Center for National Macro Technology Projects

Projects supported by the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs with the title of “national macro technology projects” are knowledge-based and technological projects with commercialization abilities, implementation of which requires the extensive cooperation of various players. However, these projects respond to the strategic and fundamental needs of the country. Given their impact on production, self-efficacy, and job creation, these projects must be supported as important tools for the realization of a knowledge-based economy in the country. In order to implement the national macro projects, the Vice-Presidency coordinates the government and private ministries, organizations, and units and financially supports the advancing of the projects using the budget of the Vice-Presidency and the relevant units. The report presented below covers the national macro technology projects in the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs.

The projects supported by the center for national macro technology projects must have specific features; a national macro project is a knowledge-based and technological project with a high level of technological preparedness. In addition, it has abundance of economic added value and requires the collaborative and coordinated efforts of various players of the innovation system due to its importance, the field of work and complexity. Moreover, this type of project contributes to the elimination of fundamental and strategic needs of the country in the field of technology and innovation-based products and services.

The output of the national macro technology and innovation projects in the Vice-Presidency is often products manufactured in the country for the first time in a way that it can solve a serious problem in a production industry.