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The 14th International Symposium on Operations Research in Slovenia (SOR'17), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27 September 2017, pp.302-307
In this study, technology management, technology competency and innovation management
issues are examined by taking into account literature and manufacturing enterprises. The technology
literature is investigated and reviewed for obtaining an evaluation framework. The proposed framework
is structured based on the main criteria and decision variables based on literature review. The aim of
the study is evaluating the technology management performances of SMEs to make the comparisons
between firms from different clusters. K-means cluster analysis is applied on the survey data to analyse
and evaluate the performances of manufacturing enterprises in Istanbul, Turkey. As a result, technology
competency levels of the enterprises are determined in three, four and five clusters types.