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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a technology park?

A technology park is a physically high-quality, park-like environment where private research units or affiliated with organizations and industries are located and covered and supported to engage in creativity and innovation. They benefit from the advantages of proximity to important sources of intellectual capital, suitable infrastructure and guiding policies, and provide opportunities for interaction, technological development and economic growth.

What is a growth center (incubator)?

Growth centers are centers to compensate for the risk of creating start-up companies. Start-up companies are companies that do not have financial resources and high-risk work experience.

Growth centers have shared facilities, advisory services, training and generally government support for entrepreneurial groups. In other words, these centers try to provide financial and spiritual support to start-up companies that work in the field of technology, so that these companies can eventually commercialize their plan, produce and develop technology, and enter the cycle of profitability and job creation.

What is the difference between parks and technology growth centers?

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Parks

Growth center

Type of established companies

Established and has a good history

Newbie

physical body

Land, 5 to several thousand hectares

Building, 500 to several thousand square meters

Type of activity of established companies

Engineering design and research and development

Converting the initial idea to the initial product

Public service level

On an urban scale: sports, services and...

In the scale of the building: meeting room, typing and duplicating, telephone booth and...

Type of specialized services

Technology transfer consulting, domestic and foreign investment, financing, export and import affairs, educational affairs, laboratory affairs, technical and engineering affairs, legal affairs, etc.

Consulting for company registration, accounting, contract writing, etc.

Types of laboratories

Specialized and mainly within companies

General for all members

Duration of presence of companies

permanent

Temporary, maximum three to five years

subsidy

with less subsidy

With a high subsidy

position

suburbs

In cities, next to universities and in parks

investment

A lot within the town

Low in the building

What is the legal and organizational structure of Pardis Technology Park?

Founding organization:

Presidential Institution / Vice President of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy

Park pillars:
     Board of Trustees(Headed by the First Vice President - Vice President of the Vice President of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy - Secretary of the Park Directorate - 6 legal entities including the Minister of Health, Treatment and Medical Education, the Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade, the Deputy Research Minister of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, the Head of the Country Planning and Budget Organization, the Governor of Tehran, the Head of the Center for Presidential Transformation and Development Cooperation, the Head of the Investment and Economic and Technical Assistance Organization of Iran, the Head of Sharif University of Technology and 4 to 6 individuals)
The head of the park
Park Council

What is the purpose of creating campus technology park?

Commercialization of innovations and research results and realizing the connection between industry and university
Helping to create and support start-up research and engineering institutions and companies
Helping to attract foreign investment and accelerating the process of technology transfer
Increasing competitiveness and growth of knowledge-based industries
Creating an environment to identify and present technological capabilities of the country (Fanbazar)

What are the advantages and legal incentives of settling in Pardis Technology Park?

Based on Article 9 of the Law on the Support of Knowledge-Based Companies and Institutions and the Commercialization of Innovations and Inventions, the technology units based in Pardis Technology Park can benefit from the benefits of Article 13 of the Law on the Administration of Free Zones and other material and spiritual support as follows:

Exemption from income tax and employee salaries;

Exemption from paying the country's usual taxes;

lack of inclusion of labor law;

Exemption from research and engineering contracts;

Issuing letters to increase the technical score factor for participation in tenders;

facilitating and issuing all kinds of letters of introduction;

Consulting services from specialized service brokers;

providing empowerment services to creative/innovative individuals and teams;

Consulting services in the field of matters related to tax exemptions;

Consulting services in the field of obtaining operating license / research and development / technical and engineering;

Consulting services in the field of evaluation and recognition of knowledge-based competence;

benefiting from the specialized service of the duty system;

Marketing in government organizations;

Attending the park booth at technology and innovation exhibitions;

Attracting investors;

entrusting the implementation of technological projects required by state industries;

facilitating communication with research and study institutions of the university;

Using common facilities and infrastructure and reducing costs;

Exploitation of established connections with organizations;

Facilitating communication with specialized and young academic staff and providing labor;

Using the advantages of neighboring technological units with each other;

The possibility of using seminars and workshops in the park;

Finding new credit in the form of presence in the campus technology park for market development;

support for domestic and foreign patents;

Supporting domestic and foreign trademark registration;

support in preparation of explanatory plan;

Support for obtaining national and international standards and approvals;

introducing trainees to work in companies;

Supporting students' dissertations related to the specialized field of established companies;

Supporting participation in technology tours;

Supporting attendance at domestic and foreign exhibitions;

Attending the training courses held;

Taxes on foreign investment and international financial transactions.

 

What is meant by the possibility of using financial exchange facilities with outsiders in the park?

according toregulationsImplementation of Article 9 of the Law on Support for Knowledge-Based Companies and Institutions and Commercialization of Innovations and Inventions Development Transfer of currencies from abroad to parks and from parks to abroad by technology units located in parks through the banking network with the permission of the Board of Trustees of Azad Park, and the Central Bank is obliged to create conditions for the implementation of the provisions of this article.
Also, according to Article 14 of the same regulations, technology units can import and export their goods and services with the approval of the park management within the framework of the assigned missions and the export and import law.

In general, what customs services will be provided in the park?

Through the establishment of the Kamargi service broker, services such as supply, delivery and clearance of goods, as well as export-related matters, will be provided.

Does the park help in getting research projects for member companies or not?

Considering that a number of companies have demanded to be present in the park as a research party to the contracts, there is a possibility of consultation and participation of the park regarding the case contracts according to the nature of the contract and the technology in question as well as the amount of the contract.

The park mainly contracts research contracts with a small financial volume through the New Technologies Development Fund (licensed to conclude research contracts from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology).

Will the park have a specialized or public laboratory and workshop?

At present, the park headquarters does not have a specialized or general laboratory and workshop; But there are plans in progress in this regard. Laboratory services in the park are currently provided by established companies in the fields of nano, chemistry and instrumentation.

To view the website of Park Laboratory Services Networkclickdo

What are the existing infrastructures in Pardis Technology Park?

The tunnel of underground facilities through which all the facilities of the park have passed
Electricity with the possibility of supplying from two power sources (currently, it is supplied from only one source)
Drinking water network
An independent telecommunication center connected to the country's nationwide fiber optic network
The possibility of connecting to the Internet through ADSL and Wireless
Sewage network gas network (commissioned in 2019)

To see the complete infrastructure in the parkclickdo

Who is responsible for the provision of water, electricity, gas, etc. branches?

The construction of infrastructure is the responsibility of the park; But obtaining them and paying the related fees are the responsibility of the companies themselves. The companies are introduced by the park to the relevant authorities in order to obtain the branch and they proceed by paying the necessary fees to obtain the branch.

The park's electricity is currently supplied from the existing 63.20 kV mobile area, which will supply the entire capacity of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the park next year with the use of the permanent substation.

How are the Internet Park facilities?

Infrastructural facilities of Internet Park:

Siraj Technology Center:

ADSL internet service
Dedicated Internet Bandwidth

Park land section:

ADSL internet service
Wireless Internet broadband services

What services are provided by the park regarding currency transactions?

This is possible through export brokers as well as the exchange inside the park.

To get additional information, contact extension 2316 or 2313

In order to send to foreign exhibitions, what kind of support is provided to the sending company?

Paying up to 70% of the cost of renting, building a booth and transporting exhibition goods every year up to 1 billion Rials in the form of preferential rate facilities. To get additional information, contact extension 2316 or 2313.

What is the support for obtaining international standards, certificates and licenses?

Paying up to 70% of the related costs in the form of facilities with a preferential rate of up to 1 billion Rials. To get additional information, contact extension 2316 or 2313.

Which accelerators can get approval from Innovation Acceleration Center?

Accelerators should firstly have an independent and private legal personality with proper support and records in their portfolio and secondly, provide a suitable and profitable acceleration plan.

What are the most important advantages of the acceleration center approval?

Accelerator knowledge base
Facilities and financial assistance of the Vice President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy (if there are resources)
Benefiting from the extensive network of Fardis Technology Park and Innovation Acceleration Center

What is an innovation factory?

Innovation factories are the new actors of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, which are formed in the bodies of abandoned factories and bring a new concept of synergy for the innovation ecosystem activists.
Innovation factories are a gathering place for new companies or startups, the services they need are provided by accelerators and innovation centers in a centralized manner, and they are supposed to boil innovation in the environment of factories and provide new solutions to solve existing problems.

What is the difference between parks and innovation factories?

Innovation factories, as the first link in the chain of sustainable entrepreneurship, are a suitable place for launching innovative and technological businesses, which are generally formed inside cities and in the vicinity of knowledge environments (universities and research institutes).

This is despite the fact that parks are the most important element at the end of the chain of sustainable entrepreneurship and are the best place for the development and expansion of mature innovative and technological businesses.

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