چكيده به لاتين
The economic divergence between developed and developing countries has always been an important issue, economically, socially, and politically. The nature and scale of this divergence has been different from time to time, started with the occurrence of the industrial revolution and exaggerated through the second wave of the industrial revolution. Technological catch-up is a critical and important element of development process in latecomer countries. The latecomers would benefit from the technologies developed by technology pioneers. Technological catch-up would also be regarded as methods of mastering technological activities of the front-runner countries.
In this research, the effective qualitative and quantitative catch-up thrusters of Iran's software industry are addressed. The possible scenarios to achieve catch-up is also studied. According to the aim of this research is investigating important and uncertain driving forces of technological catch-up. In this regard we extracted 54 elements through literature review and expert opinion. Finally according to importance and uncertainty scores, 17 driving forces are derived.
The results show that two of the possible scenarios are consistent. The first one is based on presence of Iranian companies in the global production ecosystem, acquiring world-class abilities, and pervasive domestic request for their product. The second scenario, on the other hand, is based on limited presence of Iranian companies in the world market, imitative and adoptive abilities, and pervasive domestic request for their product.