Impact of Technology Transfer Efficiency on Manufacturing SMEs Performance

Abstract

This study is relevant to investigate and address the problems and cultivate the possible policy recommendation related to the issues of Impacts of TT efficiency on manufacturing SMEs in respect to Ababa: Oliveira, D.M. and Teixeira, A.C. (2010) Efficiency in TT is a function of converting inputs to different products through all stakeholders. Different studies and literature have been reviewed in all of them: Research findings not as such on TT in manufacturing SME, in developing countries evidenced by Gulellat G. (2011) and Belete R. and Kassahun A. (2014). The study addressed the above problems using the appropriate theories like ITT, RBV, KBV, dynamic theory of organizational knowledge-creating, and others used. The objectives are to evaluate the overall efficiency level of technology transfer impact on the performance of selected wood and metal manufacturing SMEs of Addis Ababa City. Descriptive and explorative research designs were held on. Both deductive and inductive were used. The research was mixed (qualitative vs. qualitative). Data collection methods were held out primarily by observation, questionnaires, key-informant interviews, and unstructured interviews. The result of the study is technology transferring efficiency has a direct impact on all the absorbing capacity, and prior memory levels in manufacturing SMEs in those selected wood, and metal manufacturing SMEs in key stockholders; improper linkages in the three bodies have determined with challenges like poor access for technology; irrelevant technology-related training. newlineFinally, the researcher concludes TT efficiency has an impact on the performances of the wood and metalwork manufacture SMEs, while there is a poor tie, unsmooth backward as well as forward linkage with the regulatory body with the industry extension program of TVET agency of Ethiopia and with the technology used that are the nearby community/customers. So far, due that the researcher was proposed a model that strengthened harmony through forward and backward linkages of a modern technology transfer efficiency model (MTTEM) which contribute to the fair play of competition and cooperation for major actors of SMEs, industry peace in the short-run and development in Ethiopia on the long run. newline