Determination of the most suitable technology transfer strategy for wind turbines using an integrated AHP-TOPSIS decision model

Energies

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Dinmohammadi, A ^a   Shafiee, M ^b  

^a KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process (AHP); Design and manufacture; Multiple criteria decision making (MCDM); Technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS); Technology transfer; Wind turbine

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; COMPETITION; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINES;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP); DECISION MAKING MODELS; DESIGN AND MANUFACTURES; IDEAL SOLUTIONS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RENEWABLE ENERGY SECTOR; TECHNOLOGY-TRANSFER STRATEGY; WIND TURBINE TECHNOLOGY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 85035122498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en10050642     Document Type: Article

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