To improve the deployment and optimization of the industrial structure, researchers and practitioners have performed a variety of researches in terms of regional leading industry selection based on AO Hirschman, Rostow and Miyohei’s principles. The criteria and methods employed in previous studies are mainly based on the mass industrial development data, leading to the limitation of study on the application in new high-tech district and underdeveloped regions. Due to lack of industrial data and detail industry information, it is difficult to employ the deterministic regional industry selection model. Therefore, an extended fuzzy-VIKOR approach that the expert-based and trapezoidal fuzzy number decision-making techniques, embedded into the VIKOR steps is proposed. It is developed to solve the regional leading industry selection problems concerning industrial, economic, social and environmental dimensions. Finally, a case study for the industrial planning of a high-tech zone is applied to verify the proposed decision-making approach.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.