Dr Dehghani Firouzabadi, Vise-president for Research, Technology and Innovation at Iranian Azad University, gave a speech on the first day of IRAMOT’s annual conference. He brought the concern of empty-handed innovation and the crucial significance of serving small and family businesses.

Keynote speaker of The 14th National and 10th International Conference, also mentioned the urge to reducing supervising role of universities and value them more as facilitators; as a transforming step towards diminishing the authority of the government of managing universities.