An ANP application for identifying and prioritizing opportunities and threatens for technology transfer

Abstract: During the past few years, there have been different changes in global market due to fast development of science and technology. These changes have increased competition among all existing companies and it has made it difficult for new rivals to gain market share. This paper tries to identify the opportunities and threats of technology transfer in one of world’s fastest growing gas development regions called Pars Special Economic Energy Zone. The proposed model of this paper first identify important factors influencing both opportunities as well as threats and then uses analytical hierarchy process to rank all factors. The results show that the threats were more important than the existing opportunities and among the most important threats, embargo and sales of oil were the most important ones.

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 Attaran, R., Mehrmanesh, H & Jafarieh, H. (2014). An ANP application for identifying and prioritizing opportunities and threatens for technology transfer.Decision Science Letters , 3(1), 85-92.

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