نشریه سیاست نامه علم و فناوری
سال هفتم شماره 1 (پیاپی 18، بهار 1396)

The city of knowledge-based is a new concept in the field of urban management and has a developmental approach which ultimate goal is to achieve urban sustainable development and economic progress. According to many experts, one of the factors affecting the location of these cities is to strengthen social capital and increase the level of active participation of citizens in urban development. Social capital cause to transport potential resources of capital and reduces the distance between sociological and economic aspects. The importance of this discuss is about to double, due to the history of the civilization of Iran, despite the lack of physical assets, it has a significant level of social capital accumulation. Despite the comprehensiveness of the concept of social capital, there is still few research on its impact on the knowledge-based urban development, which makes it more relevant research in this field. The major question of this research what is the relationship between knowledge -based urban development and social capital. The purpose of this research is to investigate and understand the relationship between social capital and the dimensions of knowledge-based urban development. by collecting information in documentary, descripting overview of the subject literature and two successful case studies to discovery importance of the positive and influential relationship of social capital with knowledge-based urban development. In this study, the positive relationship between social capital and knowledge-based urban development is confirmed. Also, the conclusion of research indicated that in addition to affecting the economic, institutional and cultural indicators of the knowledge-based development, itself is also through knowledge-based development tools such as knowledge-based education of human capital, the development of technology and communication, the creation of suitable cultural infrastructures and discoveries Creative talents and their attraction affect the knowledge-based development, and in a reciprocal and mutual interaction, social capital and knowledge-based urban development can provide the essential ground for the development of the city.

The main aim of the present study is to compare rank between two selected universities in Iran including Amirkabir University of Technology (AUT) and Sharif University of Technology (SUT). For this purpose, four global ranking systems including ISC, THE, QS and Leiden are explained to determine their major criteria along with related weight and sub-criteria. It is found that SUT achieved better rank especially in “citations”, “academic reputation” and “research” among three out of four selected ranking systems. However, “scientific production” and “International students” have an important role in AUT rank along with Leiden ranking system. The maximum difference between the selected universities rank was related to THE ranking system. It is suggested that actions should be taken towards more attention to quality and quantity of papers, citations and academic stuff/students attendance at international activities in order to achieve better rank.

The emergence of any new technology in education gives rise to optimistic predictions of significant advances in learning. One of these technologies is an electronic learning system that often needs extensive hardware and software resources to provide a rich learning environment, that requires a great deal of cost to provide these resources. Cloud computing is the perfect solution for providing these resources at the lowest cost and providing rich services in e-learning. The purpose of this research is to study the technology of cloud computing and its advantages and limitations in order to improve the quality of education and learning. For this purpose, by studying the sources of recent years by library method, first while introducing cloud computing and its various services, its advantages and limitations in e-learning have been taken into account and then its solutions for improving the quality of higher education were studied. In the following, after discussion about mobile cloud services in education, the best model of using these services in e-learning and its success factors have been introduced. Based on the analysis, it was found that the best model for providing such services is hybrid cloud computing model and success factors in this case include the integration of education technology, teacher modeling, creating learning community, selecting Web 2.0 devices and softwares, technological and education support, and building sustainable engagement.

Evolution of the strategic management knowledge shows that researches in this field has shifted the focus from the simple concepts such as providing guidelines for managers to complicated concepts. Consequently its tools have become more diversified.The aim of this paper, which has been prepared with the compilation and translation approach, is to review the strategy tools published in international leading journals within the past 25 years. In this research has been attempted with translate an article (Vuorinen et al, 2017) and review some research results in Iran, provides a comprehensive overview of strategy tools. This paper aims to address the existing gap in defining the strategy tools for implementing the strategic management theories. First strategy tools will be classified according to strategic management basics, then a comprehensive analysis will be presented in table format.

One of the key factors in the development of new products, especially electronic and military products is the development time of these products or simply the time between the idea and final product. In this research, authors have tried to explore the subject from different dimensions and concurrently with studying the results of several research projects in the context of improving the time performance in military industries, suggest their practical results on the basis of their industrial, consultancy and academic experiences. offering a model and comprehensive classification that fulfill the most important effective factors on time performance of product development projects and yet consider the challenges of an active industrial sector in Iran in a common language with industrialists, can guide managers and policy makers of the product and technology development field in the context of strategy formulation and planning for decreasing development time of products. the aim of this research was to achieve such a comprehensive classification and therefore by performing library studies, holding experts panel and finally using thematic analysis, the set of effective factors on product development time was subdivided to three ramifications (contextual, behavioral and structural), nine themes(far environmental factors, nearby environmental factors, human resources, management and leadership, resource management, enterprise architecture, strategy, cooperation and project) and more than 23 sub themes. Finally, to sum up, some managerial implications and limitations of this study and conclusions will be discussed.

The paper explores the process of early growth of entrepreneurial science-based firms. Drawing on casestudies of British and Dutch biopharmaceutical R&D firms, we conceptualize the speed of early growth of science-based firms as the time it takes for the assembly (or combined development) of three types of critical resources—a functionally-diverse management team, early fundraising and development of technology. The development of these resources is an unfolding and interrelated process, the causaldirection of which is highly ambiguous. We show the variety of paths used by science-based firms toaccess and develop these critical resources. The picture that emerges is that the various combinations of what we call “assisted” and “unassisted” paths combine to influence the speed of firm growth. We show how a wide range of manifestations of technology development act as signaling devices to attract funding and management, affecting the speed of firm development. We also show how the variety of paths andthe speed of development are influenced by the national institutional setting.