In the first six months of 2017, more than 5500 applications have been recorded by the US Patent Office (USPO) for the nanotechnology-related patents. The US and East Asian countries including Korea, Japan and Taiwan have been the largest contributors. Iran is also ranked 22nd in this ranking.

According to StatNano statistics, nearly 74,000 nano articles are indexed in the Web of Science database by the mid-2017. In this regards, Iran has been ranked 5th among the global countries by publishing 4200 articles (about 5.7% of all publications).

ECO-Nano meeting was held on January 25, 2017 in place of Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council. The heads of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), a number of representatives and ambassadors of member countries and authorities of the Iran Nanotechnology Innovation Council participated in the meeting.