Pardis Technology Park (PTP) as the region’s paradise of technology, under the auspices of Vice-Presidency for science and technology and a fourteen-entity Board of Trustees comprising of corporate and real bodies from ministries, science centers and academies, headed by the First Vice President, pursuing the goals of commercialization of the research results and, establishing sustainable ties between University and Industry, is located in a now 60 hectares area, in three phases, (expandable to 1000 hectares) at 20 km distance to the northeast vicinity of Tehran.

The original plan of creating a network for technology transfer and exchange among the eight Islamic developing countries (D8) was on the agenda of the fourth conference of senior experts of D8 member states in 2008. The Network was designed to facilitate and accelerate the access to Technology information of the Member States and creating a context for technological cooperation based on a dynamic portal as its infrastructure.