of applications, 327 cases (30.4%) were approved, 240 were filed and 67 were patented and 139 inventions were obtained. See also: Intellectual property in Iran D) Supplying the research equipment needed for the research Non-financial supports These supports include the following: A) Introducing the researcher to research and service centers According to mutual relations between INSF and other research, higher education centers such as universities, and their agreement to use their facilities and equipment, INSF introduces the researchers to the above centers in order to use the mentioned facilities. B) Granting rewards On various occasions, some rewards will be granted to the researchers and those who have presented selected proposals. C) Scientific confirmation of the researchers D) Other administrative supports Research Chair In order to implement the policies of the fourth development national program, as well as to strengthen the knowledge-based system and considering the increasing significance of research and technology and in order to improve the capacities for generation and preservation of science and technology, to support outstanding Iranian researchers, to create research capacities at national level and particularly to stop the increasing trend of brain drain and to implement the enactment of INSF board of trustees on 6 July 2005, the temporary charter for research chair was compiled as the following: Article 1: Objectives to help the creation of new research capacities especially for promising, broad-minded and farsighted researchers, to help to attract Iranian members of scientific boards and researchers residing inside or outside the country, to help to stop brain drain, to support promising researches, to help the creation of dynamic and productive scientific environments, to support training skillful and specialized forces (like MA and PhD graduates) with the purpose of improving educational quality while taking into account educational factors, to achieve new scientific findings, to train skillful and specialized forces, to increase participation in expansion of science boundaries and strengthening scientific position of the country, To carry out the needed researches to solve national problems. In order to execute the enactment of the foundation's board of trustees and to accelerate the allocation of research chairs, this program will be executed in the form of pivotal institution, in the educational year 84-85. Article 2: Definitions and Concepts Researcher: according to article 3, amendment 3 of the statute, researcher refers to true or legal persons who have knowledge experience and scientific degrees as well as research achievements and