Survey and Classification of the Reasons of Iran's Industrial Property Right Reaction

Iran's IPR system, like that in developing countries, is reactive. The research goal is the description of actual deficiencies in Iran's IPR system and identification of the roots and reasons of the reaction and effective internal factors. This research is done via library study, experts’ views, and relevant indexes with depict method. At first, according to published articles, backgrounds of the global economy and different approaches of developing and developed countries in the IPR system are surveyed. Then the present situation in Iran, effective global reasons in present situation, and also relevant to internal and external factors is identified. According to this classification, 3 kinds of factors and reasons are identified: (a) global fields and weak role of developing countries in innovation; (b) the relevant factors with weak performance of Iran's National Innovation System (NIS); and (c) structural weakness and disharmony in performance of policy and executive agent in Iran's IPR system. Some of the factors are related to internal agent weakness and the others are related to international issues, such as universal challenge between developing and developed countries. IPR system, as one of the important elements of NIS, is a determining factor in the development trajectory of any country. For revising Iran's IPR system it is necessary to pay attention to these subjects: (a) consideration of IPR system performance in NIS (b) coordination of IPR system ability and development level of the country.