Admission at ISTT follows three stages: a six-month pre-incubation period for teams that do not yet have a legal entity; a three-year incubator stay for young technology firms; and location in Sheikh Bahaei or Abourihan science parks for grown companies. Parks benefit from free-zone-style tax and labour rules, including a 20-year tax exemption from the date of settlement.
Membership ladder
Three stages of admission
6 months
Pre-incubation
Graduate teams and entrepreneurial nuclei without a legal entity yet
Shared office, mentoring, training and a modest support grant
Help to form a company, complete the team and write a business plan
Patent advice for filings in Iran and abroad
3 years
Incubators
Young private firms and industrial R&D units with a technology idea and a market
Office and workshop space, labs, library and business services
Service and research credits; help to win industrial contracts
Valuation of know-how and introductions to investors
Grown companies
Science parks
Mature technology firms, engineering houses, labs, pilot plants and corporate R&D
Multi-tenant buildings or land plots (from about 400 m²)
Free-zone tax, charges and labour rules; 20-year tax exemption
International connections, IP support and shared campus services
Parks on campus
Specialised and satellite incubators include ICT, steel, art and media (with Isfahan University of Art), agriculture and natural resources, culture and creative industries, urban management (with Isfahan Municipality), and off-campus sites such as Najafabad and Shahreza. A children’s and adolescents’ science park was the first of its kind in the country.
Sheikh Bahaei Science Park
Iran’s first comprehensive science park with definite Ministry of Science approval (2007). About 40 hectares, with separate plots and 94 independent units in multi-tenant buildings, beside Isfahan University of Technology.
Abourihan Science Park
About 21 hectares of plots for technology units, with workshop complexes and an incubation building already in use.
Oil, gas, petrochemicals and energy
A specialised park aligned with the Ministry of Petroleum; from 2021 it has continued as the Oil Industry Innovation and Technology Campus.
Steel and metal industries
Four working groups — mining and extraction, smartisation, non-ferrous metals and advanced materials — to complete the steel supply chain with knowledge-based firms.
Agriculture and environment
Member companies in agricultural inputs, livestock, poultry, aquaculture, water and the environment, under Sheikh Bahaei park management.
Information and communications technology
Built on Iran’s first specialised ICT incubator. Priority fields include cloud, data analytics, IoT, cybersecurity, AI, 5G, AR/VR, blockchain and edge computing.