Policy making diagnostics of Iran’s fuel cell technology

Today fossil energy sources are strongly substituting by new and renewable energies. Hydrogen is now known as one of the most sustainable energies, so that the next century has been named as hydrogen era. Hydrogen is used as the fuel of fuel cell. Development of new technologies, like fuel cell, needs a special planning and policy making according to the situation of each country. As policy making of fuel cell´s technology has been recently planned in Iran, the approach of this study is diagnostics of the policy making. In this study, assessment and finally diagnostics of Iran´s fuel cell technology was done according to the approach of National Innovation System identified by OECD and through interview method. Questionnaire of interview was designed according to the functions of National Innovation System and interviews were done with experts who had experiences in this field. Gathered information was analyzed by Excel software and finally diagnostics got in this way. The main diagnostics identified in this study includes some issues on management capabilities, research centers, IT network, human capabilities and using some tools for policy making in fuel cell technology in Iran.