Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• Elham Moghadam nia ¹
• Abbas Toloei ashlaghi ²
• Mohammad ali Afshar kazemi ³

¹ PhD, Technological Management Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

² Faculty member, Faculty of Management and Economics, Industrial Management Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Faculty member, Faculty of Management, Industrial Management Department, Tehran Center Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Trained human resources as the main factor in technology transfer, and education development as a supporting system play a major role in successful technology implementation. In order to achieve par excellence, organizations should develop proper educational capabilities as a competitive advantage, and education development in technology transfer helps these organizations to have a superior performance. The aim of the present study is to present an optimized change model resulting from education development in technology transfer of human resources in learning organizations. This study is descriptive in method and applied in purpose. In this study, system configuration for optimizing the model was done by MATLAB. After running the software program, the learning organization which trains human resources by technology transfer was analyzed by encoding and formulating the model using particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The results showed that different scenarios were optimized by PSO algorithm in search of solution space to train human resources by technology transfer. In technology transfer, by optimizing human resource training (professional production forces, technicians, skilled workers, and regular workers), the expenses of the learning organizations can be reduced over time. Paying attention to human resource training contributes to fruitful technology transfer function. 

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Keywords

• Technology transfer
• production factors
• Metaheuristic algorithm
• Human resource training
• Learning organizations