In recent years, different countries and communities started to rely on future studies for planning and management programming. With the emergence of diverse technologies each day, the importance of future studies has become clearer than ever before. Technology foresight is an integral part of decision and policy making at the top level of governance, especially in countries with governmental economics such as Iran which is one of such countries with complicated economic and governmental systems in many areas. For Iran as a developing country, one of the most important sections of technology foresight is planning and decision making on R&D project selection. The present study focuses on introducing a new line in this part of future studies in the country. To this end, a model is established and SWARA method is applied for evaluating the model. SWARA is a new effective MADM method for evaluating criteria at the top level of decision and policy making bodies. The most important part of this study is about identifying the importance of criteria and sub-criteria of the established model for R&D projects selection in Iran. This research proposes a general framework for starting a new horizon in research activities in Iran.

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