Abstract:
The scientific development in todays globalized environment calls for increasing interaction with scientific and technological centers. Scientific networks and networking with reliance on scientific and academic experts constitute one of the existing strategies to achieve this objective. Through the passage of history, Iran has had economic and cultural exchange with countries located in the Islamic world. Given the globalization of information and communication networks, the idea of enhancing scientific corporation among the said countries can be presented in order to create synergy for generating and developing science and technology. In this paper an attempt has been made to introduce strategic and tools for creating inter-geographical synergy from a theoretical point of view. Science diplomacy has been discussed as a suitable tool for networking among the scientific communities of Iran and Islamic world. This paper also proposes some other strategies to achieve science diplomacy.
Machine summary:
Given the globalization of information and communication networks, the idea of enhancing scientific corporation among the said countries can be presented in order to create synergy for generating and developing science and technology.
Creating appropriate ground for identifying potentials and relative advantages of each of the said countries in the field of science and technology and efforts to transform it into a competitive advantage resulting in the development and innovation is an effective step for creating added value not only in the economic sectors but also on the socio-political scenes.
Given the above, networking with the scientific institutions of the Islamic countries in order to enhance scientific cooperation and achieving synergy for the production and promotion of science, technology and innovation is considered a main strategy.
In todays networking world, a country can achieve the target of its domestic development, which has based the main direction of its foreign policy and interaction with international environment.
In this networking scenario, in view of the increasing role that science and technology play in the development of countries and the increasing power of rivalry for getting a befitting place in the international system, the perspective of long term planning by governments to have active presence in the global system has become imperative.
The mutual role that technology and foreign policy play in the advancement of each other has turned science diplomacy as an important tool in realizing the macro progress of countries.