Abstract

The food industry is more and more in need of importing and absorption new technologies. Focusing on all the possible issues of contradiction and difficulty to improve the digestion and absorption of novel manufacturing technology, a set of customized dynamic quantitative evaluation models were put forward that made it easy to model and supervise the usages, digestion and absorption of novel manufacturing technology in food enterprises. According to the proposed set of evaluation models, anyone could comprehensively analyze the food enterprises’ technology import, digestion and absorption and even re-innovation capabilities from many aspects. The models and strategy discussed here are highly operable and objectively profitable to insure the dynamic evaluation of the digestion and absorption of technology imported in food enterprises.

Keywords:

Digestion and absorption, evaluation, modeling, novel manufacturing technology, similarity theory, technology import,

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