The intellectual property is the right which has the economic value of transaction but here the subject matter is not any definite material object. Our country has been poorly developed in intellectual property so that it lags behind others about one or two decades in this regard. According to the third clause of article 2 of the Act concerning objectives and duties of Ministry of Science about evaluation and approval of inventions, and also article 45 of the Act concerning the fourth program of development regarding designing the comprehensive system of intellectual property by Ministry of Science, this system has important duties beyond this sector in this domain.
In this research, the tenfold roles of higher education in the intellectual property system are formulated and the respondents’ viewpoints about the degree of importance of each are compiled. Beside these efforts, the practical experiences of 21 prestigious universities in the world, in the area of intellectual property with emphasis on the subject of invention are aggregated. At last, a collection of strategic suggestions to promote the role of Iranian higher education in intellectual property is presented.
Key words: Intellectual property,patent,Higher education,academic intellectual properties,ip education