ارزيابي وضعيت نوآوري در منطقه جنوب غرب آسيا و تعيين جايگاه ايران، كاربرد روش تصميم گيري پرومته

Evaluation of Innovation in South West Asia Countries and Determine of IranʹS Position: Application of PROMETHEE

This paper has two purposes. The first is evaluation of innovation criteria in West-South Asia Countries as well as benchmarking of Iransʹ position in the region. The second purpose is description of integrated application of PROMETHEE and Entropy techniques for outranking. Initially, for these purposes, criteria of innovation assessment were determined. Then Entropy used for weighting of criteria and PROMETHEE for outranking of alternatives/countries. Results show, according complex innovation indicator, Lebanon, Georgia, Emirate, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan are the first to the seventh rank. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyz and Jordan are the seventh to tenth rank in the same group. And Pakistan, Oman, Syria situate have weak situation.