Industrial Technology Development
Year:2020 | Volume:18 | Issue:40|Papers Count:6

In the last three decades, the government support for investment in the livestock sector has led to the expansion of the dairy industry and its products in the country. However, the lack of attention paid to indigenous livestock products, including traditional dairy products, has led to the underdevelopment of this part of the rural and nomadic industries and even the loss of indigenous knowledge to produce some of these products. The Animal Science Research Institute of Iran and affiliated research centers have made great efforts to identify and introduce local dairy products in the country. The results of these researches has led to the improvement of the quality and safety of some of these products, including lighvan cheese, siahmazgi cheese, and koze’ ei cheese, and so on. Although in many provinces of the country, there are various local dairy products with a history of several hundred years of production, but not introducing them to the consumers and the industry has endangered their continued production. In this article, based on 30 years of applied research carried out in the Animal Science Research Institute of Iran and affiliated research centers, efforts have been made to introduce these products while identifying initiatives, opportunities, and market potential for commercialization of these products in the country. Meanwhile, a mechanism for the commercialization of these products to the local dairy market has been proposed. The authors believe that the commercial production of these products will promote entrepreneurship and ensure the quality of local/indigenous products and the economic prosperity of the villagers and the nomadic community.

Nowadays, choosing the right strategy is one of the most important factors in promoting and preventing the loss of company capital. Achieving an integrated system that takes into account the conditions for selecting different strategies, in considering all the effective variables and key factors, is essential for any company. In this paper, using previous studies in the field of technology strategies and corporate behavior, we have attempted to develop a model to provide appropriate technology strategy choices based on key effective components such as appropriability, opportunity, accumulation and implication of knowledge and by integrating technology strategies and corporate behavior. The results of the examination of the balance between basic technologies and Freeman's technology strategies, in a table named of concordance table are extracted and categorized and integrated on the basis of common components with the corporate behavior table. The resulting integrated table, which includes different modes of business environment, is used as the external factor of the company and the absorption coefficient and leakage coefficient are considered as internal factors in the Fuzzy analysis in the FIS system and accordingly the fuzzy model of choosing the appropriate technology strategy of the company is developed. Finally, it is validated using a numerical example of the proposed model.

Dynamic Capabilities are the capacity of an organization to create, expand, or purposefully modify the resources of the organization. The organization relies on resources in order to achieve their goals. One of the most important dynamic capabilities is the dynamic capabilities of research and development in organizations. One of the most important outputs of research and development is innovation. So, research and development dynamic capabilities can have a significant impact on the innovative performance of companies, such as food industry companies. Consideing that innovation in companies creates core competency and plays an important role in gaining competitive advantage. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the dynamic capabilities of research and development in food industry companies and the impact of each of these capabilities on innovative performance. in order to analysis the data, AMOS software has been used. Finally, in this study, 19 final indicators were identified as research and development dynamic capabilities in the food industry. Amoung these indicators, the capability and create coordination between the processes of the research and development unit and other organizational units has the greatest impact on the research and development dynamics capabilities. In the "sensing variable", the speed indicator in detecting changes in the industry, in the "seizing variable", the indicator of related activities to add value to customers in the organization's strategic plans, and in the "re-configuration variable", the indicator of ability to integrate new knowledge with existing knowledge have the highest coefficients of determinants. It was also found that research and development dynamic capability with a 99% confidence interval has a positive effect on innovative performance.

Today, organizational knowledge is recognized as a very valuable intangible resource for gaining a competitive advantage. Managing such intangible assets is essential for maintaining and gaining a competitive advantage for organizations, especially knowledge-based companies whose survival and success are tied to knowledge. Knowledge can improve and enhance the performance of organizations when shared across the organization. Despite the vital role of internal knowledge sharing, little research has been done on the factors affecting knowledge internal knowledge sharing in knowledge-based companies. For this purpose, in the present article, first, by reviewing the background, the factors affecting the internal organizational knowledge sharing in organizations were extracted, and then, using the DEMATEL method, the relationships of these factors and their prioritization have been studied. The present study is a descriptive and survey research and is a tool for collecting secondary data (library studies) and primary data (questionnaire). After designing the questionnaire and confirming its validity by experts, the questionnaire was distributed and filled by 30 experts and managers of knowledge-based companies located in S&T Parks of Shahid Beheshti University, University of Tehran, and Tarbiat Modares University. The research results show that formal and informal procedures, open-door policy, and knowledge sharing strategy are the most influential factors and in contrast to communication and network, people's knowledge and interactive memory system are the most influential factors.

Today, leading organizations have realized that in order to survive in the fast-paced world of information and continuous environmental change, it is essential to become knowledge-based through the implementation of knowledge management in the organization. The purpose of this study is to design and implement a model of organizational readiness assessment to become a knowledge-based organization. Being prepared for knowledge management means the ability of an organization, department, or work group to accept, use, and benefit from it successfully. This research is a descriptive survey and provides a model for measuring organizational readiness in knowledge management. This model, after the approval of experts and the necessary reforms, consisted of 21 sub-criteria and 5 main criteria of leadership, staff, culture, process and technology. The reliability of the model was measured and confirmed by Cronbach's alpha and the two-half methods. In the two-way method, the overall reliability coefficient of the test was 0. 931 and in the Cronbach's alpha method was 0. 877. Based on this, a questionnaire consisted of 53 design questions and were distributed in the statistical population of a research center. The received responses were tested and analyzed with the help of descriptive and radar diagrams of the center's status in each of the criteria. The results of the research show that the center is in a good position in the criteria of "usefulness" and "fit in goals" and is not in a good position in other factors. Finally, suggestions have been made based on the results obtained.

Transferring ownership of assets to the host is one of the raised issues in upstream oil and gas contracts. Through time, transferring ownership of oil equipment and installations were considered as a proviso, but this is still controversial because proviso has not independence. By using content analysis method, countries' approach to the transfer of ownership of project assets was analyzed. Investigating some of these contracts in the realm of upstream oil industry, the results indicate that contracts for implementing oil operation do not show homogeneous approach toward alienation transferring of oil equipment and installation. Even in homogeneous contracting model they do not observe the same method; so awareness of these functions in different situations can be found the best time and ways of transferring ownership and third parties rights, rental property and unused property status.