Official: 15 Foreign Countries Participate in INOTEX 2024 Expo in Iran
“In INOTEX 2024, we witnessed the presence of 450 knowledge-based companies and 44 new knowledge-based products were unveiled in the Pishgaman (Pioneers) Pavilion in the presence of the country's executive officials,” Sajjad Fashami told reporters.
He added that a total of 5 event stages were held in the exhibition and 20 experts addressed the audience in the field of technology.
“About 15 countries, including Canada, the Netherlands, Turkey, Russia and Malaysia, have had representatives in the form of visitors and exhibitors at the INOTEX exhibition,” Fashami said.
“Nearly 47% of the companies present at the INOTEX 2024 exhibition were large technological companies, and 20% of the companies were smaller startups,” he stated.
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INOTEX 2024, the innovation and technology exhibition, opened at Tehran's Pardis Science and Technology Park on May 7 in the presence of Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi.
Delivering a speech in the opening ceremony, Dehqani Firouzabadi described the INOTEX as a good event and a pivot for bringing all Iranian technological ecosystems together so that it could accelerate the rapid development of Iran's innovation.
He said that there are 10,000 knowledge-based companies in the country that have more than 530 billion Tomans in sales and have had exports 3 times more than last year.
Knowledge-based companies have registered $2.5 billion of exports, Dehqani Firouzabadi added.
He noted that last year 43 foreign delegations were hosted by Iran, and underlined the country's readiness to share its knowledge-based experiences and cooperate to have joint tech parks.
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