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...

Purpose This study aims to develop and apply a process model for prioritizing and selecting basic research projects in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach Basic research is mainly funded by governments and since, unlike technological research, it does not have clear business goals, its prioritization is one of the complicated issues...

Purpose Financial technologies or FinTech 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 changes, people still do not understand the new financial system and resist it. The success of the transition requires...

The special features of cyberspace, such as universality, providing the possibility of anonymity, and rapid changes, along with its great impact on individual and collective life, make its policymaking and regulation challenging. The security and resilience of cyberspace as one of the complex aspects of cyberspace policymaking and the intersection...

As one of Iran’s main goals, the revival of the Islamic golden age requires excellence in various components of power. Scientific and technological progress has a vital role because, besides having soft power, it is the driving force for strengthening other components. Therefore, the Supreme Leader focused on scientific authority for the first time...

Creative industries are one of the sectors that have been significantly impacted by the emergence of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies. These technologies are more effective in digital creative industries such as music, animation, film, digital games, etc. Among these effects, artificial intelligence enables computers and machines to simula...

Background Facing global grand challenges such as coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) require the participation of various actors in different sectors and systematically directing their innovative efforts. Considering the complexity, non-linear dynamics, and global extent of the COVID-19 challenge, developing and applying a multi-level, resilient,...

Economic policies have largely tried to impact the development of innovations from the supply side. However, demand-side policies have received more attention in recent years. Science and Technology (S&T) parks have traditionally been a supply-side innovation policy instrument and have not always been successful in achieving their goals. This study...

Uncertainties of the future and fundamental changes in communication methods and business environments as a result of technological developments of the present era have posed new challenges for the handicraft industry in terms of design, production, and distribution. Traditional definitions and approaches in the handicraft industry often are focuse...

The emergence of the knowledge-based economy and, as a result, the increase in the importance of categories such as knowledge, innovation, and technology has increased the focus on concepts such as knowledge management, technology management, and innovation management. This article examines the existing articles and the researches that have been do...

Background This research delves into the complexity management of collaborative networks and interorganizational systems in the health innovation ecosystem on the basis of a best practice in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis. The objective is to offer specific solutions and guidelines to stakeholders in the health innovation ecosystem...

Industry 5.0 has recently been introduced as a new concept. Reviewing the literature shows that Industry 5.0 brings three kinds of values: bringing humans back to industries, making businesses more resilient, and reducing environmental damage. Based on the critical capabilities of Industry 5.0, this study aims to determine how Industry 5.0 transfor...

Introduction Cardiovascular diseases are a multifaceted and complex problem in the health system that can change the priorities of the economic, social, and even political systems of countries. Therefore, as a grand challenge (GC), its management requires adopting a systematic, interdisciplinary, and innovative approach. In Iran, the most common ca...

In this research, a systematic review was conducted to assess the impact of complexity and chaos theory on understanding and explaining the development and evolution of innovation ecosystems. To this end, the theoretical foundations required for this study were collected by first reviewing the literature on these two theories. Then PRISMA protocol...

Companies have various strategies in front of them to meet their technological needs. In many cases, endogenous development of technology is not cost-effective and firms use other methods (both formal and informal) to transfer and acquire technology. Our studies show that so far no standard list of these methods has been provided in the literature...

The animation industry is currently undergoing significant transformations fueled by technological advancements. Emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Blockchain are reshaping the animation industry's value chain. This paper explores the...

Knowledge-based companies are a representative for innovative activities in the region, and its uneven distribution is considered one of the factors of the innovation gap between regions. This research examines the uneven development of knowledge-based companies in the provinces of the country,. In this regard, the functions that are necessary for...

Electronic governance is used to empower citizens and help governments and organizations with strategic decision-making or policy-making. E-democracy and e-participation methods are essential tools used to engage citizens in decision-making. One of the recent e-democracy models is known as e-cognocracy. While having advantages relative to tradition...

Different regional innovation profiles have forced policymakers to engage in innovation policymaking at the sub-national level. As a regional approach, smart specialization has recently received attention in various contexts, focusing on stimulating innovation according to each region's existing capabilities and prospects. Although this strategy be...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the importance and effect of asymmetric technological collaborations’ key success factors in developing countries. The number of collaborations between large enterprises and SMEs, known as asymmetric technological collaborations (ATC) is growing considerably. But this asymmetry in itself can increase the numbe...

Extended Abstract Abstract The necessity to comprehend the phenomenon of innovation and its complexities, has made researchers to make use of different metaphors such as system, ecosystem, factory, maze, cluster, chain, network, etc. to understand this phenomenon. Recently, biome as a new metaphor has been borrowed from the field of ecology for inn...

Purpose Fintechs are expected to develop rapidly as technologies that help improve the efficiency of the traditional financial system, but an examination of fintech subbranches shows different behaviors. In some sub-branches, the transition has been accompanied by a higher speed and more success, but in some other sub-branches, the opposite has bee...

Payment technology or paytech is one of the largest sub-sectors of fintech and focuses on the movement of money within the country. the transition from traditional services to innovative services has many advantages, but in terms of establishing international relations, protecting users, and also the environment in which the startup business operat...

Payment technology or paytech is one of the largest sub-sectors of fintech and focuses on the movement of money within the country. the transition from traditional services to innovative services has many advantages, but in terms of establishing international relations, protecting users, and also the environment in which the startup business operat...

Extended Abstract Abstract Today, digital solutions are used to facilitate wealth management processes, which is referred to as wealth management technology (Wealthtech). Wealthtech have led to a change in the traditional socio-technical regime, which is explained by the concept of transition. This study aims to investigate the transition with the...

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...

Objective: The insurance industry is one of the indicators of development in the country. Insurance in Iran is facing the challenge of low penetration rate among the people. Thus, it needs to change the way of providing services and increase the attractiveness of the services in order to be welcomed by the people. Insurtechs are fintech companies t...

The present work tries to clearly explain the existing duality regarding the concept of scientific authority ("marjiyat") among politicians and policy researchers in the field of science policy by reviewing the existing articles and research works and to specify the characteristics of each of the opposite points of view in order to make science pol...

The evolution of science, technology, and innovation Policy (STIP) studies has been marked by the emergence and decline of various intellectual streams regarding the innovation process and the role of government. These streams are known as STIP generations or paradigms and have undergone changes in perspective on innovation across different histori...

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...

With the recent events on the international scene, such as the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, the US-centric unipolar order that has dominated the world in the past two decades has faced serious risks, and the world is now on the verge of a new order. Human-centered technologies that have emerged to help solve social problem...

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...

With the recent events on the international scene, such as the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, the US-centric unipolar order that has dominated the world in the past two decades has faced serious risks, and the world is now on the verge of a new order. Human-centered technologies that have emerged to help solve social problem...

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...