1 March 2015 - 11:11
  • News ID: 236166
Knowledge Based Economy Should Replace Oil

TEHRAN March 01(Shana)--Weaning the country's economy from oil revenues needs a firm determination for moving toward innovation, Iran’s vice president for science and technology Sorena Sattari said.

Sattari said in the past things like knowledge-based economy and knowledge-based companies, commercialization and making brand were not very clear concepts but now technology sphere of the country is heading toward getting familiar with these concepts and attain them.

"Today we should move toward changing the old approach in the realm of research, a kind of approach which has been created based on reliance on oil revenues and has influenced research environment of the country," Sattari said.  

Changing the old habits needs firm determination for moving toward innovation by Iranian enterprises because reliance on mere oil revenues in research and technology has led to creation of luxury but inefficient infrastructures in the country and that is why we should leave behind a kind of culture which is based on dependency on oil economy, the official added. 

He said expertise and skilled human resources make up the back bone of knowledge-based economy, adding today the country faces a big and exceptional opportunity to move toward materialization of knowledge-based economy and distance itself from oil-dependent economy.   

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