History

  NRISP (The former" National Center for Scientific Research") launched its activities under an approval made by" Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution" on restructuring, coordinating, centralizing, and integrating national research centers and organizations in 1980. After reopening the universities, there was a strong need to carry out fundamental and applied research in order to gain scientific and industrial independence. The need originated from the consequences of the imposed war.

  Therefore, to achieve the concerned goals including; to investigate research priorities, needs and potentialities of researchers; to determine research priorities; to provide scientific and technical services and to establish scientific cooperation with other research centers inside and outside the country; and to set up coordination in the field of research, its administrative law and its duties were drawn up by the former" Ministry of Culture and Higher Education" to submit to the "State Scientific research Council" for approval.

  Once its Act was approved in 1984, it was renamed as "The State Scientific Research Center" . Then, its organizational chart and the relevant principles and duties in the framework of a research center was approved by the former " Ministry of Culture and Higher Education"
in 1991. Following the approval of "The State Organization for Administrative and Employment Affairs", the center started its activities having the following five research groups; Research recognition and assessment group, Research planning and coordination group, International studies group, Scientific policy group, and Publications and research group.

  Again, the center was renamed as "National Research Institute for Science Policy" and its Act was changed in 2001. Based on the new Act, the institute has been continuing its work with its six new research groups and new duties since 2004 to meet the needs of the "Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology" in the field of research and science policy and to consider appropriate cultural grounds to develop scientific and research activities in the society.