فصلنامه سیاست علم و فناوری
سال شانزدهم شماره 3 (پیاپی 59، پاییز 1402)

As an innovation, power electronic devices plays a significant role in changing the paradigm of the traditional power grid structure and the emergence of smart grids. Based on the new public governance paradigm (NPG), one of the necessities for the emergence of power electronic device innovations is to pay atten`1tion to collaborative approaches such as innovation ecosystems. Considering the necessity of building power electronic devices innovation ecosystems in the country and the lack of coherent research in this regard, the present research designs this ecosystem to empower policymakers in their efforts to analyze ecosystems across relevant categories and to develop an informed strategy.The research method was based on Design Science Research methodology (DSR). In the Awareness phase, theoretical dimensions and related documents/reports were reviewed. In the Suggestion phase, 23 interviews conducted with experts along with selected documents were coded and categorized based on comparative qualitative content analysis through an unstructured matrix. In the Development phase, the output of the Suggestion phase was reviewed and finalized by an expert panel consisting of 15 experts in the field of power electronic devices. In the Evaluation phase, the output of the Development phase was evaluated and confirmed by using three tools including evaluation of the appropriateness of the components, expert panel and trustworthiness of inquiry. In the Conclusion phase, based on the results, implications and suggestions of the research were proposed. The design of power electronic devices innovation ecosystems and providing policy implications and suggestions based on it.

The importance of innovation ecosystems among researchers and at the level of society is increasing, and Iran's innovation ecosystem is no exception to this rule. But it seems that despite the support provided by the government, this ecosystem has not yet reached the required effect. To this end, the current research has analyzed the function of the Iran's innovation ecosystem. According to this goal, qualitative research design and grounded theory method were used. The opinions of 22 participants were taken through interviews and the opinions of 13 ecosystem actors were taken through secondary data. According to the findings, while the government sought to remove obstacles such as contradictory laws and widespread bureaucracy in the ecosystem, at the same time with the expansion of the government's activity, the bureaucratic obstacles that are rooted in the government correspondingly increase. The government's financial incentives and providing infrastructure to foster innovation capability and strengthening communication between actors. Existed support mechanisms have not been a serious stimulus in order to provide the opportunity to learn technological knowledge and interactive learning between actors like university and industry. Moreover, on the one hand the government support companies in growth stage to innovate, but on the other hand its intervention to control the markets prevents the exploitation of the aforementioned innovation in the market. In the face of these paradoxes, ecosystem actors, considering the adaptive efficiency of institutions in the ecosystem and their own motivations, choose three major strategies: leaving the ecosystem, not entering the ecosystem, or staying minimalistic on ecosystem.

From the perspective of the Austrian school, this article critically examines and investigates political entrepreneurship as a manifestation of alignment between entrepreneurs and an institutional framework aimed at securing exclusive access to resources. Political entrepreneurship has emerged as a notable phenomenon in developing economies and has a consequential influence on the attainment of sustainable development goals. This investigation was carried out employing an extensive delineation with a generative methodology to this notion, via the compilation of amalgamated information sourced from documentary outlets and semi-structured interviews with proficient political specialists, who were meticulously chosen through theoretical purposive sampling and the main characteristics of entrepreneurial activities were identified and It has presented a model of political entrepreneurship with a sustainable development approach. The research methodology is characterized by its fundamental-developmental objective. Furthermore, it is qualitative and exploratory in nature, where the Grounded theory is employed to organize and analyze the collected data. The paradigm model was derived from the examination of 4905 conceptual propositions, 6 selective codes, 17 axial codes, and 73 open codes. The findings indicate that the central category in the model of political entrepreneurship is significantly influenced by multiple links. These results can be applied to other economies that are in the process of development. This study provides insights into the holistic approach that can be taken to leverage the capabilities of political entrepreneurs, thereby fostering innovation in the political arena and implementing reforms in the institutional structure for politicians and policymakers. Consequently, the adoption of this model leads to the strengthening of the institutional structure and facilitates progress towards sustainable development.

Higher education has been considered as one of the centers of society's progress and the foundation for progress in other fields. Therefore, the quality of this institution and the achievement of its goals are of great importance. This shows itself even more due to the change of development paradigms from economic development to human development, because in human development, man is the center and goal of development too, and the approach that emphasizes it is called the capabilities approach. The capabilities approach provides a more complete, holistic, and transformative approach to higher education curriculum design because it is not limited by predetermined contextual needs. Looking at the importance of the subject, the current research focuses on the implications of the human capabilities approach in higher education. The present research is developmental-applied based on purpose, qualitative based on the nature of data, and documentation based on data collection methods. The research method is analytical-descriptive and the qualitative data have been collected using the meta-synthesis qualitative research method according to Barroso and Sandelowski’s seven-step method. For this purpose, by searching 16 reliable scientific databases, 1945 articles were identified between 1979 and 2022. Among all the 1945 identified original texts, 12 relevant articles were selected finally. Then the selected articles were reviewed and coded. The meta-synthesis of previous studies shows that the implications of the capabilities approach in higher education can be classified under four categories: contextual capabilities, behavioral capabilities, educational capabilities, and economic-welfare capabilities. The identified concepts (capabilities) also include 20 concepts.

Reviewing The literature of the Information Technology (IT) future scenarios, four categories of research can be identified: one category is the researches that have studied the change in "people's lifestyle and work" due to the development of Information Technology, the second group has studied "governance changes" under the influence of IT, and the third category deals about the "impact of Information Technology on development". Unlike these three categories, some researches have studied the future of Information Technology affected by social changes. This article, studies and describes different IT future scenarios, and then groups and analyzes them in order to help understand the relationship between them. The research method is a kind of review called meta-analysis (qualitative systematic review) and comparison between IT future scenarios. Analysis of these scenarios shows that although they are influenced by social changes and impressed by the growth of the computational and communication technologies, they affect the social changes as well. From the view of social changes affected by IT, these scenarios are drawn from three points of view including "People", "Government" and "Development Models". These three points of view depict the lifestyles of the people, governance and countries' development path. Probing the scenarios, we found a list of characteristics and impacts of the scenarios. Findings show there is a unity between the uncertainties of the above-mentioned three points of view which leads to building a unit framework through the conformity of the coordinate devices. Comparison of the scenarios in each quarter of this unit coordinate device infers that despite the different actors, the ideal scenarios do coincide seriously in the dimensions and the ideal situation, so that there is a kind of conceptual convergence in their effects.