Iranian Academic Designs Communication Network to Promote Exports of Knowledge-Based Companies

Amir Zakari, a PhD graduate specialized in industrial engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology, in a research designed the support network to help the Iranian knowledge-based companies to export their products and thus overcome some obstacles facing these companies.

This research can help supporting the Iranian institutions to increase their efforts to facilitate this type of networking, and promoting the knowledge of the main export players of small and medium companies about the capacities and effects of export networking.

The support of the National Science Foundation of Iran was also important in carrying out the project, because this institution's support for research, which is considered more of a fundamental and basic type of research, lays the groundwork for application-oriented research in the next steps.

The Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) announced in May that the Iranian knowledge-based companies exported over 3.6 million tons of products worth $2.506 billion in the past Persian calendar year (ended on March 19).

IRICA’s report said that 1.158 million tons of goods, valued at $5.141 billion, were imported by the knowledge-based companies into the country in the same period.

It added that nearly 85% of the goods imported by the knowledge-based companies were from China, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Turkey, Germany and India.

The Iranian knowledge-based companies exported their products to China, Iraq, the UAE, Turkey and Russia last year, the IRICA said.

In this period, the knowledge-based companies accounted for 2.6 and 5 percent of the country’s total exports in weight and value respectively.

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