خلاصة:
The experiences by different societies reveal that consistent social and economic development results from the development of science and technology, and that the latter takes place only in a process that includes: comprehensive policy making; precise planning; determining relevant strategies and finally the effective implementation of plans in different areas. Providing a clear picture of science and technology status is an essential requirement of this process. For this reason, this paper seeks to discuss, as far as possible, different aspects of S&T in Iran based on a rather comprehensive set of indicatorsi.e. Human Resources indicators, Financial indicators, Performance indicators and finally Productivity indicators. The objective is to review. based on ihe information available, the changes occurred during the years 1996, 1998 and 2000. Also, statistics of S&T in Iran ts compared with those of other countries.
ملخص الجهاز:
In fact, these advantages have made assessment an important process in any kind of development, and this well justifies why different countries, international organizations and private institutions Janoqry/June, 2005 Iranian Journal of Information Science & Technology, Volume 3, Numher 1 are using it so often and are benefited its results.
Using the statistics issued by Iran's Census Bureau about research and development centers in 1997, 1999 and the year 2001 [12,13,14), and the Government's Performance Report, the Law and the Budget Report, etc.
Iranian Journal of Information Science & Ternnology, Volume 3, Number I January/June, 2005 Table 1: Human resources indicators data.
One of the most important human resources indicators regarding the country's Macro Assessment of Science and Technology has been the numbcr of researchers per million population.
Iranian Journal of Information Seienee •fi Technology, Volume 3, Number I January/June, 200S On the contrary, there have been 537 and 946 researchers in Asian countries and the world during the same period.
However, Iranian Journal of Information Science & Technology, Volume 3, Number 1 January/June, 2005 considering the rate of inflation in the country, it could only be claimed that we have just had a 42% increase for the year 2000, compared to 1990.
As indicated in Table 5, the two areas of Engineering and Technology as well as Agriculture, ranked first and second with respect to the number of articles published in foreign journals.