Identification and Prioritization of Policy Making Indicators of Developing Iran's Software Industry

Software industry is one of the development axes in information technology industry; although, Iran, in spite of the industry's prospective base, hasn’t seen the expected growth, and Iran’s portion from the world software trade is negligible. The present study identified, classified and prioritized criteria of policy making of software industry development indicators. Going through background research and insightful interviews with experts, some solutions were identified and classified to develop this industry in Iran. Indices including 33 members of software industry experts prioritized according to the research community. Data were collected with interviews and questionnaires and analyzed by the SPSS statistical software, as well as Friedman test. Results show that, determining unique trustee in software industry is the most powerful strategic guideline. Respecting to international copyright rules and intellectual property have the highest places among policy strategies while revising teaching methods at universities is the next priority to pace the way to grow this industry in Iran.