Tehran enters list of world's top 100 innovation clusters
The ranking identifies regions with a high concentration of universities, research centres and inventors' offices
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The World Intellectual Property Organisation (a specialised agency of the United Nations) has included Tehran among the world's top 100 leading innovation clusters, ranking it 65th. The Iranian capital was the country's only city to feature in the ranking. This was reported by IRNA, a TV BRICS partner.
The participants in the ranking were determined based on three main indicators: international patent registration applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, scientific publications and venture capital investment deals.
The ranking identifies regions with a high concentration of universities, researchers and inventors, companies and investors that play a key role in creating technologies, commercialising innovations and turning them into products or services.
According to data on Tehran, during the five-year period covered by the study, 405 international patent applications were filed in the city, 58,732 scientific articles were published and 107 venture capital investment deals were concluded. Researchers also highlighted the activities of the University of Tehran, whose staff published 5,232 scientific articles.
According to the World Intellectual Property Organisation's report, engineering sciences are among the main areas of specialisation of Tehran's innovation cluster. In terms of patents, medical technologies ranked first, accounting for 19 per cent of patent applications filed in Tehran's innovation cluster. They were followed by computer technology, civil engineering and pharmaceuticals.
The Chinese innovation cluster Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou ranked first in the 2026 ranking of the world's largest innovation clusters.
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