Science and Technology
See also: Science and technology in Iran| Name | Rank | Out of | Source | Notes | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global Innovation Index | 95 | 125 | INSEAD | Index measures enabling environment for innovation; More info: Ingenuity & Creativity | 2011 |
| Science & Technology Growth Rate | 1 | World | Science-Metrix Report / Science-Metrix country graph comparison / Government of United Kingdom | Highest science & technology growth rate in the world, 1000% increase in 9 years (1995–2004); Iran has increased its academic publishing output from 0.0003% of world's total output in 1970 to 0.29% by 2004 (That is ~100000% growth in 33 years), by 2008 Iran's share had reached 1.02% of the world's total output (~340000% growth in 37 years); Iran's 2009 growth rate in science & technology was highest globally being 11 times faster than the world's average rate; Iran has been doubling its scientific output every 3 years; In 2009 ranked at 22nd by total scientific output; 19th in mathematics output, 17th in computer science applications output, 15th in nuclear technology output; 28th in physics output; 16th in aerospace technology output; 17th in medicine output, 13th in chemistry output & 15th in nanotechnology output More info: Science in newly industrialized countries; Iranian scientific publications online digital archive | 2010 |
| Total Research & Development spending in PPP US dollars | 27 | World | United Nations | Iran spends 6.2 billion US dollars in PPP terms equaling to ~0.7% of its GDP (PPP), Iran has 500 scientists & tech personnel working in R&D sector for every one million of population; More info: Iran National Science Foundation & Science of science policy & Science policy & Technology Life Cycle & Iranian cities among world's science cities | 2010 |
| Research and development spending | 43 | 69 | World Bank | About 0.5% of GDP was spent on research and development in year 2000; Iran's spending on R&D is to reach 3% of GDP by 2015; Government funds 75% of all Research in Iran | 2000 |
| Research and development spending per capita | 58 | 69 | World Bank | 0.007351% of national GDP per 1 million people; More info: Emerging technologies | 2000 |
| Technology Achievement Index | 45 | 68 | United Nations | Technology Achievement Index measures creation of technology, diffusion of recent innovations, diffusion of old innovations & human skills; Iran's score: 0.26 out of 1; More info: Human capital | 2001 |
| Patents granted per capita | 56 | 60 | World Intellectual Property Organization | 0.014702 Patents per one million people; More info: Intellectual property in Iran & Technological determinism | 1998 |
| Highest budget national space agencies | 9 | World | List of space agencies | ISA with $500 million/Year has the 9th highest budget of a national space organization in the world | 2010 |
| First orbital launches by country | 9 | World | Timeline of first orbital launches by country | Iran is the 9th country to reach space; More info: Outer Space Treaty | 2010 |
| Biological space launch capability | 6 | World | Animals in space | Iran is the sixth country to have launched animals into space & recover them alive | 2010 |
| Total human spaceflight time by country | 21 | World | List of spaceflight records | Iran stands 21st in terms of total time spent by its nationals in space; Only one Iranian (Anousheh Ansari) has spent ~11 person-days in space as a space tourist; More info: Timeline of space travel by nationality | 2007 |
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“Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamics that present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become.”
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