JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
Year:2015 | Volume:2 | Issue:3 |Papers Count:6

Despite technology collaboration is a key source of organizational innovation and competitiveness, many technology collaboration projects are failed each year. We can consider various risks for each technology collaboration but we can increase the probability of project success by identification, assessment and management of these risks. This article tries to response this question what the risks of technology collaboration in hi-tech projects of biotechnology and how much their probability and severity are. To respond this question, some technology collaboration projects in biotechnology sector were selected and the risks were identified. Then their severity, probability and detectability were assessed by appropriate method. In this article, 46 risks of technology collaboration projects in four dimensions-personal, interpersonal, environmental and organizational-were classified. Ten risks were selected as the risks with higher RPN. According to this prioritization and research findings, some suggestions were presented to increase the probability of technology collaboration project success.

Production system movement from industrial to infrastructural make to increase production firms capabilities in offer products with low price, up quality and flexibility, and suitable delivery. Products with suitable product competitive capabilities peer result to increase performance level of firms. In this paper surveyed could these cometetive capabilities build under one joint construct, and how relation exit between advanced manufacturing thechnology with production cometetive capabilities and performance. in this survey used from conformity factor analysis and then structural equation modeling. Results show positive signtifacant relationship exit between production thechnology, production cometetive capabilities and performance. Then, present discussion and conclusion, and finally, express limitations and purposes.

Complex Products and Systems (CoPS) play an important role in the economic activities of firms, industries and nations and today increasing attention is focused on this industry. However, producing these types of products have always been associated with complexities and uncertainities and firms are not able to produce them without collaboration. Though, technological collaboration is an inseparable part of producing CoPS. This paper first review the literature of complex products and systems, then it studies the different mechanisms of technology transfer and discuss models and factors proposed in the literature for selection of appropriate mechanism of technology transfer. Then, according to the results of studyied indicators, interviews and comparative studies, technology transfer models were identified and ranked by combining AHP and TOPSIS after distributing questionnaires. For this purpose this paper uses questionnair to rank technology transfer mechanisms appropriate to the company using combined approach of AHP and TOPSIS. Findings of this study show that merger, license, outsourcing and consortium are the most appropriate mechanism of technology transfer for this company.

Knowledge Management in an oranization needs a set of changes in different levels of firms; hence, Change Management has an important role for its success. This paper studies implementing knowledge management, as a new change, in the organization by emphasizing the cultural aspects in knowledge sharing. This research, first identified cultural factors in knowledge sharing, and then, used an experimental way in order to evaluate them in implementation successful knowledge management. For experimental part, a questionnaire is applied in Iranian Research Organization in Science and Technology. Five factors have been identified and studied as the cultural factors affecting knowledge sharing as, trust, commitment, job satisfaction, learning, and organizational communication. The results show that facing the resistance of people, the implementation of knowledge management will occur with a lot of resistance from the people. Therefore, the evaluation of cultural factors in this research doesn't appear in very good level. Although the organizations’ s employees appreciate this change, but cultural evaluation shows that there is not adequate preparation in terms of cultural aspects in the organization.

New technology is an important tool for differentiation on the market. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies (AMTs) have a lot of benefits for organizations. However, selection of inappropriate technology could have devastating impact both financially and strategically. Selection of right technology is a critical stage in a successful technology transfer process. The objective of this paper is developing an evaluation model to judge the appropriateness of advanced technologies by applying the integrated model of FANP-FARAS. This research is applicable in purpose and it has been done with a descriptive survey approach. For prioritization of the selection criteria, the data has been gathered by pairwise comparison questionnaire of FANP and for estimation of the performance rate of different technologies; the FARAS questionnaire has been applied. For the purpose of justifying and selecting new technologies, both qualitative and quantitative factors have been considered in human factors, operational factors and financial factors. Allowing for interdependencies among selection criteria provides a more realistic evaluation process than other selection processes that ignore such interdependencies. The technology selection process is a complex problem, because the decision criteria may be in conflict and may also be uncertain. In addition, interdependent relationships exist among various dimensions and criteria. The findings shows that the proposed hybrid MCDM approach based on fuzzy ANP and fuzzy ARAS is applicable methodology to assist in technology selection decisions. This model provides managers a tool for evaluating several technology alternatives and selecting the most appropriate technology for adoption.

In recent years, intellectual property issue, because of its close relationship with concepts like globalization, free trade, knowledge base economy and technology development has considered in the center of attention of policy-makers and the scientific community's in Iran. To depict a clear picture about IP research activities and to improve the directions of future researches in the field, this paper analyzed these activities in Iran for the period 1984-2013, covering dissertations and for the period 1955-2013, covering scientific papers. By using bibliometric method and theme analysis, the data were analyzed. The results reveal that most of theses and papers done in the field of IP are related to industrial property and brands and patents are the main themes of them. The trend of scientific papers is raising and Iran's IP position in the life cycle is in the embryonic stage at the international level. There was not seen any fundamental researches in this field especially about the relationship between IP, economic development and its effects on social issues in Iran.