Defense in Transition to Learning Economy in Iran: A Review

The Islamic Revolution of Iran (IRI) faces various levels of threats. In the recent years, the economic threats have been heeded and escalated by the enemy. Accordingly, after the communication of meta policies on selfsufficiency in security and defense in the late 2013 by the supreme leader, the strategy of resilience economy was specifically put on agenda, and the role of defense sector was taken into consideration. On the other side, the concept of learning economy could be heeded in order to implement the resilience economy at a national level. In other words, the transition to learning economy could be assumed as an infrastructure for resilience economy. Transition into learning economy in developing countries means how the economic systems could embed the required qualitative changes into themselves in the face of pressures from environmental changes and the upcoming incremental upheavals. Meanwhile, the present study deals with transition into learning economy in Iran with the approach of science and technology policy and in reliance with defense sector. The approach of the research is an inductive one which is conducted in a qualitative manner and the data are extracted upon grounded theory. Following, it reviews the significant cases in terms of the 11 issues and then presents the political advices.