Nowadays, technology is a key element in economic, industrial, and commercial development, and investment in development, expansion, and adoption of new technologies has been considered as the engine for the development and globalization of economic enterprises throughout years. In the industrial world of today, technology is of the factors specifying the success and failure of organizations. Given the importance of technology in the competitive ability of technological firms, technology management, as one of the branches of management, has had a significant development. Technology management studies planning, managing, and development of activities, technology transfer, innovation and technology management are to gain competitive advantage, and discuss important knowledge and experience of management in this regard. Thus, the discovery of barriers affecting technology transfer and determining the importance of each of these factors is important. The present study used experts' opinions to identify the barriers affecting the technology transfer and providing solutions for its transfer in Persian Gulf Ship Building Complex (PGSBC). The population of the study was 10 managers of PGSBC in Bandar Abbas. Chang's fuzzy hierarchical process analysis technique was used to prioritize the barriers affecting technology transfer. According to this, ineffective and non-efficient management, lack of attention to research and development activities, lack of close cooperation between the research center and industry, inability of the parties in technology transfer, lack of government support, lack of attention to internal absorption capacities, and lack of market access ranked 1 to 7, respectively in this regard.
