ALTEC and technology management in Latin America: Research and management in companies

The seminars of the Latin Ibero-American Association of Technology Management (ALTEC) they are one of the most important spaces in this region for the discussion of the research in the discipline of innovation and technology management. This article presents a brief panorama of the main thematic areas approached in 14 seminars carried out by that association from 1985 until the year 2011. In this context, a group of 18 articles is presented, which discuss in this volume the technology and innovation management in Latin American companies of diverse size, from an individual and sectoral focus. © Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Facultad de Economía y Negocios.