What is the goal of creating a commercialization office for the achievements of the Iranian Fisheries Science and Research Institute?
- Creating a culture and explaining the importance and the role of research commercialization
- Expanding the market of knowledge-based fisheries products
- Commercializing the research achievements of the Iranian Fisheries Science and Research Institute
- Promoting the supporting role of research centers in technology development and wealth generation in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors
- Promoting the role of research centers in supporting member and non-member researchers and inventors by helping them get their research results into the market
What are the duties of commercialization office of the Iranian Fisheries Science and Research Institute?
- Creating the necessary platform for implementing appropriate patterns of research needs assessment and effective methods of prioritizing research needs
- Creating the bases for converting research achievements into exploitable technologies
- Explaining the necessary criteria for organizing and transferring research findings to executive and exploiters departments
- Marketing the research findings in a variety of ways including the creation of physical and virtual technology
- Evaluating the extent to which the results of the research are applied in the executive departments and at different levels of the exploiters
- Explaining the necessary rules to protect intellectual property rights and moral rights derived from research achievements
- Planning and adopting appropriate measures for commercializing research findings and evaluating them
- Creating the necessary fields to support the innovators of the sector with the aim of using their innovation and creativity to increase productivity and improve the production of agricultural products and natural resources
- Establishing and developing communication between the institution and the executive and economic sectors in order to pay more attention to customer orientation in research activities
What have been the most important steps taken since the establishment of the commercialization office of the institution?
- Participating in the technology markets of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Introducing technological products to the industries of aquaculture, processing of aquatic organisms and fisheries (probiotics for shrimp, Indian carps, Avishit and varieties of aquatic products)
- Writing contracts and memoranda of technology transfer and technology capabilities with the private and public sectors
- Drafting and approving a plan to promote the participation of the institute with the nongovernmental sector.
- Supporting the establishment of knowledge-based companies and engaging with powerful knowledge-based companies in order to transfer some of the activities of the institute to the private sector