26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

Nowadays all companies around the word are considering about their costs in different parts. They are searching for different ways to decrease their overhead costs. So most of the big companies moved their product lines to some countries such as China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and India to access to the cheaper employee (manpower). One of the important and high cost parts in the companies is the R&D departments. In this part we need special experts that we know them as knowledge workers. Employing knowledge workers in R&D departments is very expensive in the developed countries in Europe, North America and etc. Since the prime cost (final cost) is very important to compete with competitors in the market, we should find some solutions to decrease the R&D costs, same as producing costs that we found cheap employee. One solution is to use the potential that exist in some under developing and less developed countries. In the other hand, we have a lot of expert knowledge workers with high university degree in some countries such as Turkey, India, Brazil & Iran and we can employ these experts with very cheaper costs in comparison with developed countries. In this study we are focusing on knowledge workers for establish the collaboration R&Ds in Iran on based on our previous studies about collaboration R&Ds. Our solution is to lunch the collaboration R&D in these developing countries such as Iran to use the cheaper expert knowledge workers to reduce the overhead costs.