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Cultural determinants of technology transfer - a case study in human resources planning for steel production

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Technology transfer (TT) is a highly complex problem in development cooperation. Case studies that ITB has conducted in various projects focusing on automobile and steel production as well as in the machine tool sector indicate that the multi-dimensionality of know-how transfer is often and greatly underestimated during the planning and implementation of TTs from one industrial “culture” to another. Greater insight and knowledge of the problems associated with know-how transfer in TT projects can only be obtained from case studies in which this generalised finding is subject to detailed investigation. To illustrate this, we report on the planning and implementation of two joint ventures in Iran, namely a Soviet and an Italian steel works.

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  1. This paper is based on the dissertation by D. Salari: Technologietransfer und Qualifikation. Untersucht am Beispiel der Planung und Implementation von zwei iranischen Stahlwerken, University of Bremen, 1999. (Technology Transfer and Training. Studied using the planning and implementation of two Iranian steel plants as an example)

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  1. Institute for Technology and Education, Bremen University, 28359 , Bremen, Germany

    Felix Rauner & Djavad Salari

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Rauner, F., Salari, D. Cultural determinants of technology transfer - a case study in human resources planning for steel production. AI & Soc 17, 266–277 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-003-0261-2

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