Dr. Rias J. van Wyk
The Director

Dr. Rias van Wyk is the Director of Technoscan® Centre, Minnesota, USA. This Mission of the centre is to advance technological acuity. It compiles and manages the Techno-trend Explorers Manual

Dr. Van Wyk formerly held the William R. Sweatt chair in management of technology, University of Minnesota where he served as program director, Management of Technology. He holds degrees from three Universities, including a masters from Harvard focusing on science, technology and public policy. He is the author of Technology: A Unifying Code, and the Editor of Technoscan® Newsbriefs. He serves on the management of technology accreditation board (MOTAB).

In 2005 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award in management of technology from the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT). In 2008 he was appointed to the Speaker Retainer Program of the CFA Institute ‚Äö a global association of investment professionals. In 2009 he was appointed to the jury of the Globe Award for Sustainability Innovation, an initiative of the Swedish based Globe Forum.

"We serve technology executives, investment professionals and policy-makers. We advance technological acuity."
Dr. Rias J. van Wyk, Director, Technoscan Centre.

Keynotes & Talks: Offerings to conferences, events and meetings. Theme: Technology-based innovation opportunities.

Guidelines for Technology Executives: In-company seminars

Guidelines for Investment Professionals: In-company seminars

Tracking Technological Progress: Technoscan Newsbriefs, montly Newsbrief highlighting advances along the technological frontier.

Techno-trend Explorer's Manual: A compilation of graphs of technology performance metrics (TPMs)

Products: Texts and user's guides

Blog: Technological progress and economic growth.