The Interpretive-Structural Model for Prioritize the Relationship among Effective Factors on Science Development, Technology Development and Economic Growth in Iran

It is of great importance to create and spread science and technology within the borders of a country to facilitate economic growth. To do so, in recent years, Iranian policy makers and related institutions put their efforts to prepare a suitable environment for science and technology development toward economic growth in all aspects. In spite of these efforts and also clarifying some of the effective factors on science and technology development toward economic growth in 1404 vision document, divergence of the responsible institutions and also, lack of a consensus on these factors, are challenges which face the field. To investigate the factors affecting science development, technology development and economic growth, thorough literature review have done and opinions of 14 experts were applied to rate and model the relationship among the studied fields in Iran using Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) technique in MATLAB software. The results showed that economic-political convergence variable has a key role in the relationship of the three studied fields. In other words, if policy makers draw their attentions to this key variable and have integration, they can handle the whole players of the fields toward development.