1. R&D survey in Iran Statistical Centre of Iran Department of Cultural, Trade and Services Statistics

2. 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.

3. Methodology SectionISIC 3.1Volume of Population Notes Manufacturing15 - 371267Establishments with more than 50 employees and R&D sector Research and Development 73642 Higher Education803466Except the Universities of Applied Science and Technology And Payame -Noor Target Population

4. Survey Type Sub-PopulationSurvey TypeNotes ManufacturingCensus Base on target population Research and DevelopmentCensus Higher EducationCensus

5. Sector Coverage Sub-PopulationSurvey TypeNotes Business enterprisesAlmost complete Lack of statistical frame with sector characteristics Higher EducationComplete GovernmentPartial Private /non-profitPartial

6. Definitions and Concepts R&D Activities SourceNotes Type of R&DFrascati

7. Definitions and Concepts R&D PersonnelSourceNotes occupationFrascati formal qualification Level ISCED 97 formal qualification field of education DomesticComparable with ISCED Headcount / Full-time equivalence Frascati

8. Definitions and Concepts ExpendituresSourceNotes Type of expenditureFrascati

9. Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in Iran

10. 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….

11. 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

12. Human Resources Number of educated in each field of study Number of lecturers per 1 million people Number of fulltime researchers And …..

13. Scientific Publications Number of scientific articles Number of Citations per Publications Number of research project And …

14. Innovation Country’s income from license selling Number of knowledge- Based companies

15. The Expenditure of R&D Rate of R&D expenditure to GDP by education and research ( private and public)

16. Technology Rate of Iranian inventions to global inventions GDP of the rate of commercial Patents to all patents

17. International Corporations Number of joint articles (national and international) Number of joint researches

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