The process of economical improvement with focusing on science requires infrastructures to commercialize research achievements, facilitate exchanges and, transferring the technology correctly. Techno marts, are one of the means that recently have been employed to facilitate the technology improving activities and also, to clear and reinforce the market of technology in the world. Furthermore, technomarts are trying to assist to create or to more activating the different sectors, engaged with the subjects of commercialization, exchange and improving the technology.

Subsequently to the ever-increasing significance of technomarts far as a strong medium for improvement and exchanging technology, the idea of establishing a technomart in Iran happened in 2002. Considering no other similar experience in the country, at the same time, it commenced to study in vast scales at Pardis Technology Park which in 2004 resulted in determining a proper practical model, concerning the country's conditions and infrastructures for practicing in Iran.

National Technomart of Iran, supervised by Pardis Technology Park and, as the sole reference of technology information of the country, has been established aiming to meet the information requirements of people who are engaged with commercializing technology and, technology exchange and also, to assist solving the problems of commercializing the innovations.

For the next step, the executing actions including; designing technology database, website, CD representing products and plan of Technomart building came into concern.

At the present time, National Technomart of Iran has been established as the first and biggest technology database in the country and, has set the management of technology market as its main duty.

The goals of this Techno mart are:

National Technomart of Iran consists of three main departments; Virtual, Supporting and Physical department.

The virtual department includes media tools for providing information about the technologies produced in the country and its technological demands. These tools are; website, virtual exhibition of hi-tech products, fairs and etc. The physical department is under construction by the area of 6000 square meter at Pardis Technology Park complex.

The supporting department consists of domestic and foreign colleagues of the Technomart. The domestic colleagues are groups that have set the providing of Technomart’s favorite services, as one of their goals. The Ministries of; Science, Research & Technology, Defense and Support for Armed Forces, Industry and Mine and etc, are of the domestic colleagues of the Technomart.

The foreign colleagues are international organizations and technomarts, like technology transferring centers of Asia & Australia (APCTT), China (STTE) and Korea (KTTC) that have scientific and technological collaborations with National Technomart of Iran.

Aiming to introduce the services providing centers to the applicants taking minimum possible time, National Technomart of Iran has considered extending its network of colleagues, so by this mean, it can facilitate the exchanges of technologies. Furthermore, exchanging information with foreign colleagues will result in nationalizing their technologies and researching achievements and also, foreign participations in domestic technology developments.

Considering the above mentioned goals, the means of providing information in National Technomart of Iran are:

1-    Website:

National Technomart of Iran website includes the country's technology databases, which consist of divisions on; industrial products and equipments, technology proposals, technology application, technology services and, experts. Also the other information related to technology including, consultation services, news, articles and etc are accessible via this website. Universities, research centers, companies or other centers which need technology in particular area or, are willing to introduce their technologies, are the main clients of the technomart. Such centers can visit the website and make their information accessible to public by completing the forms, designated to supply or demand and, therefore making their situation ready for technology co operations.

The sixteen groups related to technology proposals and, the titles of some of the technologies are represented below.

The other databases contain of technology demands which in fact represents answers to the needs of the second group of the technomart clients. At this section, the centers who need a particular technology, propound their demands through dedicated application forms. In addition to meet the applicator's demands, this division is also useful for directing the activities of the research, developing and information providing entities about researching requirements. It is possible for industrial units to submit their needs through special formats, in order to be settled as research projects by the scientific centers of the country.

The third database is dedicated to the technology services suppliers like; growth centers, legal and management advising centers, laboratories, marketing companies and etc. the information related to some of these centers is exhibited below.  

Consultations and instructing articles in various subjects like; technology management, idea ownership, business system planning and etc, are provided at the consultation services division (e-coach).

At the News link, the latest technological achievements of Iran and the world is available to the public, in order to provide the information and conduct the research and development activities. Furthermore, the digital newspaper of the Techno mart is under access through this link.

2-    CD of Iranian hi-tech products (virtual exhibition)

This CD which publishes annually consists of information about hi-tech products of the country. In the first edition of this CD (2005), more than 100 hi-tech products have been introduced in Persian and English language, with pictures and full information about the manufacturer, excellent graphical views and possibility of advanced search. More than 3000 copies of the first edition of this CD have been distributed nationally and internationally through; Iranian embassies in other countries, the foreign countries embassies in Iran, chambers of commerce, Iranian economic and commercial representative offices in other countries, foreign countries economic and commercial representative offices in Iran and, other organizations, ministries and related officials.

The second edition of this CD is going to introduce information about 300 hi-tech products.  

3-    Technology Exchange Forums

These forums are being held twice in a year, aiming to introduce and exchange of the modern technologies. Several companies, institutes and foreign and native individuals are invited to these forums in order to have face to face discussion and negotiations for exchanging and developing their technologies. The subjects of these forums are new technologies such as; Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and IT. At these forums, depending on the subject, the technology providers as one side and, investment, industrial and financing centers, as the technology clients, are being invited, that their relationship will result in predisposition for commercialization and development of technology.

The first technology exchange forum on the specific field of Nanotechnology held by the partnership of the Iranian Nanotechnology Initiative, on March 2006, in which 13 technologies from Iran and, 7 technologies from Germany, Russia and China were the subjects of that forum.

The second technology exchange forum, on the subject of Medical Bio-technology, with association of Technology cooperation office and also Higher Council of Biotechnology, held on October, 2006.   37 domestic technologies and 6 technologies from South Korea, India and China had been introduced at the held forum.

The URL for technology exchange forums is on: www.techforum.ir .

4-    Technomart consultation department

The function of this department is providing advises, networking and conducting the various phases of commercialization of technological plans. The different parts of the consultation department are:

a)     Economical advises including; business system plan, explaining plan, investment and financing, Funds and sources of loans and finances, marketing and market control, financial issues related to the transferring of technology and overseas purchasing of machinery.

b)     Legal advises consist of; the rights of idea ownership, various contracts for transferring technology or purchasing machinery, Labor Laws, Taxes, Trade Law and etc.

c)     Technology transfer advices includes, instructions for import and nationalizing technology, selecting sources for importing technology and machinery, browsing the technology transitions, evaluating technology and pricing the technologies.

d)     Declares and explanations about successful experiences in the field of commercialization of technology