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This document, is the thesis on the field of science and technology policy. The subject is the analysis and explanation of engineered innovation networks based on process approach and by using knowledge base concept. The failure of networks is one of the causes of the failure in the innovation systems, so the analysis of the phenomena would be very important for innovation policy makers for networking. The two main questions of this study are:
a) How do engineered innovation networks fail in the initiation stage?
b) How could we explain this process by using the concept of the knowledge base of innovative activities? During this study, which has beed done based on the... 

In this dissertation، with regard of the importance of innovation and being innovative in the competitive conditions of the markets in the world، and the need of companies for some permanent competitive advantages، we are looking for some models and finding or creating some instruments to know and create knowledge for basics of innovation and innovation capacity before measuring the outputs of innovative projects، as innovation capability، and have the needed knowledge for managing resources and having the intransitive tendency to important factors that crystallize the structure of innovation capacity. For this purpose، we had a vast literature review with reading so many books about... 

Corporations play a significant role in countries economy. These companies are usually active in multi and diverse businesses. Their business diversification could be based on technological capabilities. Therefore it's important to consider the relation between technology strategy (eventually leads to technological capabilities) and the strategy of diversification (as an overall strategy) at acorporate level. Unfortunately, there's no a proper theoretical framework to underpin this relation or offer a method for practical decision-makings. The aim of this research is to fill partially this gap and purpose a new framework for linking technology to business diversification at a corporate... 

This thesis is a part of national studies of “attractiveness analysis and strategy formulation of fuel cell technology in Iran" that was done during more than two years with the guidance of fuel cell steering committee. In this thesis, first of all the possibility of applying the technology strategy model of Arnold Hax in national level was investigated. For this purpose, with regard to the fuel cell technology specifications and status in the country, from the perspectives of national need to the technology, capabilities of technology in the country and new applications of technology, the technology strategy models of positioning school were studied and from the models of this approach,... 

Companies are facing increasingly faster pace of technological evolution. Running a business with a large supply chain without considering the technological changes in the environment might provoke a difficult situation and result in competitive disadvantage. The field of hybrid and electric vehicles has developed a lot in the last decade in the world and the technologies of this field are developing in a dynamic circumstance. Iran Khodro, as the largest automaker in Iran, cannot be indifferent to this reality. Despite the huge oil and gas resources in the country, is it necessary to develop hybrid and electric vehicles in Iran? This is the main question we are trying to answer in the first... 

This research deals with selection of appropriate acquisition method mainly at a firm level. Technology plays a crucial role in firms competetive advantage and should be managed carefully. Management of technology consists of five major functions: Identification, Evaluation & Selection, Acquisition, Exploitation and Protection. From a practical point of view, acquisition is the most important stage of MOT process. Technology can be acquired through different methods. Deciding on technology acquisition method needs three decisions about Mode, Mechanisim and Operional Model to be determined respectively. There are different modes of acquisition such as internal R&D, technology transfer and... 

Despite the profound impact of formal strategic planning on the performance of companies, there have been a few researches on the factors that influence the starting phase of strategic planning process. This research tries to identify these factors and clarify the decision process of conducting strategic planning. In other words, the main purpose of this study is to identify the rationales of companies for initiation of strategic planning. Regarding limited previous studies on this topic, especially about the decision process about conducting strategic planning in Iranian companies, the case study methodology is used. The study is conducted in two phases. In the first phase, five companies... 

The strategic importance of Dynamic Capability (DC) has been a central theme in Strategic Management literature since Teece article released in 1997. But, relatively little attention has been given to the operationalization of the concept in organizations. In this paper we propose a framework based on Pavlo and Daneel researches to identify DC in an organization. Through a in-depth case study in dairy industry we explore the detail component of our framework. With a series of interviews with managers and experts of an Iranian dairy producing company, we first confirmed the framework as a whole and then we conclude that the process of DC introduced by Pavlo can have different interpretation... 

This research that examines bi-directional linkage between technology strategy and corporate strategy, addresses both of forward-path and backward-path linkages. In forward path, corporate strategy is the main and starting point and technology has a supporting role for firm’s corporate strategy. On this way, technology strategy is developed based on the corporate overall strategy. On the other way (backward-path), technology (or any other resource in general) is the driving force and basis for corporate strategy. In this way, overall strategy is developed and formulated based on technology strategy. So, this research and its achievements have reported and followed in two distinct parts... 

Understanding the behavioral processes of boards has been a new line of inquiry in the board literature. This study has focused on the leadership roles of heads of boards of subsidiary companies in a corporation. This subject is widely practical in most industries but rarely explored. An embedded multiple case study design was used to compare the leadership roles of heads of boards of two groups of boards with high and low effectiveness in a corporation assessed by a multi-source appraisal method. Based on several interviews with different stakeholders of the corporation within subsidiary boards of these two groups and the staff managers of the parent company, we compared the mechanisms that... 

Planning as one of the most important management tasks in all organizations is necessary and essential. Strategic planning is at the top of every organization’s decision-making, and it is important and crucial. Universities like other organizations cannot survive or thrive without a clear strategy. This study has done considering the importance of planning in universities and higher education institutions and discussing one of the challenges in this field. This challenge is analyzing the paradox of top-down planning and collective decision-making and the authority of faculty members in universities. It is an exploration research with the qualitative method and according to a case study of... 

Knowledge flows across organizational boundaries shape a firm’s knowledge base. Knowledge structuration refers to the two structural dimensions of a firm's knowledge base: Breadth (knowledge across technology domains) and depth (knowledge within technology domains). Despite the conceptual difference between the terms “(technological) knowledge” and “technology”, the two are often used interchangeably in empirical research on technology management. Our paper adopts an innovative approach, taking advantage of Machine Learning and clinical studies conducted by biopharma companies, to offer an empirical way of distinguishing between knowledge and technology. Moreover, we restructure the... 

Although technology acceptance and continuance intention have been studied for years, certain ambiguities remain unexplored. Researchers have consistently sought to identify the factors influencing individuals' decision-making processes regarding technology adoption, on one hand, and the determinants of their continuance intention, on the other. While extrinsic and intrinsic motivations have been examined as influential factors at the acceptance stage, the dynamics within motivational mechanisms and their differential impacts at the acceptance stage versus the initial usage phase have been overlooked. This study investigates (1) the relationship between users' motivational mechanisms in the... 

The purpose of this study was to identify the dimensions of readiness for change in senior managers in the academic environment. In the literature, the emotional component of readiness for change requires more empirical research. The main question of this research is to identify cognitive and affective dimensions of readiness for change. This research has an exploratory approach, and a qualitative research method has been used to reach the research goals. In order to answer the questions of this research, a case study of Strategic Budgeting Implementation Plan at Sharif University of Technology has been studied. Interviews were conducted with the heads of the depatments of Sharif University... 

The aim of this research is to investigate the relationship between "knowledge relatedness" and “strategic alliance formation”. The tendency to cooperate has been increasing among companies in recent decades. Strategic alliances are considered one of the main types of cooperation. In a complex environment (especially in knowledge-based industries), there are few companies that prefer to rely only on their knowledge and technical capabilities to achieve innovation goals. It seems that the degree of relatedness of knowledge base between two firms influences their decision to enter into a strategic alliance. Knowledge relatedness is evaluated through the complementarity or similarity of the... 

The most important concerns of companies who are active in upstream section of oil and gas industry is to find the ways to get to safe side in the world wide competitive market. With determination of Success factors in each industry those ways become clear for the companies .The objective of the study is to explore key success factors in upstream section of Iran oil and gas industry and also to compare the result with similar international research. It also investigates how enterprises define and measure success as well as how they determine their strategies. With the aid of a questionnaire which has been design in similar research, we got related information from experts who are involved in... 

A study of the market of industrial products in Iran shows that despite having potential capacities, natural resources, an educated and capable workforce and companies capable of presenting competitive industrial products, most of the Iranian market for consumer and industrial products belong to foreign companies.In this thesis, the question of why a great share of industrial products is imported despite the existence of capable domestic producers, is studied.In order to answer this question, the business ecosystem for producers of industrial products is studied. Electric motors, which have a wide range of uses various industries and have a large market in Iran and abroad, were chosen as a... 

High-quality online services demand reliable and fast packet delivery at the network layer. However, clear evidence documents the existence of compromised routers in the ISP and enterprise networks, threatening network availability and reliability. A compromised router can stealthily drop, modify, inject, or delay packets in the forwarding path to launch Denial-of-Service, surveillance, man-in-the-middle attacks, etc. So researches tried to create intrusion detection methods to identify adversarial routers and switches. To this end, data-plane fault localization (FL) aims to identify faulty links and is an effective means of achieving high network availability. FL protocols use... 

Confining nematic liquid crystal between two curved boundary conditions while the nematic molecules have a degenerate planar anchoring leads to complex and beautiful textures of molecular disparagement(defect) in the bulk and on the surfaces. Such the liquid crystal shells are made with double-emulsion techniques in microfluidic devices have provided applications for micro-scale colloidal linkers.In this work, we have numerically minimized the elastic energy in one-constant approximation in present of Fournier’s degenerate surface potential with finite element method. The nematic shell is confined between two spherical surfaces that we have studied the final energies and their related...