JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
Year:2016 | Volume:8 | Issue:3|Papers Count:6

Doubtless, becoming a developed country with the first stage in economic, science and technology at the regional level requires management and direction of science, research and technology (SRT) on the correct direction. Several institutions by policy making in this area play an effective role in the directing and managing of SRT, which the most important of them are: the Expediency Discernment Council, Supreme Revolutionary Cultural Council, Parliament and especially the Commission of Education and Research and the Deputy of Science and Technology of president. Despite the adoption of multiple policies in this area, there are several obstacles in the way of their implementation and many of these policies are not implemented completely or are released. The aim of this study is to identify and explain the obstacles to the implementation of SRT policies. Research carried out in qualitative approach and data’s needed to conduct research has been gathered using interviews with experts (Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, directors and deputies of universities and some experts in this field). Snowball sampling was conducted and data analyzed using thematic analysis. According to the findings, 25 factors identified as barriers in five main components: obstacles arising from the performance of the policy making institutions, structural and managerial barriers, barriers due to the nature of problems of SRT, barriers due to implementers’ performance and environmental barriers.

This study examined the faculty members’ views about the assessment of world-class university components in the Iran comprehensive universities. The statistical population consisted of all faculty members in the Iran General Universities. Given the great number of the population, the comprehensive universities were categorized in five clusters (North, South, East, West and Center), then we selected the faculty members from different clusters with using Cochran's formula. A total of 367 faculty members were selected from five clusters. For data gathering, a researcher-designed questionnaire was used. In data analysis, statistical procedures including the Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Kolmogrov- Smirnov test, one sample t-test, and Friedman test were conducted. The findings of research showed that except the academic freedom, other components of world-class university in Iran comprehensive universities were lower than mean.

Faculty members as one of the crucial human capitals each university, can play an important role for this purpose. And when, a faculty can play a more effective role in the international engagements that he has the necessary competencies in this filed. Thus, the purpose of present research was the presenting a pattern for faculty members’ competency in the international engagements. To achieve the purpose, the qualitative approach through phenomenological method was used. The statistical populations were included experts in field of higher education in Iran, which selected 21 people as participants in the research by purposive sampling. The research instrument was semi–structured interview and also, data analyses method was qualitative inductive content analysis. Validity was confirmed through techniques such as member checking, and peer checking. Findings showed that conceptual pattern of faculty members’ competency in the international engagements included six competencies; scientific, professional, communicational, cross-cultural, metacognitive and intellectual.

The purpose of this study is to present a conceptual model of commercialization of academic research achievements (Constituent elements and factors); it neglected aspects of this phenomenon will cover as much as possible and stakeholders involved in this area enable to answer questions. This study is applied and the method is qualitative. The population examined in this study is state industrial Colleges in Tehran. The sample consisted of 55 personalities and entities (including 20 Knowledge-based companies with academic origin, 22 faculty members and 13 experts engaged in commercial activity in this area). The sample was selected using purposive sampling. The finding is a conceptual model consists of individual, internal, external, and connecting factors and model’s components are academic spin-off, technology license, Sale of technology, and services. The superiority of this model compared to current models is the introduction of the academic goalkeeper. This factor plays an important role in the relationship between universities and industry information asymmetry.

Ranking is one of the key tools for performance evaluation, competitiveness and success of universities. A desirable ranking is emanated from the core mission of higher education. In this paper, the upstream documents related to the higher education, as communicated strategies, are extracted and the corresponding texts surveyed by content analysis through the selection of binding statements for universities as well as open and axial coding. From 241 statements, 36 main codes are extracted and grouped in six categories. For axial coding, basic functions of universities were considered. To extract appropriate mesures, the resulted axial codes are used. Then, we propose 6 categories of mesures and corresponding concepts for Iranian university ranking including educational, research & development, social & cultural impact, entrepreneurship & wealth creation, help for sustainable development, and international interactions. The results confirm that the most effective code in each of the above criteria is demand-driven research, demand-driven education, Islamic values, sustainale development, and international interactions, respectively.

This study sought to investigate the interactions of University, Industry and Government in science and technology, scientific production in the country during 1985-2015.In this study, the triple helix model is used to determine the relationship between university, industry and government, scientific production in the field of science and technology. Accordingly all articles during this period with at least one address of Iran, including 267097 articles in the field of science and technology were extracted and studied through Web of Science.Iranian scientific productions in the field of science and technology had an upward trend during the mentioned time. The mutual interactions between university-government, had the highest value and the lowest value accounted industry-government interactions. T value (three dimension relationship) of university, industry and government has been decreasing in the last three decades and has trended toward zero during recent years.The strong association between university, industry and government, a flourishing industry and technology in the country. Unfortunately, in terms of scientific production, that is an indicator of relationship between these three organs, a good situation cannot be seen in the country. Undoubtedly, investments and implementation of sustainable policies for strengthening of the relations between the three organs, and efforts to eliminate barriers to cooperation of these pillars will follow positive results and a dramatic increase in triple helix indicators in scientific production in the country.