our article develops how Industrial Organization Economics, Organizational Economics, Evolutionary Economics, and the integrative resource, capability, and knowledge-based views affront technology management. The more important contributions of technology as rent-creation factor had been analysed, as well as the unanswered questions from each theory. Once literature was reviewed, we could conclude that each theory contributes in a different way about the role of technology in value-creation process, being impossible to confirm the absolute superiority of any of them.

Economic risks derived from research can discourage investment from private agents. This problem is specially relevant when those agents are SME or new firms, because they must deal with other immediate financial duties. This is a rationale for government technological innovation and R&D stimuli.

Some months ago, the European Commission propose the creation of an European Patent Court. This court is an innovative solution for some cases related with the European Patent. The court will also confer an improved legal security to the patent owner. Lastly, the court will serve as a stimulus for R&D activities carried out by inventors, Public Research Centres, and European firms.

The main objective in this area is to gather scientific approaches (economic, political, social, and human ones) in order to understand and to control the problems related to the arising of the knowledge society, paying special attention to the new relationships between citizens, and also between citizens and political constituencies.

The European Council Lisbon special session of March, 23 and 24, 2000 enforced a new strategic objective for the Union. This objective is aimed to employment development, to economic reform, and to social cohesion as key points of a knowledge based economy.