Tacit Knowledge and Endogenous Technological Transfer in Iran

The Category, "making indigenous technologies" is not possible by buying its hardware only. So as an important issue toward developing the capabilities, why some countries could pass the obstacles and make progress, and some other countries like Iran are still undeveloped, need to be reviewed. In this article by using the institutionalism model especially the view of this model toward economic performance during the history and its theory about production organization, we have examined the situation localization technology in Iran.This article is based on descriptive- analytical research methods, for describing, we have used the statistic data from official resources, and for analyzing the institutionalism theoretical mechanism toward measuring the role of tacit knowledge and human assets have been examined. to examine the Iran's success in localizing technology, we have studied the import share of intermediate and capital goods (as a proxy for technology imports) with respect to changes in the value added of the industrial sector during development programs (1368-1393).The findings indicate that the failure to achieve localization of technology in the country. For development, it should be noted that organizational capacities are gradual and cumulative and to be provided institutional required on technology transfer and institutional reform is prior to the transfer of technology.