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R&D survey in Iran
Statistical Centre of Iran
Department of Cultural,
Trade and Services Statistics
Background
We started to carry out the R&D Survey jointly with
Research
Department
of
Management
and
Planning
Organization from 1995. It took two years to establish the first
survey.
Methodology
Target Population
Section
ISIC 3.1
Volume of
Population
Notes
Manufacturing
15 - 37
1267
Establishments with more
than 50 employees and R&D
sector
Research and
Development
73
642
Higher Education
803
466
Except the Universities of
Applied Science and
Technology
And Payame -Noor
Survey Type
Sub-Population
Survey Type
Manufacturing
Census
Research and Development
Census
Higher Education
Census
Notes
Base on target population
Sector Coverage
Sub-Population
Survey Type
Business enterprises
Almost complete
Higher Education
Complete
Government
Partial
Private /non-profit
Partial
Notes
Lack of statistical frame
with sector characteristics
Definitions and Concepts
R&D
Activities
Source
Type of R&D
Frascati
Notes
Definitions and Concepts
R&D Personnel
Source
occupation
Frascati
formal qualification
Level
ISCED 97
formal qualification
field of education
Domestic
Headcount /
Full-time equivalence
Frascati
Notes
Comparable with ISCED
Definitions and Concepts
Expenditures
Type of expenditure
Source
Frascati
Notes
Science, Technology and
Innovation Indicators in Iran
• The SCI in collaboration with some organizations,
SCI has made a committee to define indicators and
identify their sources.
• In this committee we work jointly with Vice
Presidency for Science and Technology, Ministry of
Science, Research, and Technology; Ministry of
Health and some other organizations….
The SCI is able to define more
than 36 indicators in 6 groups
1. Human Resources
2. Scientific Publications
3. Innovation
4. The Cost of R&D
5. Technology
6. International Corporations
Human Resources
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Number of educated in each field of study
Number of lecturers per 1 million people
Number of fulltime researchers
And …..
Scientific Publications
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Number of scientific articles
Number of Citations per Publications
Number of research project
And …
Innovation
• Country’s income from license selling
• Number of knowledge- Based companies
The Expenditure of R&D
• Rate of R&D expenditure to GDP by education
and research ( private and public)
Technology
• Rate of Iranian inventions to global inventions
• GDP of the rate of commercial Patents to all
patents
International Corporations
• Number of joint articles (national and
international)
• Number of joint researches
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