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| Iran National Science Foundation | 2/3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_National_Science_Foundation | reference | science, encyclopedia | 2026-05-05T10:30:34.730676+00:00 | kb-cron |
arranging opportunities for the appreciation and reverence of selected researchers in accordance with other institutes responsible in this field, having active connection with relevant organizations to improve researchers' position in the society, using legal devices and strategies for propagating the culture and spirit of research entrepreneurship.
=== Intellectual Property === Intellectual property of the plans supported by the foundation, and their resulting achievements and reports will be defined according to the foundation's supports and the type and subject of plans. In return for financial and spiritual supports, the foundation can hold a portion or the whole intellectual property of the plan's achievements. In this regard, the foundation's general principles are:
contact with internal or foreign authentic and legal centers in order to cover service needs for patenting of inventions and their intellectual property, researchers share probable material profits of their idea, as far as possible, there must be a system for patenting the ideas of those researchers who present their innovative plans to the foundation as well as for protection of their rights, if ever execution of the plans needs cooperation of several researchers, a necessary network must be established among them, preserving each one's rights.
=== Supportive Priorities of the Foundation === Considering the basic function of the foundation, "generation of science and technology, and benefiting the nation from its profits", (based on article 2 of the foundation's statute) the following basic priorities for allocation of finance and non-financial and financial facilities of the foundation are defined:
according to article 3, amendment 4 of the foundation statute, "for using supports and aids domestic researchers have priority over others," the plans and requests must necessarily be in the field of modern and advanced sciences and technologies. The foundation's subjective priorities will annually be approved by the scientific committee, applicant's requested subjects must possess a kind of innovation, creativity and originality. Moreover, the plans should not be step by step repetition of experiences of the developed countries, or translation and duplication of research findings of other countries, the plans must have distinctive characteristics in comparison to similar domains. In other words, they must not be included in the responsibility domain or work field of other domestic institutes, responsible for supporting researches, the plans must prepare the ground for the creation of new and specialized job opportunities (especially for the elite), the plans must have economic and technical justifications, and as far as possible return of the investment, the plans must show a certain result, if possible, within a short span of time.
== The Charter for Presentation of Facilities by INSF == To execute the act of session 522- 29 July 2003 of the Cultural Revolution Supreme Council, regarding the statute of Iran National Science Foundation (here in this charter referred to as "the foundation"), the following executive charter was ratified in the board of trustees' session 1 Dec, 2003.
=== Objective === Presentation of services and facilities to those who present research plans regarding the explanation of the proceeding should be in accordance with the objectives of the statute.
=== Application Scope === Under article 3 of the statute, supports of the foundation covers all Iranian researchers (both true and legal persons) whether academic or nonacademic, inside or outside the country. Moreover, according to article 3 amendment 4, researchers inside the country have priority over others.
=== Concepts and Definitions === Facilities: The foundation's direct material (financial) supports for the applicants Services: The foundation's indirect material supports for the applicants
=== Types of Supports === The foundation's supports are conducted in two different ways as follows:
a) Material supports a-1) Facilities (grants or credits/loans), a-2) Investments (participation in the execution of plans) b) Services.
=== Elaborating on the Types of Supports ===
==== Grants ==== They are granted to those plans which possess the priorities of the foundation, but can not return the facilities in short term. The evaluation committee is responsible to specify and recognize such plans. For the plans covered by this article, possession of a portion of the plan is reserved for the foundation, and if needed or preferred, the foundation can sell or use the practical advantages of it.
==== Credit Facilities (loans) ==== This kind of facilities is for those plans which have economic justifications and accord with priority policies of the foundation. The evaluation committee is responsible for the recognition and specifying the above. The time period for this kind of facilities to be returned is three years, and the interest rate and commission for the facilities is max 10%.
==== Investment (participation in the execution of plans) ==== For this kind of facilities, besides its economic justifications, the researcher supplies a portion of the needed investment. According to its share, the foundation will also share profits and losses. To participate or not, the right for selection is reserved for the foundation.
==== Granting Services ==== A) Reimbursement of the expense to attend international scientific conferences and assemblies. According to the statute, the foundation undertakes to pay back researchers' expenses for conferences and international scientific assemblies attended. These types of supports are categorized as grants but the foundation has the right to utilize the results of the researcher's reports of attendance in such conferences or assemblies.
B) Support to hold scientific-research courses
This kind of supports is with the purpose of more communication and acquaintance and dialogue among researchers, as well as getting familiar with the most recent scientific and research achievements. The expenses for such courses, suggested by the researcher to introduce the selected proposal to other researchers and academic societies, are being paid by the foundation.
C) Helping invention patent