iran academic climate 2016 dr isaac karimi

تعالی بسمه ) فرمايند ) مي ع علي : امام

آفة شيء لكلدارد را خودش آفت چيز .هر

“Every thing has its pest” told Imam Ali.

Why Biology? 1st Intramural Conference, Razi University, May 10, 2016

Isaac Karimi (DVM, DVSc in Physiology); Assistant Professor in School of Sciences, Razi University, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran

ikarimi2010@gmail.com

What are papers, patents, products, and persons?

Publish OR PerishPublish AND Perish

Iran publication bloom

• Advantages• Scientific exercise• Peer review• National journalism• Scientific

advertisement• International gesture• Advancement

• Disadvantages• Brain drainage• Asset drainage• Cash rush out• Plagiarism• Anti-innovation• Educational

shrinkage

As Science is mere structured common sense

Iranian international publication needs cost benefit analysis

Paper vs. education

• I do not have time for my students• No dialogue• No challenge with young smart brains• Sophist is born again.

Sophist vs. PhilosopherMonologue vs. Dialogue

Modern sophist in the college

• My mean impact factor is the highest in the department

• I am distinguished professor• I am top scientist of the world• I am the most educated scientist

Do modern sophists know their society and students?

• They are Homo academicus

New viral infection outbreak among

professors: impact factor

Patent

Patent is my skill.

• US patent• Google patent• Iran patent• "Success comes from knowing what you

don’t know, more than coming from what you do know.“ Ray Dalio

“. . . Anything under the sun that is made by man.” Diamond v. Chakrabarty, USPQ 193, 196 (US 1980)

• Advantages• Technical burst • Patenting is Prestigious –

– I did it! – And I was first!

• Easy Publication – no editors.• Licensing possibilities.• Recoup dollars spent on R&D• Expanded collaborations.• Commercial advantage over

competitors • Provide valuable trading assets to help

assure freedom to operate

• Disadvantages• More time• More money• More human resource• More falsification• More gesture

Who enjoy(s) your patent!Yourself, your company, your country, USA,

…

• Patenting is easy.

• Inventing is tough.

Leave patent, we should make a

product

We should establish a company?

“Me too” project

Knowledge- or science-based companies: Friend or Foe

• Advantages• Real challenge• Actual scientific task• International gesture• Independency• Industrial growth• Employment• Social hope• Economic growth…..• Resistive economics

• Disadvantages• Polarity in funds• Tax escape• Brain drainage• Anti-education in academia• Parasitism• Idea drainage• Double employment• Selling your knowledge in your

company not in college• Workshops instead of products• Give money then learn my student• Corona reaction around professor

روش دفاع در جنگ اقتصادی: اقتصاد مقاومتی

Homo academicus is metamorphosed to Homo economicus

• Who am I? a company man, an industrial guy, boss of company, …

• No I was a professor!!!!

15 Iranian science-based companies attend ArabLab 2016 Export services corridor of science-based products of the scientific and technological deputy of the president, supports superior science-based companies active in the area of lab equipment to attend the ArabLab 2016 exhibition – which will be held in Dubai, in the form of National Iranian Pavilion.

Person: you as a student• Who are you?• Why you are here?• What is your goal?• Are you trying to reach your goal?• Do you innovate or smoke or…..?• You read books and papers or telegram post• You ask question, challenge with professors or • You just cramming at exam night• You just think to pass mark• Are you a futurist?• Do you think to your parents that they think you are studying in school OR

you abuse drugs in backyard?

Homo sapiens (Latin: "wise person")• Imam khomeini was named Man of the Year in 1979 by American

news magazine TIME for his international influence, and has been described as the "virtual face of Islam in Western popular culture"

Future is a viral infection outbreak among student

Nice job for unskilled person: joke

My students stimulate my poor "punishment centre" in my poor brain

• They do not have any positive or even negative feedback

• They check their cellphone• They are very talkative• They behave like beggar at the final exam• They never think to children that are affected by

cancer• They are all fortune tellers and tell me “there is

no job”