The College of Humanities & Social Sciences (CoHSS) is proud to host this department which is the first of its kind in Ethiopia. The department of Technology and Innovation Management was founded with the primary goal of training and producing professionals in the field of innovation and technology management towards building national capabilities for realizing industrialization and competitiveness. It strives for developing human skills and capacity that meet international standards and enables graduates to innovate, adopt, manage, bargain, and transfer the rapidly changing technology into Ethiopian economic contexts and needs. It is an interdisciplinary/convergence program aiming to fill the technology and innovation knowledge gap of engineering and business graduates. The study program also aims at enabling students analyze current innovation trends and future business opportunities to produce competent and knowledgeable professionals who would significantly contribute to the development and transformation of the industry sector in general and the technology and innovation in particular.

Teaching and Learning Activities

The department of Technology and Innovation Management runs postgraduate programs in both Masters and PhD programs in Technology Management. The department is testament to wide ranging engagement of ASTU in collaboration with several international universities. The department is run through the collaboration of professors from Seoul National University (South Korea) and HTW- Berlin University of Applied Science (Germany); among others.

Research Community Services

The main research areas of the department are: technology management, technology market analysis, technology transfer, strategy, innovation, technological disruption and corporate transformation, product development, intellectual property, corporate entrepreneurship, machine learning, etc.