ارزيابي و رتبه بندي سطح فناوري شش شاخه صنعتي منتخب استان خراسان با استفاده از روش TOPSIS

Technology Assessment in Selected Industrial Branches of Khorasan using TOPSIS Method

Technology assessment is a vital stage in the process of decision-making in industry and technology management. It is a part of technology management and has to integrate the socio-economic context of a technology in order to fulfill the demands completely. In this paper we try to evaluate and assessment of technologies for six. selected branch of Khorasan industries by TOPSIS method with respect to eleven qualitative and quantitative criteria and Porterʹs technology assessment method have been conducted. Criteria under consideration weregathered via statistical documents and questions for asking from experts of industries and universities. Results obtained show that the industrial branch of food production and beverages (code 15) among six selected industrial branches was at the first rank and production of other nonmetallic mineral products (code 26), textile manufacturing (code 17), equipment and machinery manufacturing (code 29), plastic products (code 25) and motor vehicles (code 34) were in the following ranks, respectively.