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Ranking of technology transfer barriers in developing countries; case study of Iran's biotechnology industry

Yazdani, K ; Sharif University of Technology

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2011.6118187
  3. Abstract:
  4. In this paper, first we shall define a list of technology transfer barriers in the biotechnology field through interviews and literature reviews. Next, we shall categorize them into four major categories of technology, and at last introduce all of the hypotheses on the existence of relationship between each part of technology and failure in the technology transfer process. Questionnaires consisting of two parts were created and handed out to all of the specialists and biotechnology idea-holders in the Iranian National Research center of Biotechnology, Lidco Co, Iran Pastor Institute, Biotechnology Department of University of Tehran, etc. Going on, we've evaluated the factors' validity through statistical tests and the recognized barriers' priorities in each category, which were generally, identified by Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) via the software Expert Choice. These priorities describe the high importance of organization-ware (34.1%), information-ware (27%), technique-ware (20.7%) and eventually human-ware (18.1%) respectively
  5. Keywords:
  6. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) ; Analytical hierarchy process ; Biotechnology industry ; Literature reviews ; Management of Technology ; Research center ; University of Tehran ; Developing countries ; Hierarchical systems ; Industrial engineering ; Industry ; Software testing ; Statistical tests ; Surveys ; Technology transfer ; Biotechnology
  7. Source: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 6 December 2011 through 9 December 2011, Singapore ; 2011 , Pages 1602-1606 ; 21573611 (ISSN) ; 9781457707391 (ISBN)
  8. URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6118187