Pardis Technology Park is an technology park, based in Pardis

Pardis

Pardis , meaning "New City of Pardis") is a city in the Central District of Tehran County, Tehran Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 25,360, in 7,228 families.Pardis is a new planned city that has absorbed over 9,775 inhabitants in 2001...

, a satellite city 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) outside of the Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 metropolitan area, in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Iran

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The park is located adjacent to a Telecommunication Company of Iran

Telecommunication Company of Iran

Telecommunication Company of Iran was established in 1971 with a new organizational structure as the main responsible administration for the entire telecommunication affairs, and Iran Telecommunication Industries was also founded in the same year to manufacture the required equipment for the...

 Satellite

Satellite

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 Earth Station

Earth station

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, at the foot of the Alborz

Alborz

Alborz , also written as Alburz, Elburz or Elborz, is a mountain range in northern Iran stretching from the borders of Azerbaijan and Armenia in the northwest to the southern end of the Caspian Sea, and ending in the east at the borders of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan...

 mountains. Land has been allocated here for the establishment of business related to technology

Technology

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. The site enjoys a panoramic view of the tallest mountain in Iran, Mount Damavand

Mount Damavand

Mount Damāvand also known as Donbavand, a potentially active volcano and the highest peak in Iran, has a special place in Persian mythology and folklore...

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Pardis Technology Park (PTP) as the region's technology paradise, under supervision of Presidency and a fourteen-entity Board of Trustees from ministries, science centers and academies, is located in a now 38 hectares area (expandable to 1000 hectares) at 25 km northeast vicinity of Tehran.
Innovation Pardis (phase No. 1) in a 20 hectares area and Knowledge Pardis (phase No.2) are two existing phases in the Park and other phases called Synergy Pardis, Creativity Pardis, Evolution Pardis, Development Pardis, Entrepreneurship Pardis and Productivity Pardis are next Phases that constitute the future stages in the expansion plan of the Park.

So far, around 70 companies have signed contracts for land at the park. 20 of them have finished construction of their R&D centers and completely located in the park and with accounting companies which are doing their business in Multi Tenant Building, PTP has more than 45 companies located in. Totally PTP has 100 Hi-Tech companies as its members in different establishment categories (Lands, Multi Tenant Building and Business Incubator).

Objectives

The park describes its objectives as:

1. "To intensify High-tech industries development.
2. "To promote Cooperation between industries academic institutions and research centers.
3. "To create synergy between private and state sectors.
4. "To commercialize know-how and innovations generated by research centers.
5. "To promote research and development activities in private sector."

Services

• Information & Communication technology Services
• Training and education
• Consulting, investing and marketing
• Banking, financing and insurance
• Laboratory and workshop
• Exhibition
• Housing and recreation
• Public welfare and environmental protection

Establishment types for technology bodies at PTP

1. Technology Incubator Building: For start up companies, university graduates and entrepreneurs with specific ideas, and lack of financial resources and work experience.
2. Multi Tenant Building (MTB): For those companies that have already started their businesses but, have restricted financial abilities and personnel.
3. Land plots: For those companies with relatively long commercial experience in the field of high technologies and, have their own laboratories, workshops, expertise and are enough able to invest and develop their commercial activities.

Data center

• Pars Online
  Pars Online
  Pars Online is an Iranian Internet Service Provider, based in Tehran, Iran. Founded in 1999 by two Iranian entrepreneurs, Pars Online has grown into what is now the dominant ISP in Iran with over 550 employees....
  
   has established the first private data center
  Data center
  A data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...
  
   in Iran, at Pardis Technology Park.

See also

• Communications in Iran
  Communications in Iran
  Iran’s telecommunications industry is almost entirely state-owned, dominated by the Telecommunication Company of Iran . Fixed-line penetration in 2004 was relatively well-developed by regional standards, standing at 22 lines per 100 people, higher than Egypt with 14 and Saudi Arabia with 15,...
  
  
• Science and technology in Iran
• Iran Software & Hardware Co. (NOSA)