The system of higher education inherited by the Republic of Turkey in 1923, consisted of a few hundred Ottoman vintage (Islamic) madrasas and three military academies, one of which was expanded into an engineering school. With secularization enshrined in its constitution, the new government...

The policies of the Ottoman Empire and of its successor the republic of Turkey, have always considered technology transfer (TT) from abroad to be an important means for development. In late 18th century, the Ottoman Empire transferred some technology to improve its army. Contemporaneously there...

This paper develops a taxonomy of objectives and methods used to do research on research or meta-research (MR) in operations research and the management sciences (OR/MS). Using this taxonomy, most MR type papers published in refereed OR/MS journals are identified and classified. The resulting...

America has a long and rich history of transferring technology (TT), from government laboratories and agencies to the private sector as a matter of national policy. This policy dates back to the Morrill Act of 1862 creating the Land Grant Universities and in turn the Agricultural Extension...

This paper relates the classical Charnes, Cooper and Rhodes' (CCR) model in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the Weak Axiom of Profit Maximization (WAPM) in Firm Theory. Varian's (1990) firm theory analysis is extended from a single firm to multiple firms. This allows deriving the classical...

Until 1948 the year Israel gained independence from Britain, its land was mostly barren, sparsely populated, and its agriculture performed by small communes of inexperienced farmers. Its manufacturing was cottage industry in format. Over the years, Israeli universities and institutes have...

This paper uses a game-theoretic framework to suggest the fair value for information extracted via data mining and shared between two retail-market competitors. Neither competitor has a dominant position in that market. For mutual benefit, the two players each owning a privileged information set...

Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has been used in the practice of Operations Research/ Management Science (OR/MS) since the early 70s. In the 90s it emerged as a viable academic discipline. Unfortunately, its proponents have articulated a dichotomy or mutual exclusivity between their approach and...

Illegal transfer of technology (ITT) is one of the major policy formulation, industrial management, and law enforcement issues of this decade. It includes industrial espionage, the piracy of; software, logos, and hardware designs and it overlaps with issues of terrorism and those involving...

Content analysis was performed on the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) literature appearing in refereed journals. The extant DEA literature, reported in Gattoufi et al.1 was subdivided in two ways. The first considers all articles appearing during the life-cycle of 22 selected major DEA...