MOHAMMAD ABBASI Executive Manager, Sina Institute for Policy Making, Management and Innovation, Tehran, Iran MARYAM ASHRAFI PhD Candidate in the Industrial Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran SANAM FARNOODI PhD Candidate in the Department of Management and Economy, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran MAHDI GOODARZI Senior Executive at the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran SOROUSH GHAZINOORI Assistant Professor on the Faculty of New Science and Technology, University of Tehran, Iran SEPEHR GHAZINOORY Associate Professor of S&T Policy,Tarbiat Modares University, Iran REZA JAMALI PhD Candidate in the Department of Strategic Management, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran REZA MANSOURI Professor of Physics, Sharif University of Technology and Executive Manager, Iranian National Observatory Project, Tehran, Iran MANOUCHER MANTEGHI Associate Professor at Malek Ashtar University of Technology, Executive Director of Iran Aeronautical Organization, and former Executive Director of Iran Khodro Automobile Company, Tehran, Iran TAHEREH MIREMADI Assistant Professor and researcher at Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology,Tehran, Iran MARZIEH SHAVERDI Senior Specialist in Management of Technology, Iran Atomic Energy Organization, Tehran, Iran BEHZAD SOLTANI Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Kashan University, and formerly deputy Director Iran Atomic Energy Organization ABDOL S. SOOFI Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Wisconsin, USA PARVIZ TARIKHI Space science and technology specialist on microwave remote sensing, Iranian Space Agency, Tehran, Iran FATEMEH SALEHI YAZDI PhD Candidate in Manchester Business School, UK, formerly a member of the Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC), Tehran, Iran MOHAMMAD ALI BAHREINI ZARJ Chief Executive Officer, Nanotech Fund, Tehran, Iran.