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Annals of the University “Constantin Brâncuşi”of Tg-Jiu, No. 1/2008, Volume 2,
ISSN: 1842-4856
TECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS
Doruleţ Grădinaru, PhD.Reader,The Faculty of Economic Sciences,University of
Piteşti
Puiu Grădinaru, PhD.Reader,The Faculty of Economic Sciences,University of Piteşti
1. Technological potencial determining of the PS
The technological potential represents the value of technological resources governed by a PS
within a global strategy and in a given concurential system.
The analysis of the economic potential is done in several sequences. In teh first one the inventory
of the existing technologies within the PS, the future analysis depending on this. A listing of
technologies, competences, know- hows, owned by the PS, starting from the concept of products made
and continuing with their fabrication until merchandizing, and services.
Picture. 1.1. Positioning of technologies according to the concurential position and level of development.
The technologies are being mentioned in the inventory according to their part in the concurential
positioning of the PS and development level. An ideal, equilibrated structure should look like in Picture
1.1.a., and an unwanted, but common kind of structure looks like the one in Picture 1.1.b. The areas
marked in the abscissa axis represent the phases in the evolution of a technology : I. Emergent ; II.
Emerging ; III Mature ; IV anticlimax ; V. Obsolete. The correct appreciation of existing technologies
must also be based on answers to the following questions.
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