TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that his country is robustly after developing its innovative economy, adding that 200 more new technology-based domestic startups (NTBFs) will get activated in the next Iranian year (to start March 20).
“The number of NTBFs will hit 5,000 at large,” Sattari said in his visit to Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province, reported Fars News Agency.
Moving in the path of the technology-based economy and domestic startups should pave the way for the development and progress of Iran, he said, adding, “taking advantage of capacities and potentials of each region and developing NTBFs will pave the way for the development and progress in the country.”
Sattari further noted that the development of startups plays a leading and important role in cutting dependency of the country to foreign countries.
Taking advantage of high potentials and capacities of the manpower should be taken into consideration as well, he stressed.
Iran has taken wide strides in science and technology, particularly in medical and medicinal fields, in recent years.
Last month, Sattari said, “We are the superior power in the region and Asia in biotechnology.”
Last week, the media announced that Iranian scientists at a startup have succeeded in the production of a 3D scanner to capture in three dimensions the full body of a person.
“The scanner can give the 3D model of a body. The system consists of two parts of a rotary platform and a sensor tower,” Mohammad Sadeq Shahabadi, the CEO of the company, said.
He said that for taking a 3D scan, a person should stand on the platform and the 3D sensor starts operation; then the rotary platform rotates so that the sensor can record the specifications of all parts of the body, adding that at last, the software will display the 3D model of a person.
- source : Iran Daily, Irannews
