TEHRAN – Iran House of Innovation and Technology (iHiT) within the metropolis of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, was inaugurated on Sunday.

The middle goals at introducing knowledge-based, technological, and inventive merchandise of Iran to Uzbekistan, and facilitating scientific interactions and cooperation between the 2 nations, IRNA reported.

Vice President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy, Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi, and Uzbekistan’s Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Innovation, Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov, formally inaugurated the middle in an internet ceremony.

The non-public sector has invested about $4 million to ascertain the iHiT Tashkent.

The two sides signed a technological cooperation settlement value $10 million within the discipline of power beneath the help of the home of innovation and expertise.

Exporting technological merchandise of Iranian knowledge-based firms is without doubt one of the necessary and key packages of the vice presidency for science and expertise, and on this regard over the previous years, with the help of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, the Iranian homes of innovation have been arrange in a number of nations to develop the worldwide marketplace for knowledge-based merchandise.

These facilities have already been arrange in nations reminiscent of Russia, Turkey, China, Syria, Kenya, Armenia, and Iraq.

By supporting revolutionary concepts, and holding technological and revolutionary occasions, the facilities shall be a platform for the event and promotion of Iranian knowledge-based firms, startups, and inventive industries.

The facilities are primarily shaped with the funding and help of the non-public sector to supply the mandatory infrastructure for his or her exports by way of innovation homes.

In February, President Ebrahim Raisi mentioned science and expertise are the cornerstones of nationwide growth.

The chain of information, analysis, innovation, and expertise ensures sustainable growth within the nation, he added.

“Our interaction with all nations and governments in the world should be for the transfer of knowledge and technology, and our interaction with all neighboring countries, in the region and globally, should be based on this criterion,” Raisi highlighted.

The Vice Presidency for Science and Technology was shaped in 2006 with the intention of making an setting for supporting knowledge-based firms and offering the bottom for the event of technological industries.

The nation’s progressing technique of growth has accelerated with the emphasis on the formation of the expertise and innovation ecosystem and the approval of legal guidelines for supporting knowledge-based firms and boosting Iran-made merchandise.

Today, we’re witnessing the optimistic results of adopting the method within the economic system, tradition, and day by day life of individuals.

The nationwide finances invoice for the present Iranian calendar yr 1402, which began on March 21, has earmarked about 37 trillion rials ($74 million) for science and expertise.

The invoice elevated the finances by 35 % in comparison with the earlier yr’s finances, ISNA reported.

Improving the scientific stage of society, reaching excessive international rankings within the variety of scientific articles, references, and patenting, decreasing the illiteracy charge, and rising the variety of college programs and college students are solely part of the achievements after the victory of the Islamic Revolution.

According to the newest statistics, greater than 8,000 knowledge-based firms are working within the nation.

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