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A Technological Assessment of Iranian Manufacturing Industries:An Application of Discriminant Analysis
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Mohamad ali Feizpour   , Masoomeh Allahyari * , Alireza Naser Sadrabadi |
| Yazd University |
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| In economic and management literature there are different criterions to determine the level of technology in firms and manufacturing industries. In this respect, the R&D intensity is an acceptedrelative criterion to define the technology level, but there are evidences showing that thiscriterion is not so effective in manufacturing industries of Iran where R&D doesn’t have a significant share. So, this paper trys to determine the level of technology in Iranian industrial firms by defining a new and different indexe. This index is composed of the two other criterions including the green energies share in firms' energy consumption and the distance between the firm's production and its Minimum Efficient Scale (MES)..To determine the green energy we used the share of electricity and gas consumption from the total energy and to define the industry MES using Comanor-Wilson method and product value criterion.The results of this paper show that using the defined ordered index for manufacturing firms in Iran is the best illustrated in different level of technology in a real manner. |
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| Keywords: GreenEnergies, IranianManufacturingIndustries, MinimumEfficientScale, R&, D. |
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