About the Author

      Sten Thore was appointed Centennial Fellow of the University of Texas on the occasion of the centennial celebration of the University of Texas in 1983, and recognized as a Centennial Fellow Emeritus on his retirement, having served the university for 20 years. Moving to Lisbon, Portugal he was installed as a Luso-American professor in the Commercialization of Science and Technology at the Institute Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and eventually settled in the northern hills of the Algarve. Created Ph.D. Jubilarem by the University of Stockholm, Sweden, in 2012.

 

Major books published.

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In operations research:  

Economic Logistics: The Optimization of Spatial and Sectoral Resource, Production and Distribution Systems, Quorum, Westport 1991.

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On high tech capitalism: The Diversity, Complexity and Evolution of High Tech Capitalism, Kluwer, Boston 1995.

 

On Data Envelopment Analysis: Technology Commercialization: DEA and Related Analytical Methods for Evaluating the Use and Implementation of Technical Innovation, Kluwer, Boston 2nd ed 2012.

 

Ranking Nations by their Social and Economic performance.

      The early study B. Golany and S. Thore, «The competitiveness of nations» in IMPACT — Honoring George Kozmetsky's receipt of the National Medal of Technology, Greenwood, Westport 1997 was followed up by several papers by the same authors, and by S. Thore and R. Tarverdyan.

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More recently, two books survey the entire field:

 

S. Thore and R.Tarverdyan, Diagnostics for a Globalized World, Now publishers and World Scientific 2015,

 

S. Thore and R. Tarverdyan, Measuring the Sustainable Development Goals Performance of Nations Battling the Corona Pandemic, Elsevier Publishers, 2021.