Sepehrُ Ghazinoory

Tarbiat Modares University | TMU · Department of Management & Economics

The purpose of this paper is to underscore the necessity for implementing a cleaner production strategy in order to achieve sustainable development for Iran's industries. While reviewing the reasons for the need to adopt the strategy of cleaner production for the industries of developing countries, the special features of Iranian society which make...

Smart cities are one of the consequences of digital transformation, and there have been many attempts to assess the smartness of cities with various frameworks. Among these frameworks, smart city maturity models (SCMMs) evaluate the existing conditions of cities and provide guidelines for progressing through the subsequent stages of maturity. Howev...

This paper aims to investigate the similarities between the development of the “innovation process” at the national level and the evolution of a “natural biome,” and subsequently introduce a new metaphor called the “National Innovation Biome.” To this end, the metaphor research methodology has been used based on its eight principles of optimality....

There are different models and methods for technology acquisition, but making the right choice and optimal use of models and methods plays an important role in success technology acquisition. In this research different methods and models are both introduced and criticized. In addition, a three dimensional model resulting from the interaction of fac...

Recent technological developments have substantially impacted on the music industry. The advent of Industry 4.0, which comprises technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, the Internet of things, and blockchain, has transformed the music industry value chain. Despite the significance of these changes, there is insufficien...

Tadbir No. 15 of the document of the Iranian Islamic model of progress is dedicated to the security and resilience of the virtual space and the need to use indigenous knowledge and global partnerships in it. An issue that seems to have been left aside in many policies and practical decisions related to virtual space in favor of a non-specialist sec...

Converging technologies require intelligent policy-making as they have significant capabilities to develop disruptive innovations. In this regard, future-oriented technology assessment is vital given the great uncertainty about the consequences of and barriers to accessing these technologies. However, few frameworks have been developed to evaluate...

International trade has a great role in the economic development of countries. One of the effective organizations in the field of trade facilitation is the customs, which is known as the economic border guard of the country. In the report presented by the World Bank, Iran has an unfavorable position in the field of cross-border trade among the coun...

With the events of recent years in the international scene, including the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, the US-centered unipolar order that ruled the world in the last two decades has faced serious risks, and now the world is on the threshold of a new order. Technologies based on human factors that have been formed to help...

Environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural challenges are numerous, momentous, and interconnected in the modern world. in the last two decades, Scholars have developed social, environmental, sustainable, responsible, inclusive, mission-oriented, and challenge-oriented policy approaches to expand the policy discourse of transfor...

Researches that lead to a fundamental understanding of the research subject and do not have a specific practical purpose are called fundamental researches. Various aspects of these studies have been the subject of research by researchers from Iran and the world. More knowledge of Iranian researchers about Iran's special conditions and its effect on...

In recent years, the concept of innovation ecosystems has become commonplace for understanding the process of creating shared value. On the other hand, due to the importance of radical innovations in creating a unique defense capability and evolving of these innovations in a network of different actors, the need for an ecosystem view is felt more....

Managers of holdings that own a large number of companies are always faced with the question of which decisions should be centralized and made at the holding level and which should be left to company level managers. Technology planning is one of those cases that its process of making decisions and the degree of concentration is unclear, especially...

Metaphors have so far inspired many researchers to explain complex concepts or new theorizing. But there is no clear instruction for metaphor-based research and its validation principles. Here, we first locate metaphor research in social sciences and humanities (SSH) and classify different types of its use. Then we describe the basics of metaphor i...

Financial technologies or fintech have changed the way financial services are provided and have replaced traditional financial services. Large investments have been made in fintechs but there is a gap between service providers and consumers. Due to the high diversity and speed of change in this field, people still do not understand and resist the n...

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported that the fourth author’s name needs to update from "Ehsan Zandi" to "Mohammad Ehsan Zandi". The correct author’s name has been provided in this Correction. The original article [1] has been updated.

Iran has a great advantage in the development of the steel industry due to its access to mineral resources and energy, extensive consumer market, and low-cost labor. The Iranian steel industry is almost state-owned, has developed less regarding the global value chain, and is mostly based on direct reduction and electric arc furnace technology; ther...

Technology development plays a significant role in the petroleum industry. In countries where all oil activities are carried out under the supervision of the National Oil Company, technology development must be done at the industry level. The development of technology at the industry level requires careful planning at different layers of the indust...

Governments can implement monetary and fiscal policies to facilitate the formation and growth of firms, such as tax incentives and direct funding. In developing countries, these incentives are for various purposes like to regulate the allocation of resources, support private sector investments through incentives, palliate inequality between income...

Iran has a great advantage in the development of the steel industry due to its access to mineral resources and energy, extensive consumer market, and low-cost labor. In this article, the Iranian steel value chain in 2014-2016 is studied using the value chain analysis and material flow analysis. Accordingly, based on the statistics related to the in...

Background The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) has encountered different issues and challenges over the last two decades. The main purpose of this research is to review the issues and challenges in high- and middle-income countries through reviewing studies related to the HTA. Methods The HTA area literature of different countries was collected...

The prerequisite of developing countries’ economic growth is to move along the technological development trajectory through technological learning, and large firms as hubs of technological knowledge, play an important role in this transition. In this paper, we tried to bridge two main taxonomies in the field of technological development, one of the...

Researchers tend to rely on metaphors to gain initial comprehension of complex systems. However, literature offers little guidance for this strategy. This paper presents criteria for using metaphors responsibly in this arena by applying them to evaluate ecological metaphors related to innovation systems. We develop the idea of innovation ecotone as...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present and evaluate the performance of innovation systems by considering two indicators of efficiency and effectiveness. The scope of the evaluation is globally and due to the situation of each country, the suggested strategies are proposed to maintain the status quo or move toward the desired situation for...

In the management literature, the terminologies of assessment and evaluation in some cases are treated synonymously and are used interchangeably. However, these terms have different meanings and pursue different goals. In the area of public policies, the two approaches to assessment and evaluation have yet to be separated. The article employs disco...

Considering cultural industries functions on the one hand, and existing resources in Iran, such as educated manpower and rich cultural content on the other hand, there are significant opportunities for developing these industries in Iran. Nevertheless, there are no clear vision and scenarios for these industries. In this paper we provide an image o...

Environmental issues such as water scarcity are typically multidimensional problems, and resolving them requires a systems-based approach and socio-technical innovations. This article applies the “Problem-oriented Innovation System (PIS)” as a new approach to resolve water scarcity problem. In Iran, this has not been the case as natural water scarc...

Purpose Big Data (BD) is not only a quintessential part of many economic activities but also has evolved into a veritable business ecosystem. However, most Big Data ecosystem (BDE) models have a technical, bottom-up focus and mostly lack the capability for a broad socioeconomic analysis. This paper identifies the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA...

Despite the growing trend of networking approaches in policymaking, the concept of collaborative policy networks (CPNs) and, in particular, the identification of their characteristics, remain a serious research vacuum. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to provide a model for identifying the characteristics of CPNs. For this purpose, the scien...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the probable future scenarios of nanotechnology development and their implications in Iran considering anticipatory knowledge, suitable methodology and integral perspective. Design/methodology/approach The study used framework morphology, a method for creating scenarios and their implications developed by the...

This paper tries to provide a socio-technical interpretation of Iran’s defence industry transition over the past few decades. Focusing on anti-tank industries, we will elaborate on the threefold periods of transition in Iran’s defence industry to a multi-level system by means of Bourdieu’s triple levels of inquiry. The results indicate that the bal...

PURPOSE: The main purpose of this paper is to define a science and technology policy network in the form of a social network, from the perspective of policy documents, and then analyze it using the social networks analysis (SNA) method. METHODOLOGY: As a case study, the science and technology policymaking network in Iran is analyzed using the sugge...

This paper tries to provide a socio-technical interpretation of Iran’s defence industry transition over the past few decades. Focusing on anti-tank industries, we will elaborate on the threefold periods of transition in Iran’s defence industry to a multi-level system by means of Bourdieu’s triple levels of inquiry. The results indicate that the bal...

This paper tries to provide a socio-technical interpretation of Iran's defence industry transition over the past few decades. Focusing on anti-tank industries, we will elaborate on the threefold periods of transition in Iran's defence industry to a multi-level system by means of Bourdieu's triple levels of inquiry. The results indicate that the bal...

Tax incentives and direct funding are two different public support instruments used to facilitate the formation and growth of firms. Limited empirical evidence has compared the effectiveness of two different policies and their interactions for firms. In this paper, we investigate the main and interaction effects of these interventions on high-tech...

Institutions, as structural components of the National Innovation System (NIS) play an important role in NIS performance and many economists have proven it. In the NIS context, some researchers argued that institutions are X-efficient and X-effective but they didn’t open up that much about how to measure them. Therefore, in this study, an eightfold...

The innovative output of nations is partly explained by the strengths of its innovation ecosystems. The Iranian Lalejin city has been home to a ceramics and pottery industry for at least 200 years. Despite showing resilience over the years and occasional success; e.g. the 2016 “World Pottery Capital” designation; the industry is facing plummeting d...

The NTBFs have attracted growing interest from most of the transitional economies as they are seen as an important source of greater value added creation while being characterised with higher rate of return on capital. Shedding light on the growth determinants of new technology-based firms not only helps managers to accomplish organisational goals...

Purpose Innovation and technology development policy-making naturally encounters numerous uncertainties and complexities, especially in developing countries, for the sake of the prevailing prospect of decision makers focusing on hard evidences, and neglecting key and effective social ones; in this research, a context-based method by means of Q-meth...

Research and development (R&D) in the business sector has a critical role in a knowledge-based economy because it results in commercialization and wealth creation with a high probability. In Iran, the business expenditure on R&D is at a low level because the businesses have no incentive to research or there are some impediments for conducting R&D....

A consistent mix of policy tools can solve complex policy problems. However, the diversity of policy instruments and their interactions make the analysis of various packages difficult. Mathematical methods can help policy makers to choose better alternatives. This article proposes a novel application of a multi-objective decision-making (MODM) meth...

Purpose Because of importance of technological learning for less developed countries, the notion has received increasing attention of scholars. The purpose of this paper is to investigate technological learning systematically by assessing the effect of technology transfer actors on technological learning in less developed countries context. Desig...

Innovation is considered the advantage cause for the nations in creating wealth and access to the development. Different countries have specific plans and policies to promote innovation. One of the strategies to develop high-technologies and innovation is the innovation networks approach. These networks work based on collaboration and learning. In...

Today the competition is not only among businesses but also among business models. The future environment should reflect on the future business models currently being designed. Previous research has pursued the concept of a future business model through future methodologies with respect to specific cases, but the literature does not suggest any met...

Background and objectives: Today, mankind has reached at this important point, which next generations survival depends on management function of present generation, therefore to protect probability of survival of next and present generations, has accepted sustainable development and management, and it'll has no way. In order to achieve this concept...

Fast growth of level of technological capabilities of India and China has attracted the attention of policy makers and researchers in recent years. In addition to their domestic efforts, transfer of R&D activities of MNCs to these countries facilitates their rapid growth. In this context, this study intends to analyze the features foreign direct in...

Appropriate types of futures studies scenarios in health Mostafa Hosseini Golkar , Seyed Sepehr Ghazinoory , Fatemeh Saghafi , Mohammad-Rahim Eivazi , Atousa Poursheikhali , Reza Dehnavieh Faculty of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, & Institute of Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Shahab, Kerman, Iran....

Purpose This research presents a technology roadmap for social banking in Iran. Technology roadmapping is a tool for decisionmakers to identify, assess and choose between different strategic options to achieve the best technological objectives and help companies and industries to better understand their market and technological choices. As social...

This paper aims to determine whether the dichotomy between the science, technology, and innovation policy based on neoclassical and evolutionary schools of economics is applicable to developing countries. Regarding the fundamental differences in foundations of these two economic paradigms, policymakers have been forced to select and to follow one o...

Due to many differences in presumptions and theoretical foundations within neoclassical and evolutionary economics, policy-makers are always confronted with the dilemma of selecting one of these two central models for technology and innovation policy. In light of widely institutionalised ineffectiveness in the field of market and systematic coordin...

هدف این مطالعه شناسایی عوامل موثر بر هزینه کرد بخش کسب و کار ایران در فعالیت های تحقیق و توسعه است. روش شناسی این پژوهش کمّی و با رویکرد پیمایشی نمونه ای شامل 27 نفر از مدیران واحدهای تحقیق و توسعه شرکت ها در صنایع دارو و تجهیزات پزشکی، نانوفناوری و مواد پیشرفته انتخاب و داده های گردآوری شده به روش مدلسازی معادلات ساختاری با رویکرد حداقل مربعات جزئ...

This paper aims to provide a new classification of national science and technology (S&T) evaluation systems. This evaluation system will consider five analytical dimensions extracted from international practices consisting of the following: evaluation system function, evaluation interactions framework, evaluation organization, evaluation model of f...

Technology is one of the sources and origins of deficits. Today there is a broad consensus that adequate and targeted innovation is a key factor in getting closer to sustainable development. It is essential to understand that the meaning of ‘‘adequate’’ cannot be clarified only by using technical parameters. The real impact of emerging technologies...

Technology is one of the sources and origins of deficits. Today there is a broad consensus that adequate and targeted innovation is a key factor in getting closer to sustainable development It is essential to understand that the meaning of ‘‘adequate’’ cannot be clarified only by using technical parameters. The real impact of emerging technologies...

New technologies may create benefits, but can also sometimes introduce or exacerbate societal problems. There is broad consensus that adequate and targeted innovation is a key factor for achieving more sustainable development [1]. It is essential to understand that the meaning of "adequate" cannot be understood using only technical parameters. The...

Futures of Iran’s Software Industry a Scenario Development Approach چکیده [English] The software industry is a manifestation of soft skills as well as human abstract and intangible thinking based on human intelligence. However, the effects are understandable. Passing the hardware era and considering software technologies reveals the necessity of th...

يكي از اصلي ترين انگيزه هاي تحقيقات در حوزه مهندسي و علم در مقياس نانو، پيشبرد اهداف وسيع اجتماعي است؛ در رويكرد متعادل آثار اجتماعي توسعه فناوري، نه تنها مزاياي اجتماعي بلكه پيامدهاي پيش بيني نشده نيز مدنظر مي­باشد. مورفولوژي به عنوان نوعي از ارزيابي پيشيني سياست­گذاري، اين اطمينان را ايجاد مي­كند كه با مدنظر قراردادن اهداف بديل و عدم­قطعيت­هاي آث...

One of the basic engineering and scientific research motivations in the nanotechnology scale is society's widespread goals. In a balanced approach to society's effect of technology development, not only society's advantages but also unpredicted effects are emphasized. Morphology as a pre-evaluation of policymaking ensures that it has considered alt...

Iran's petroleum industry is facing challenges including maturity of hydrocarbon fields, growing population of the nation that demands additional revenues from petroleum exports, and international economic sanctions that have limited access to technology sources. Restrictions from international technology providers have led managers of the industry...

The impact of information & communication technology (ICT) in increasing financial transactions in different fields, shows the positive developments of this industry in Iran. But could the ICT industry also be effective in the economic capital of the country? This could occur when the ICT industry has a good performance in the capital markets. In t...

A business interacts with environmental forces that shape opportunities and pose threats to the company. However, the current dynamic and unstable business conditions lead to complexity and an increased uncertainty about the future. In such an altering atmosphere, businesses should change their business models regularly in order to maintain their c...

Nowadays, the competition is not only among technological businesses but among business models as well. Previous researches have pursued the concept of future business model through future methodologies with respect to specific cases but the literature does not suggest the successful orientation of business model components under future plausible s...

One of the areas of significant importance in the growth of Information Technology (IT) in the world is the issue of open source software. The movement of open source software has led to considerable advancement and transformation in the world's IT industry. It is considered as one of the hotly-debated issues today. In Iran, open source software ha...

Scenario development is one of the popular methods of futures studies. There has been a lot of attention paid to different methods of scenario writing in theoretical literature; but what is important is to evaluate the scenarios which has not been a matter of comprehensive study heretofore. In this paper, we have carried out a comprehensive study i...

This paper performs a fine-grained analysis of regional innovation models discussed in the literature, using a combination of quantitative (co-word analysis) and qualitative (meta-synthesis) methods applied to 300 papers from the Scopus and Sage databases covering the period 1990–2013. The co-word analysis produced knowledge maps that identify the...

In this study, we propose an integrated heuristic approach for the fuzzy mixed-model assembly line balancing problem. The proposed approach considers bottleneck easing-based assignment of work and product mixture determination by using a fuzzy revised theory of constraints in a capacitated line to maximize the total throughput and minimize the cycl...

Background/Objectives: Innovation networks aim to increase collective learning and are a means of creating innovation. Different policies are made to increase the efficiency of these networks. These policies have several financial consequences for policy-makers. One of the most low-cost policies is a policy to increase collaborations and communicat...

Scenario development is one of the popular methods of futures studies. There has been a lot of attention paid to different methods of scenario writing in theoretical literature; but what is important is to evaluate the scenarios which has not been a matter of comprehensive study heretofore. In this paper, we have carried out a comprehensive study i...

The main objective of this paper is to explore the model of how knowledge management functions enables national innovation system. To achieve the objectives of the study, a conceptual framework is proposed and described, then the systemic analysis is undertaken. Path coefficient and t-value are also used to measure the relationships among chosen va...

Common innovation performance measures, which are based on research and development activities, are not relevant to dominant innovation behaviour of developing countries. The main functions of the innovation system of developing countries are capture, imitation, learning by doing and diffusion of knowledge, to reduce technology gaps with technology...

Purpose – In the last two decades, researchers have paid much attention to the role of cultural values on economic and social development. In particular, the crucial role of different aspects of culture on the development of innovation has been stressed in the literature. Consequently, it is vital to understand how social capital, as a core cultura...