The study of the effect of united Nations Technology Indexes on Economical Development of Iran (from 2000 to 2012)

Abstract

The United Nations (U.N) has accepted technology as a series of necessary information, skills, methods and tools for making required Products and their application (use) or providing required and useful services; in a way that it has suggested one of the international methods in technology measurement through the criterion of Technology Achievement Index (TAI)[1]. This index which is comprehensively  expressed in annual report of united Nations Human Development; is a multi- dimensional figure which is defined given the achievements of a country in the creation and application of technology at large scale and providing experience infrastructure and human skills in the innovations of technology[2]. Ignoring the point that which country is the first in the world development of technology, above index focuses on the degree of success of that country in producing and applying technology .In this investigation, the effect of each of the technology achievement indexes suggested by United Nations on economic development of Iran between the years 2000 and 2012 is studied.