TY - BOOK AU - Soofi,Abdollah Siavash AU - Ghazinoory,Sepehr TI - Science and innovations in Iran: development, progress, and challenges SN - 978-1-137-03009-2 U1 - 338.9260955 23E PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Palgrave Macmillan KW - Technological innovations / Government policy / Iran KW - Technology / Iran KW - Science and state / Iran N1 - Notes bibliogr; The history of science in Iran from a physicist's perspective / Reza Mansouri -- From developing a higher education system to moving toward a knowledge-based economy: a short history of three decades of STI policy in Iran / Mehdi Goodarzi, Soroush Ghazinoori -- The National Innovation System of Iran: a functional and institutional analysis / Abdol S. Soofi, Sepehr Ghazinoory, Sanam Farnoodi -- Information and communication technology: between a rock and a hard place of domestic and international pressures / Sepehr Ghazinoory, Reza Jamali -- Nanotechnology: new horizons, approaches and challenges / Fatemah Salehi Yazdi, Mohammad Ali Bahreini Zarj -- Biotechnology in Iran: a study of the structure and functions of the Technology Innovation System / Tahereh Miremadi -- Nuclear technology: progress in the midst of severe sanctions / Behzad Soltani, Marzieh Shaverdi -- Iran's aerospace technology / Parviz Tarikhi, Mohammad Abbassi, Maryann Ashrafi -- The automotive industry: new trends, approaches, and challenges / Manochehr Manteghi ER -