Investigating the Social Construction of Thinkings in the Filed of Technology and Innovation Management and Policy Making in Iran

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1 Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Management and Economics, Sharif University of Technology,Tehran, Iran

2 PhD Student of Science and Technology Policy, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

It is about 15 years since the filed of technology and innovation management is established in Iran and following that, the field of technology and innovation policy is started from a decade ago. In both levels of M.S. and Ph.D., the courses and programmes have been started focusing in universities located within Tehran, mainly in faculties of Management or Economics. The aim of this paper is to explore the social contruction of these fileds to explore the thinking and viewpoints of their active people. We defined them as the main author of the papers in three main Persian journals, i.e. science and technology policy quarterly, management of technology development and management of innovation. We developed a conceptual framework for this purpose and data gathering has been conducted through online questionares. The analysis of data reveals that there is a convergence between the local community and international community in terms of knowing the context such as prominent figures and schools, while there is large gap in areas have more to do with content and concepts.

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Journal of Science and Technology Policy
Volume 9, Issue 4
January 2017
Pages 49-62

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