Iran academic climate in 2016 is a lecture offered by Dr ISAAC KARIMI in "Why biology" 1st conference in Razi university, Kermanshah, Iran.

1. :
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“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

2. What are papers, patents, products, and persons?
Publish OR Perish
Publish AND Perish

3. 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

4. As Science is mere structured common sense

5. Iranian international publication needs cost
benefit analysis

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

7. Sophist vs. Philosopher
Monologue vs. Dialogue

8. 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

9. Do modern sophists know their
society and students?
• They are Homo academicus

10. New viral infection
outbreak among
professors:
impact factor

11. Patent

12. 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

13. “. . . 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

14. Who enjoy(s) your patent!
Yourself, your company, your country, USA,
…
• Patenting is easy.
• Inventing is tough.

15. Leave patent, we
should make a
product
We should establish a company?
“Me too” project

16. 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

18. Homo academicus is metamorphosed
to Homo economicus
• Who am I? a company man, an industrial
guy, boss of company, …
• No I was a professor!!!!

19. 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.

20. 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?

21. 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"

23. Future is a viral infection
outbreak among student

24. Nice job for unskilled person:
joke

25. 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”