ALFONSO MOLINA Alfonso Molina is the Director of the Technology Management and Policy Programme (TechMaPP).  He was born in Chile where he trained as Electronic Engineer at the University of Chile.
Came to Britain and obtained a M.Phil in Electronic Engineering, University of Bradford.  He shifted from engineering to social studies of technology and completed a doctorate at the Science Studies Unit, The University of Edinburgh. His research interests centre on theories of innovation and technology management and strategy, particularly on his original sociotechnical constituencies approach, now widely applied to understand and inform the strategic development of a variety of information and communication technologies.  A particular interest has been to transform this academic theorisation into instruments of practical application for government and company technology strategies.  These include “evolving business plans,” “customised user research,” and “trend-mapping.” Alfonso has worked in numerous occasions as consultant, evaluator, reviewer and rapporteur for directorates DGIII, DGXII, DGXIII of the European Community. He has published numerous books, papers and reports. Employment
1999 – present	Professor of Technology Strategy Director of TechMaPP
1997 – 1999	Reader in Innovation and Management of Technology
1994 – 1997	Senior Research Fellow
Recent Research and Consultancy Projects CEC-DGINFSOC, Public Administrations and e-Commerce in Europe - PACE UK Design Council, Increasing Information Intensity: Towards Intelligent Products CEC DGXIII, European Telematics Horizontal Observatory Service - ETHOS CEC DGXIII/DGXVI, Building an Internet-based Tourism Constituency for SMEs in the Less Favoured Regions of Europe (InTouriSME) CEC DGIII, Building a Knowledge-sharing E-business Cluster in West Lothian, Scotland (BuKS) SHEFC/Scottish Office, Real-time Evaluation of Connect Scotland CEC ALFA, Europe and Latin America National Innovation Systems Telecities/Global Bangemann Challenge – Strategy Framework for Global Cities Dialogue Evaluation of Multimedia Systems Domain of CEC Framework Programme IV Strategic inputs to CEC programmes in microprocessors, multimedia systems, information society, online government, electronic commerce and new organisational practices Telematics strategy of the City of Rome Current and Recent Appointments Member of the Strategy Group of Edinburgh Telematix Partnership Member of the Wired West Lothian strategy and partner selection panel Member the European Group of Scottish Enterprise Served as chairman of the Scottish Enterprise's Resources Group of the Creative Content Industries Cluster Served as member of the international juries for competitions on Internet, G8 Global Inventory Projects (GIP), and the Stockholm Bangemann Challenge Expert consultant to CEC DGXIII in various areas of information society Presented European position on Electronic Commerce at the EU/U.S.A. inaugural meetings for the Science and Technology Agreement, Washington Member of the New York Academy of Sciences Member of the Joint Political Platform of the Global Bangemann Challenge and Telecities chaired by Commissioner M. Bangemann. Member of the finalist international jury of the US Global Information Infrastructure (GII) contest Member of the international jury of the ICT Stories contest, IICD and InfoDev, World Bank Chairman of the international jury of the Stockholm Challenge Award and former Chairman of the jury the Global Bangemann Challenge, the world-wide international contest of information society projects. Chairman of the international jury of the Global Junior Challenge, the global contest of new technology and education projects.

 

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