Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management: Volume 11 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Abdol S. Soofi, Sepehr Ghazinoory

Policy coherence as a demand for excellence in Iranian bio-production industry

Vahid Marandi, Seyyed Habibollah Tabatabaeian, Parivash Jafari, Morteza Azarnoosh

The Iranian bio-pharma industry was the first high-tech industry in the country, which had succeeded to develop innovative products. Despite past successes, there are bottlenecks…

Evaluation of the effect of R&D subsidies on Iranian firms’ innovative behavior: Reconceptualizing behavioral additionality

Javad Soltanzadeh, Mehdi Elyasi, Esmaeil Ghaderifar, Hojat Rezaei Soufi, Mohsen Khoshsirat

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of government intervention on a firm's innovation activities.

Iranian firms in biopharmaceutical value chain: where to go now?

Masoud Afshari-Mofrad, Ali Salim

Motivated by the huge potential of biosimilars in the near future and rapid growth of Iranian biosimilar producing firms in recent two decades, this paper aims to explore the…

How to balance your technology sourcing portfolio in a developing country: The case study of Iran biopharmaceutical industry

Sajjad Shekarchian, Amir Albadvi

To gain the highest performance in technological efforts, firms have to balance their technology sourcing portfolio, i.e. they have to decide how to source the required technology…

Multi-level drivers of catching up in complex product systems: an Iranian gas turbine producer

Mostafa Safdari Ranjbar, Tae-Young Park, Soroush Ghazinoori, Manochehr Manteghi

This paper aims to investigate the pattern of technological capability building in the gas turbine industry as a complex product system (CoPS) in an Iranian gas turbine producer…

Innovation policy-making in the upstream oil and gas industry as a large technical system under economic transition

S. Sepehr Ghazinoory, Shiva Tatina, Mehdi Goodarzi

Innovation and technology development policy-making naturally encounters numerous uncertainties and complexities, especially in developing countries, for the sake of the…