The Knowledge Ecosystem and Market: Theoretical Foundations and Data of Iran

The purpose of this article is to explain how the knowledge demand and supply is motivated and coordinated by the knowledge market in the framework of the “Knowledge Ecosystem”. For this purpose, documentary research method has been used in both theoretical and empirical fields. Theoretical research findings show that the knowledge market is a dynamic and intelligent interactive mechanism that occurs naturally within the framework of the knowledge ecosystem and optimizes the allocation of scarce resources to production, commercialization and use of knowledge in the economy. It is therefore a key entity to help knowledge-based economic development. In the empirical field, the findings of the study indicate that the knowledge ecosystem (in general) and the knowledge market (in particular) have not formed in the Iranian economy. Because the Iranian economy is not a viable ecology for the formation and development of knowledge ecosystems and market. Therefore, the government's efforts to address this issue have not been effective. Therefore, the development of knowledge ecosystems and the knowledge market in Iran requires the improvement of their ecology.