Bottom-Up Development Of Innovation Strategy, Based On National Indices In Global Innovation Index

Innovation is believed to be the success key for developing- as well as developed-countries, through which the knowledge-based economies may be formed. On the other hand, different indices are available by which the innovation level of a country could be evaluated. Fortunately, the evaluation results are published and available. In order to improve the capacity and output of a nation, a suitable strategy on science and technology should be developed and implemented. In order to fulfill the requirements for improvement in innovation level of an institute, the assessment results should be used to develop innovation strategy. Weakness and strength points are to be used in SWOT strategy development. However, for a national Institute such as Iran National Institute of Materials and Energy, the national wide ranking and scoring which is published as Global Innovation Index (GII) and Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) could be used to develop institutional innovation strategy. Global Innovation Index (GII) and Global Competitiveness Report (GCR) for recent years are used to find out the strength and weakness of Iran in innovation field. Then, by open discussions with experts, academic and non-academic staff members, different strategies and approaches were developed. Problem-solving of high-tech industries, education-base activities, focusing on limited number of research fields, and developing advance technologies on renewable energies, on which the institute has been established were among strategies which were raised. At the end, it came to the “concentrating on limited number of research fields”. Final approval by Board of Trustees facilitated the way to establish and deploy the strategies and approaches.