Tehran – Afghanistan knowledge-based companies are permitted to be registered with Iran under the same conditions as Iranian companies.
Specific standards and standards are required. They must also acquire science graduates, Isna quoted Hossain Roosebe as saying.
Officials made their remarks Saturday while addressing the first meeting of Afghanistan elites.
The country supports non-Iranian elites, including Afghans, as immigrants and Afghan students are talented and their research and scientific potential is quite high.
“Organisations for the development of international cooperation in science and technology are aimed at exporting Iran’s innovation and technology ecosystem, benefiting from these capabilities. So we are a non-Iranian elite. We welcome your cooperation with us,” Roosebe said.
Notable growth in knowledge-based companies
The significant and fast growth in the number of knowledge-based companies, which has only increased 200% over the past year (March 2023 to March 2024), shows the country’s solid foundation, dynamism and growth in innovation . And technology and productive atmosphere have become available with the goal of boosting domestic production by revealing domestic production.
The current administration emphasizes quantitative and qualitative development of knowledge-based companies. The number of approximately 5,000 companies before the current administration took office in August 2021 now reached 10,000, totaling $2 billion.
Science diplomacy
In July 2022, Deputy Minister Payman Salehi said that, despite US sanctions, more than 35% of Iranian articles on the Scorpus were increasing year by year, with international activities of Iranian scientists increasing year by year despite US sanctions, more than 35% of Iranian articles on the Scorpus being multinational projects. He said it is.
Scientific diplomacy is the use of scientific cooperation between countries to address common issues and to build constructive international partnerships.
This is a new form of diplomacy, and has become the umbrella term for many formal or informal technical, research-based, academic, or engineering exchanges in the general field of international relations. .
The previous National Budget Bill for 1402 (March to March 2023) designated approximately 37 trillion rials ($60 million) for science and technology.
The bill increased the budget by 35% year-on-year, Isna reported.
The Vice President of Science and Technology was established in 2006 with the aim of creating an environment to support knowledge-based companies and provide an environment for the development of the technological industry.
To date, more than 8,000 knowledge-based companies have been established nationwide.
Over the past few years, the concept of a “knowledge-based company” has changed to a “knowledge-based society.” In other words, supporting knowledge-based companies means that it leads to many social and economic benefits for the general public.
Ayatollah Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Revolution, emphasized the importance of boosting domestic production. The reason for this is to “support economic growth, generate jobs, reduce inflation, increase per capita income, and improve public welfare.”
To this end, the Vice President of Science and Technology has implemented and supported several projects towards the goal of increasing knowledge-based production.
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