Providing an approach to identify and prioritize technology valuation methods in knowledge-based companies
Subject Areas : Strategies for attracting foreign investors for knowledge-based businesses
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محمدرضا جعفری
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Attracting capital in knowledge-based companies in order to manage costs and increase the income that these companies can have has raised the valuation of this company to an important issue from the point of view of entrepreneurs or founders as well as investors. The method of data collection in this survey is field and library. In this research, a comprehensive approach to identify and prioritize the valuation methods of these companies in the technology group, taking into account the reviewed criteria, is presented to unify the views of investors and entrepreneurs, along with the strengths and weaknesses of the final method. . For this purpose, first by reviewing the research literature, all the important and practical valuation methods of these companies have been extracted. In the next step, the effective criteria in the evaluation have been evaluated by the experts with the fuzzy Delphi method according to their application and the ability to implement different methods. Then, the importance of the criteria was determined using the fuzzy hierarchical analysis method. In order to determine the points of the methods in the criteria and also to determine the weaknesses and strengths of the methods, the fuzzy topsis method has been used. According to the results obtained in the technology valuation group, the trading option method with a relative distance of 0.58619 is approved and introduced as a suitable method according to the criteria required by entrepreneurs and investors. Finally, suggestions for improving the final method, trading options, in developing suitable .