As the technology credit fund is available to support SMEs which have intangible technology assets, many organizations are involved in technology evaluation with various factors. Technology evaluation has worth when the evaluation result can be related to financial performances of the recipient of credit funds. In this study, we propose a structural equation model (SEM) to analyze the relations...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing number of health-care systems using economic evaluations to inform decisions about the reimbursement of health technologies. There are usually two separate elements of this process: assembling relevant evidence and undertaking analyses (technology assessment), and decision-making. In most systems, technology assessment is undertaken by the manufacturer of the t...

High-technology projects are known as tools that help achieving productive forces through scientific and technological knowledge. These knowledge-based projects are associated with high levels of risks and returns. The process of high-technology project and project portfolio selection has technical complexities and uncertainties. This paper presents a novel two-parted method of high-technology ...

the aim of this study was comparative evaluation of iran scientific output in the field of food science and technology with five countries including ireland, turkey, egypt, argentina and malaysia during 1990-2010 in the web of science. the number of indexing scientific outputs in this database show that ireland, argentina and turkey ranked sequentially. articles have the largest share of scient...

This article reviews the developments in HTA in four countries, France, The Netherlands, Sweden, and United Kingdom, in relation to public health. It emphasizes that the majority of assessments made are concerned with individual clinical care rather than with the optimization of health. Possible reasons for the neglect of public health issues are that these are inherently more complex than the ...

Coverage policies, elaboration of clinical guidelines, and health services evaluation and management are increasingly dependent on formal technology assessments in developed countries. The objective of this study was to identify methodological and operational barriers, as well as strategies to enhance technology assessment activities, with a focus on Brazil. Methodological limitations to the el...