Uzbekistan Welcomes Cooperation with Iranian Knowledge-Based Firms, Startups
Development of direct cooperation between the knowledge-based companies of the two countries and joint startup projects are among the agreements between the two sides during the meeting which paves the ground for activities of the Iranian and Uzbek startups in both neighboring states.
Iranian Vice-President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi announced that a science and technology park will be established jointly by Iran and Uzbekistan in the city of Samarkand.
The park will be created by the private sector, he added on the sidelines of the meeting in Tashkent with Uzbek Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov.
A number of knowledge-based companies and startups will launch the science and technology park, Dehqani Firouzabadi said, adding that preliminary studies and negotiations will start within the next two months.
Abdurakhmonov, for his part, said that the park will be created in the vicinity of Samarkand University.
On June 18, the Iran House of Innovation and Technology (iHiT) in the city of Tashkent was inaugurated, aimed at introducing knowledge-based, technological, and creative products of Iran to Uzbekistan, and facilitating scientific interactions and cooperation between the two countries.
The private sector invested about $4 million to establish the iHiT Tashkent.
The two sides signed a technological cooperation agreement worth $10 million in the field of energy under the support of the house of innovation and technology.
Exporting technological products of Iranian knowledge-based companies is one of the important and key programs of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, and in this regard over the past years, with the support of the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology, the Iranian houses of innovation have been set up in several countries to develop the global market for knowledge-based products.
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