فصلنامه سیاست علم و فناوری
سال سیزدهم شماره 1 (پیاپی 45، بهار 1399)

Today, the importance of shaping innovation area as a new model in the geography of innovation countries is emphasized. Areas are referred to as an innovation hubs and innovation districts. This research focusing on identifying innovation areas and describes the concept of “innovation clusters”. A new phenomenon which better describes the mechanism of innovation areas. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the formation of innovation clusters in Iran. The present study utilized a qualitative method with a grounded theory approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with 14 experts familiar with innovative ecosystems, some of whom were directly involved in the formation of innovation area in the country. The results of this paper show that the shaping factors are divided into two categories: hard factors and soft factors. These factors could be classified under causal, intervention and contextual conditions and its results lead to the formation of a dynamic ecosystem of diverse actors focused on different technologies, and the most important strategic factor between them is innovative communication and partnerships. Other important results of this paper include the role of the facilitator in the formation and development of innovation clusters, which is responsible for managing the innovative ecosystem in the cluster.

Nowadays, all aspects of human life are influenced by the advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). Education and learning are also among areas that have been greatly affected by ICT and the speed of its growth. This affectability results in the creation of a new concept, called e-learning. In this paper, we first define the basic concepts of learning. Then, describing the trajectory of the technological course of distance education, we explain the technological background of e-learning and express how ICT affects the formation of personalized intelligent learning. Evolution of distance education can be divided into six generations: correspondence education, audio-visual education, computer-assisted education, web-based education, e-learning 1, and (social) e-learning 2. Additionally, we address to the researches in e-learning through the examination of published papers in e-learning. Our investigation shows the increasing interest of researchers to technological issues of e-learning as well as attempting to match different information technology appearances to it. Scientific problems around e-learning are interesting for many researchers, and solving each of them helps to the evolution of e-learning from some aspect. E-learning, as the most sensible effect of modern information and communication technologies on education and because of its effects on the mind and behaviour of the learners, is so important that ignoring policy making on it makes it impossible to exploit the advantages of applying these technologies in education, increases the costs in future of education, and also widens the gap between education system and citizens of information era.

identification and explanation of the technological change. On the other hand, the development of renewable energy technologies in each country according to its native conditions has different requirements and depends on a range of social and technical factors. The present study analyzes the development of photovoltaic technology from the perspective of expectations, networks, and learning, with the approach of strategic niche management and in the form of historical case studies and qualitative research methods. Data gathering tools are semi-structured interviews and secondary data and the method of data analysis is through content analysis and axial coding. The statistical population for the expert interview is experienced in solar energy in Iran and 20 experts have been selected and interviewed by the snowball technique. Its temporal territory is between 1991 and 2019, and its spatial territory is Iran. Examining the Interaction between niche processes, it was shown that although the network of actors was weaknesses in the early 1991s, with over time and the Enforcement of supportive laws and policies such as feed-in tariff and support for the development of renewable energy technologies, it has finally led to the growth of the network of educational and knowledgeable actors in the mid-2000s and the growth of the network of production and service actors in the 2010s. The impact of important events such as JCPOA and foreign investment on the development of expectations and the network of photovoltaic actors has also been described.

The market-based higher education development policy has been an alternative policy for the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology because of the university budget constraints. The increasing number of universities and higher education centers in the country and the increasing number of undergraduate and postgraduate students are evidence of this. With regard to the purpose of this study which analyzes the antecedents and consequences of the formation of the market-based higher education policy in Iran, deep and semi-structured interviews were conducted by scientific and practical experts in the Higher education system of the cities of Tehran and Isfahan between 2016-2018, and finally, seven antecedents: the origins, structural-political factors, background-cultural factors, professional-specialized factors, philosophical-existential factors, economic-market factors, financial-budgetary factors; and four consequences: deficiency in the academy, social problems, functional problems, and positive effects were extracted and named. Then their validity was confirmed through qualitative methods of credibility. The results of this research can provide guidelines for the leaders, policy-makers, and managers of the country's higher education and help to develop theoretical knowledge in the field of higher education policy-making.

One of the key issues in the global economy is the extent to which global change creates opportunities for developing countries to prosper. The school of neoclassical economics has emphasized on catch-up, yet it has considered the policies and strategies of catching up to be the same for all countries. With the emergence of evolutionary economics, this perspective has changed. It led to the interest of pursuing technological advancement in developing countries and even to surpass developed ones in terms of technological catch-up studies. These studies, in light of global developments, have changed and evolved over history. In this regard, this article examines the trend of technological catch-up studies. In the present study 92 articles were extracted from 21 prestigious journals in the period of 58 years (1962- 2020). Based on the Meta-Synthesis method, two main paths of "Low road" and "High road" were identified in technological catch-up studies in the literature, and the characteristics of each of them were extracted and compared based on existing literature. The findings suggest that the process of technological catch-up studies is moving towards sustainability transitions with an emphasis on opening up windows of endogenous opportunity, through the management of a set of activities for the development of socio-technical regimes, and based on Technological innovation systems analysis to create more proactive responses from follower countries. Finally, suggestions have been made for future studies of technological catch- up.

Recruiting insiders as a way of recruitment which universities try to employ their graduates has a long history. So, the aim of the present study was to investigate status of Iran's old universities about attracting and recruiting the graduates of insider at university and also, provide an integrated wisdom about graduates of insider to thinkers and policymakers of higher edcuation with using a qualitative research synthesis. Therefore, in initially all keywords around insiders were emerged and then special databases. A total of 48 studies were identified and 29 twenty-nine of them were selected purposefully as sample. In the second section, researchers chose 4 Iran's old universities by cluster sampling as sample. To quality control of the data, CASP checklist was conducted and also, code reliability was used to integrate the data. To analyze the data, conductive content analysis was conducted. The results of first section showed that we can view recruiting insiders based on two themes which are challenges and opportunities. The challenges are academic development challenge; professional development challenge; academic chauvinism growth in recruitment and employment; individual communication development challenge; inter-university communication development challenge. In addition, opportunities are the structural-cultural development of the university, the structural-cultural advantages and the economic advantages. Also the results of second section showed that there is higher percentage the graduates of insider in Iran's old universities.