Óscar Iván Rodríguez-Cardoso, V. Ballesteros-Ballesteros, Manuel Francisco Romero-Ospina
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Engineering, understood as the gathering of scientific and technological knowledge for innovation, creation, advancement and optimization of techniques, as well as a set of useful tools to meet social needs and solve technical problems of both individuals and the community, makes its main actors, engineers, key players in sustainable development and in the creation of alternatives that minimize the negative effects of technology on society. It is in this sense that technology assessment approaches should take importance among those who manage technology development and implementation policies. Generally, the undesirable effects of the intrusion of a new technology are acted upon when they already occur, and technology assessment is intended to anticipate the risk. This paper presents a bibliographic review of technology assessment, its approaches and future study needs. Based on an articulating axis that positions technological change and innovation as an imperative need for social development, an exhaustive review of related articles in specialized databases was carried out. The most important results of this work reveal that the field of technological assessment has been strongly inclined towards the health or sanitary sector; however, research is being developed 1 M. Sc. Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores (Bogotá-Distrito Capital, Colombia). oscar.rodriguez@libertadores.edu.co. ORCID: 0000-0003-1203-4999 2 Ph. D. (c) Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores (Bogotá-Distrito Capital, Colombia). vladimir.ballesteros@libertadores.edu.co. ORCID: 0000-0002-6920-789X 3 M. Sc. Fundación Universitaria Los Libertadores (Bogotá-Distrito Capital, Colombia). mfromeroo@libertadores.edu.co. ORCID: 0000-0002-6457-8827 Constructive Technology Assessment: Systematic Review and Future Study Needs Revista Facultad de Ingeniería (Rev. Fac. Ing.) Vol. 30 (55), e12459. Enero-Marzo 2021. Tunja-Boyacá, Colombia. L-ISSN: 0121-1129, e-ISSN: 2357-5328. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19053/01211129.v30.n55.2021.12459 in central engineering topics such as the development of nanotechnology, robotics, and the handling of big data, where the European model stands out as a reference for technological assessment processes due to its inclusive and democratic nature.
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Revista Facultad de Ingenieria started in 1984 and is a publication of the School of Engineering at the University of Antioquia.
The main objective of the journal is to promote and stimulate the publishing of national and international scientific research results. The journal publishes original articles, resulting from scientific research, experimental and or simulation studies in engineering sciences, technology, and similar disciplines (Electronics, Telecommunications, Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Electrical, Computer Science, Mechanical, Chemical, Environmental, Materials, Sanitary, Civil and Industrial Engineering).
In exceptional cases, the journal will publish insightful articles related to current important subjects, or revision articles representing a significant contribution to the contextualization of the state of the art in a known relevant topic. Case reports will only be published when those cases are related to studies in which the validity of a methodology is being proven for the first time, or when a significant contribution to the knowledge of an unexplored system can be proven.
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Revista Facultad de Ingeniería –redin is entirely financed by University of Antioquia
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