White Papers & Opinion Pieces
Who Pays for Knowledge?
The Social Contract for Funding Research, Development and Innovation
BY DR. MOHAMMED I. ALMAJED
Dr. Almajed is the Honorary Chairman of the AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship & Development, a UC Berkeley alum, and one of the architects of the industrial and innovation execution of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. His more elaborate bio can be found here.
Building an Innovation Economy in Iran
The white paper traces Iran’s economic development trajectory from the 19th Century to the present. Throughout, the focus is on identifying the development models and institutional arrangements that have served to stimulate or detract from economic growth and development. The specific mechanisms through which Iran has attempted to generate economic growth over the years, starting with import-substituting industrialization, entrenching a knowledge-based economy, and, more recently, activating a startup movement that can potentially contribute to the establishment of an AI-centric innovation economy, are delineated and examined.
Authors: Mehdi S. Zarghamee, Yahya Tabesh, Dariush Zahedi, August 2020