مجله مدیریت نوآوری
سال ششم شماره 3 (پیاپی 21، پاییز 1396)

Genetic manipulation in microorganisms to produce human required products has been widely used in recent decades, specifically in health industries. Regarding strategic importance of biotechnology in world’s economy, Iran has made investments in this field since twenty years ago which resulted in several achievements. This paper is going to analyze the domestic efforts in Biotech industry and the quality of innovation system evolution, focusing on vaccine production, based on seven innovation key functions introduced by Bergek, et. al. (2007). The importance of Biotech industry, its market situation, and a brief history of domestic human vaccine production are going to be presented first. After addressing the necessity for the country to enter to this high-tech industry, which was commenced with technology transfer project for production of HB vaccine, the functions of its innovation system will be investigated and the results will be discussed by historical data mapping method. Situation of domestic vaccine production innovation system with regard to the blocking and inducement mechanisms at functional level will be analyzed by Delphi method and policy making issues will be pointed out finally.
Accordingly to inhibit 8 blocking mechanisms and stimulate 3 inducement mechanisms, 6 political issues were recommended.

Developing a framework to evaluation of New Service Development performance, can be used for evaluation the success of NSD programs, and identifying strengths and weaknesses and improvement projects. On the other hand, Multiplicity of criteria and influential people in the process, increase the complexity of the evaluation. For this purpose, The present paper aims to developing a framework to evaluation of NSD performance by ISM and ANP. Extracted criteria finalized by experts and categorized in BSC framework. Because of internal communication among criteria, this model evaluated by interpretive structural modeling (ISM). Next, the analytic network process (ANP) approach was applied to weighting this criteria. Finaly, New Service Development performance of Moheb hospital evaluated by this proposed model. The results indicate that the brand value and attraction of customers, are the important criteria for NSD performance. Moheb hospital score was 54 points out of 100 points. So NSD performance of Moheb hospital is moderate to high.

Today, the completive advantage of companies depends on their organizational knowledge and their capabilities to absorb external technologies rather than their physical assets. There are a lot of studies on the absorptive capacity dimensions and the method of measurement in the literature, however the impact of absorptive capacity on the effectiveness of international technology transfer processes has rarely been touched upon. This paper investigates how absorptive capacity can influence the success of international technology transfer process. Therefore, this study elaborates the dimensions of both international technology transfer and absorptive capacity concepts and then operationalizes them in the Iranian National Engine (EF7) Project. With respect to this, four hypotheses are proposed and tested in five manufacturing companies namely – STYM, Laton, IMPC, Mashad Washer and FaraSanat – those which engaged in the project. The results show that the level of companies’ absorptive capacity significantly affects the effectiveness of technology transfer project. The companies with higher level of absorptive capacity were able to achieve a higher level of technological capabilities.

The food and beverage industry, despite its long history of operations in Iran, still facing a lot of problems. A major part of these problems can be attributed to the weaknesses of technology transfer to this industry. Therefore, in this research, we aim at studying the pathology of technology transfer methods in the food and beverage industry of the country. The authors use the CIPP model because of its ability to assess four dimensions of the context, input, process and product. In the second part of the CIPP model, fuzzy BWM and ELECTRE methods have been used to determine the relative importance of identified criteria and to rank the technology transfer methods in the food and beverage industry. Having evaluated the process and found incompatibility in methods of technology transfer, the experts proposed the solutions for removing obstacles. The research results indicate that food and beverage industries in our country unlike some other industries, do not have the ability to invest in technology transfer in the ways of internal development. Also, some of the most important solutions introduced by the experts in order to select the appropriate technology transfer methods is: effective communication management with intermediary companies, the use of expert managers in the field of technology management and considering native influences in the under review industry.

The main purpose for this study is to find practical terms in venture capital (VC) contracting which investigates entrepreneurial firm's stage of growth. Information asymmetry and conflict of interest causes lots of challenges between VC and entrepreneur and there have been a lot of studies considered them based on agency theory, and suggested controlling and motivation mechanisms to mitigate agency problems. But the factor helps to choose among these mechanisms is firm's growth, because the firms needs, characteristics and so the problems change with growth.
Using grounded theory approach, we tried to find different mechanisms which VCs usually use. Open and axial coding helped to find relation between concepts and categories and it shows that developing the firm, improving entrepreneur's abilities and risks can change the contracting approach. Also context conditions such as market, government's intervention, legal and cultural condition change the contracting approach as well.

Despite the government supports, the adoption of dip irrigation technologies in the SALMAS region is even lower than its neighboring regions with less shortage of water crises. Throug a qualitative, exploratory research based on the literature of technology adoption, this paper tries to uncover the reasons behind this lower than expected level of adoption among farmers. The findings suggest that farmers in the eastern parts of the region suffer from insecurities that are caused by ethnic diversity of the local communities.The farmers in the western part, however, prefer having a pretty field over consuming less water. The implications for theories and practice are outlined.