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Tehran stands tall in region, ranked 34th globally in science, tech clusters
According to the 2023 WIPO report, Tehran has consistently ranked among the top 100 science and technology clusters globally in recent years, but this latest ranking marks a significant jump. The city has edged out other regional contenders to take the top spot in South and Central Asia, ISNA reported.
A breakdown of the data shows that the University of Tehran has come out on top, accounting for 12% of the city’s published research papers, followed closely by the Islamic Azad University with 9% and Amirkabir University of Technology with 8%. The WIPO evaluation found that between 2017 and 2022, a total of 63,113 papers were published in Tehran, with 25% of those focused on technical and engineering fields, according to Intellectual Property Center.
The University of Tehran’s public relations office noted that the WIPO report also highlighted the dominance of East Asian cities in the global rankings, with Yokohama, Japan; Guangzhou, China; and Seoul, South Korea taking the top three spots. The first non-Asian city to make the list was San Francisco, which came in sixth.
Tehran filed 37 PCT applications and published 9,320 scientific articles, both per 1 million inhabitants over the last five years.
Six percent of Tehran’s PCT patent applications are filed in collaboration with other inventors, with Los Angeles, Boston– Cambridge and Paris emerging as the top collaborative locations.
Twenty-two percent of Tehran’s scientific articles are published in collaboration with other organizations, with the top three collaborating locations being Boston–Cambridge, London and Seoul.