Identifying the Development Path of Technological Capabilities of Iran Using Economic Complexity Approach

Shahmoradi, Behrooz; Samandar Ali Eshtehardi, Mojgan

doi:10.22054/ijer.2020.41813.755

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Assistant Professor, STI Financing & Economics Department, National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP), Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Policy Evaluation & STI Monitoring Department, National Research Institute for Science Policy (NRISP), Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/ijer.2020.41813.755

Abstract

Economic complexity is a concept that is used to express the ability of countries to produce complex products through the proper construction of technology structures in order to collect its diverse technologies and apply them. In this article, by using economic complexity approach, we aimed to identify the products in Iran’s technological capabilities frontier that leads the country to produce more diverse and complex products. For this purpose, by using four-digit SITC classification data, 86 products were identified. By producing and exporting them, the country can reach a higher accumulation of technological capabilities and thus a higher degree of diversification and economic complexity. Also, according to three criteria, the total number of competitors, the volume of world trade and the number of importing countries from selected products, 16 products in the world and 11 products in the region were picked up as the products in priority.

Keywords

20.1001.1.17260728.1400.26.86.2.5

Main Subjects

Economic Development

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Identifying the Development Path of Technological Capabilities of Iran Using Economic Complexity Approach

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Volume 26, Issue 86 - Serial Number 86April 2021Pages 44-72

Volume 26, Issue 86 - Serial Number 86
April 2021
Pages 44-72