According to the Code of Conduct for the Detection of Companies and Knowledge Based Organizations, knowledge-based companies are private or cooperative institutions that promote knowledge-based economic development and the realization of scientific and economic goals in the development of innovation and ultimately to increase knowledge and wealth. Commercialization of the research and development results (including the design and production of goods and services) in the field of high technology and high added value (especially in the production of related software).
According to the approved regulations, knowledge-based companies, such as goals of the faculty of universities and research units for more activities in meeting the needs of the community and the possibility of increasing the income of faculty members, commercializing research findings, increasing the incomes of universities and units Research is a general topic of basic knowledge activity.

    Types of knowledge based companies:

A. Firms owned by faculty only.
If the university's shares are less than 50%, the company is the foundation of a private company that must be subject to the law of commerce and registered with the registration office.
B) the companies that the universities also own.
If the university's shares are 50% or more, the company is the corporation of the state-owned corporation (the most important principle is the knowledge base of the state, the principle of scientific service, technical and research).

    Characteristics of knowledge based companies

Knowledge-based companies do not basically produce goods and generally do not have a specific ground or machinery. They always produce a wealth of educated and experienced people who are the main products of the company and make money for them. Industrial designs and product intellectual property are always the main concerns of the company, which maintains the intellectual rights of this information, is one of the most important legal issues in knowledge-based companies, because these assets are not primarily touchable.

    Fields of activity of knowledge based companies

1. Perform Applied Research
2. Providing specialized and advisory services (scientific and technical services)
3. Production of new products or technology (technology development)
4. Supervisory services on research, executive and advisory services
5- Presentation of Entrepreneurship Development Services
6. Creation of centers for growth and services. Creation and development of business
7. Presentation of new product development services
8. Providing business entry services to the international market and globalizing them
9. Planning and implementation of entrepreneurship development projects at national, regional and local levels

    Government support from knowledge based companies

Knowledge-based companies have the benefit of state-sponsored exemptions from tax, customs duties and commercial profits, and tax burdens for 15 years, as well as low interest (long-term or short-term) or non-interest facilities.

    Indicators of Knowledge Based Knowledge Detection

Indicators for recognizing knowledge-based companies are divided into two categories of public and specific indicators. Applicants must also meet the criteria specified in one of the three categories of proprietary indicators, in addition to general indicators.
A. General Indicators
At least two thirds of the board members of the company meet at least two of the following conditions.
1. Minimum Bachelor degree.
2. Have at least 3 years of work experience or scientific background in the field of company activity or management history.
3. Have at least one registered internal evaluation invented or an international invention related to the company's field of work.
4. Minimum half of the company's revenue in the past financial year of the company due to the sale of technology, goods or knowledge-based services (including research and development services and design engineering related to the list of knowledge-based products and specialized knowledge-based services) by the company through Contract.
Note: Companies that at the commercialization stage are the first knowledge-based company, if they have a successful pilot production and have obtained standards from domestic or international authorities, and have a reliable market or a validated call notification. With the contract of production of goods, are excluded from compliance with paragraph 1-2.
5. The insurance record for at least 3 full-time employees is at least 6 months.
B) proprietary indicators
The applicant company must, in addition to having public indicators, also have all the specific conditions in one of the following categories:
1. Knowledge-based goods manufacturing companies
2. The company must produce the goods or knowledge-based goods in accordance with the list of knowledge-based products approved by the working group that they have provided them in the form of new or upgraded goods in the last two years and their technical knowledge through the transfer or creation of technical know-how through Institutional research and development activities

    Criteria for recognizing knowledge based products

According to the rules, the three criteria of knowledge based products are:
It has a technical background and its production requires targeted research and development, by a technically qualified team, in the field of high and medium technology, and also research and development to maintain competitive ability of that product in the market, as Continuing to be done and the major added value of that commodity, the service of technical knowledge and ... technological innovation.
Therefore, according to the "Companies' and Knowledge Based Benefit Recognition Code, the applicant companies must, in addition to obtaining the conditions specified in the public indicators (including the acquisition of the minimum income derived from the sale of technology, goods and services, knowledge base, force Human and employee insurance history) will also meet all the conditions specified in the indexes of this Code.
According to the "Code of Knowledge Detection of Companies and Foundations" approved by the Working Group on the Assessment and Qualification of Firms and Knowledge Based Organizations and Supervision of Implementation, one of the prerequisites for producing and knowledge-based companies is the production of knowledge-based goods. According to two approaches, these products were identified

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