Official: Iranian Companies Export 1.5 Billion Dollars of Knowledge-Based Products
“The increase in the exports of knowledge-based companies from nearly $869 million, two years ago, to about $1.5 billion in the past year, a 212% increase in the value of joint international research and development projects, and a 42% increase in cooperation with Iranian experts and entrepreneurs abroad are among the achievements of the Center in the previous year,” Mirabadi said.
He added that the exports of livestock vaccines and agricultural fertilizers to Kenya and Uganda, an agreement to establish service centers for agricultural drones in the two Africa countries, and the establishment of an exhibition center for knowledge-based products in Uganda were also among the other activities of the Center last year.
Noting that last year a contract worth over $90 million for the exports of knowledge-based products was also signed with Venezuela, Mirabadi said that sending educational teams of top university professors in the field of nanotechnology to the Latin American state, establishing a joint technology and innovation center between Iran and Venezuela, setting up an exhibition of the knowledge-based achievements of Iran were other measures adopted by the Center.
Earlier, in June, Mirabadi had announced the expansion of joint science and technology cooperation with Venezuela.
"During the recent visit of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Venezuela, the Iranian Knowledge- based company sent some samples of its products, and the process of registering these machines in Venezuela has started," he said.
Mirabadi pointed out that Iran and Venezuela agreed to set up a hemodialysis machine assembly line with the capacity to produce 1,000 machines per year, and stated that the manufacturing of this product would cover both Venezuela and the Latin American region.
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