Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Oil Industry Innovation and Technology Park on Monday, Sattari stressed the significant role of knowledge-based companies and startups in indigenizing the knowledge for the production of new equipment and products, saying: “The government will support research on new equipment and the private sector invests on the mass production of the final products.”

“The Petroleum Industry Research Institute can be a great platform [for working on the indigenization of equipment and products], but one cannot expect a researcher at this institute to produce a final product,” he said.

“The condition must be prepared for startups to thrive,” the official said, adding: “Technology companies provide this opportunity.”

According to Sattari, most of the investment needed for the expansion of work on new technologies must be provided by the private sector and not the government.

“The private sector needs to invest 10 times more on such projects compared to the budget that the government has spent on this park,” he stressed.

The Oil Industry Technology and Innovation Park, established on a 32-hectare land near Tehran, is a governmental and non-profit organization that aims to develop oil industry-related technologies in collaboration with universities, research and development institutes, and private companies.

Strengthening domestic production and indigenizing the knowledge and technology for the production of the products and equipment that Iran imports from other countries has become one of the major programs that the country is pursuing in recent years.

To materialize this objective, knowledge-based companies have played a noticeable part, especially in indigenizing the products and equipment applied in the oil industry, which is the major sector in the country’s national economy.

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According To Iran News, Iranian Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari inaugurated a plant manufacturing coronavirus diagnostic test kits, saying the export of the homegrown device will begin in the near future.

Sattari on Saturday opened the assembly line of domestically-developed coronavirus test kits in the city of Karaj, 30 kilometers west of Tehran.

The vice president praised local experts for manufacturing a broad range of equipment for the battle with COVID-19, including surgery room apparatuses, medical ventilators and masks, saying six local knowledge-based companies have received permission for the production of coronavirus diagnostic test kits.

Sattari said the new plant has a capacity to produce 100,000 test kits that utilize PCR (polymerase chain reaction) analysis and 2 million serologic test kits per week.

As soon as the assembly lines are promoted and the production capacity increases, Iran will become an exporter of the coronavirus diagnostic test kits, he said.

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According To Iran News, Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Affairs Sorena Sattari highlighted the Islamic Republic’s place in the Middle East region in terms of the capacity for producing biotechnological medicines.

Addressing a ceremony in the northeastern city of Mashhad on Tuesday, Sattari said currently, 22 types of biotechnological medicines are produced domestically and this has made the country unmatched in the region in terms of medical capacity.

“In addition, there are 600 biotech companies in the country, and we are Asia’s third-largest exporter of these (biotechnological) products,” the vice-president said.

All of the products have been produced under the sever sanctions, Sattari said, adding that these innovations are the outcome of the sanctions.

Back in December, Health Minister Saeed Namaki unveiled plans to inaugurate 1,000 new health and medical projects, saying the ministry has launched the second stage of a grand plan focusing on prevention of diseases.

In comments in October, he also said Iran was exporting pharmaceuticals to countries in Europe, Africa and Central Asia.

In September, secretary of Biotechnology Development Headquarter at the Iranian Vice-Presidency for Science and Technology said Iranian biopharmaceuticals were being exported to major customers like Russia, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Malaysia, and Turkey, adding that plans were underway to transfer Iranian biopharmaceuticals technology to Argentina.

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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).

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According To Iran News, Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said the Islamic Republic is ranked among the world’s top five countries in the science of chemistry.

During a visit to an exhibition of achievements of Iranian knowledge-based companies in the southern province of Bushehr on Saturday, Sattari said Iran has been ranked among the world’s top 10 countries in terms of scientific articles and among the best five nations in the field of chemistry.

Highlighting the great advances that the Iranian private sector has made in the gas and oil industry in recent years, the vice president said Iranian scientists have managed to produce all catalysts used in the oil industry inside the country.

Iran is the third largest producer of gas in the world, he added, noting that 70 percent of the country’s gas output comes from the South Pars region.

Pointing to the growing number of gas refineries, petrochemical plants and private companies in the South Pars region, Sattari said the energy-rich zone has provided a perfect market for knowledge-based companies.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has on various occasion highlighted the role of science as a means of power and development, urging efforts to maintain the pace of scientific growth in Iran despite enemy efforts to undermine it.

In April 2019, the Leader described a cut in Iran’s reliance on the export of oil as an opportunity, saying such an opportunity will be used for further reliance on internal capabilities.

“Although the sanctions pave the way for problems in certain cases, they will benefit the country if they are dealt with correctly and logically,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.

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IRAN NEWS ECONOMIC DESK

Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari has underscored the revival of the ecosystem in the country.

Speaking among some cooperatives activists, Sattari said that the country should change its approach for running the affairs.

He added petro approach causes the country to think that it can fix all things with money and this will lead to the destruction of the ecosystem.

He emphasized the existence of ecosystem infrastructures in the country, saying, “In the past 10 years and with petro money, we have destroyed the bases of ecosystem and with the assistance of knowledge and entrepreneurship spirit, we should revive this ecosystem.”

Sattari reiterated that startups do not need loans, adding there are people who are ready to risk for investment in startups and since cooperative are in control of big markets, they should first open their markets for startups and welcome any innovation in their activities.

Meanwhile during the meeting, Head of Iran Chamber of Cooperatives Bahman Abdollahi said that the ICC and Vice President for Science and Technology are to set up a joint committee.

He added, “Cooperatives are the second pillar of the national economy and currently over 94,000 cooperatives with more than 14m members are active in the country and more than 40m people take advantage of their services.

He went on to say that nine percent of occupation in the country equals 1.8m people in the cooperatives sector which indicates the vastness of cooperatives among people.

Abdollahi also noted that cooperatives in terms of quantity have grown significantly in recent years and currently, boosting quality and deepening it in the cooperatives sector is raised.

On the demands of activities of cooperatives sector, he said they are after forming knowledge-based cooperatives, easing condition and employing all capacities of the knowledge-based in the cooperatives.

Meanwhile Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare Mr. Mohammad Kabiri, for his part, said that currently two centers for innovation and developing cooperative have been inaugurated in Fars and Kurdestan provinces and they will increase to 12 provinces by the yearend.

He added during the past year, the ministry has tried to move towards innovation in the cooperative sector and the ministry has spent considerable time on the issue.

Kabiri further said that one of the actions of the ministry is to inaugurate 10 more centers in the provinces based on capacities by the yearend.

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IRAN NEWS NATIONAL DESK

According To Iran News, Iran’s Vice-President for Scientific Affairs Sorena Sattari said on Wednesday in China Hi-Tech Fair 2019 that Iran is ready to expand strategic cooperation with other countries in the field of developing new ideas, which is a good opportunity for sharing technological know-how, human resources and financial and marketing capacities.

Exchange of advanced products and technologies at the international level provided a vital opportunity to meet the challenges facing societies, said Sorena Sattari in the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Exhibition of China in Shenzhen.

Sattari said, “Therefore, cooperation of countries in the development and dissemination of technological innovations account for motivation of progress and advancements of the nations.”

He said, “Iran has always been well-known in the global public opinion as a rich country in terms of natural resources and cultural heritage.”

“Decades of reliance on domestic capabilities have made it possible for our country to take a big step in changing the picture of its previous economy into a knowledge-based economy.”

“Since the mid-1990s, innovation has become one of the most important policymaking keywords in Iran. Since then, changes have been made at the highest level of the country’s policymaking to integrate the country’s capacities for the development of scientific and technological innovation.”

He added that to keep up with the changes, the formation of infrastructures such as business incentives, accelerators, science and technology parks, science and technology special zones, research and technology funds and joint venture capital funds, eliminates the institutional gaps in Iran’s National Innovation System to a great extent.

Following two decades of scientific development efforts, Iran ranked 16th in the world in scientific publications, increased by 18 places from 2005. After this successful transition, based on the domestic demands, we have been able to have the most engineering graduates in the world, and as a result of this move, we have promoted to have an export share of high-tech and medium-high tech exports with a significant leap of $1.5b in 2005 to $12b in 2014, he said.

Saying that according to the latest Global Innovation Index report, Iran’s ranking of innovation in 2019 among the countries of the world has been improved by 60 places, he added, “The dissemination of innovation to the various economic sectors that caused them to benefit from the fruits of the knowledge-based economy, is a serious policy challenge.”

He called for addressing the challenges through deepening international cooperation in order to open access to blessings of innovation for all societies.

“Exchange of scientists, entrepreneurs and technology based on the mutual benefits of the nations, collaboration on major industrial projects based on national priorities, collaboration on the development of creative and startup solutions for different societies, sharing policy experiences on different innovation ecosystems through dialogue and joint cross financing for innovative projects at international level are different types of collaborative efforts that can be effective to foster the nation’s innovation capacity.”

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Supply of domestic oil in the form of crude has been turned into a weaknesses for the country, he said, adding, “under such circumstances, enemies of the country especially the United State, while focusing on it, imposes financial and economic sanctions against the country.”

To realize objectives of all-out economic development in the country, “we have no choice but to prevent crude selling of raw materials,” Sattari emphasized.

In modern economics, crude selling of products is regarded as a basic and fundamental weakness, he noted.

Head of Iran’s National Elites Foundation Sattari stated, “with supporting research and development (R&D) sectors and relying upon talented youth, fortunately, the country has attained favorable self-sufficiency in refinery sector.”

He also pointed to the practical and important role of knowledge-based companies in spurring economy of the country and added, “small- and medium-sized enterprises have brought about sizable revenues for those who are active in economic sector of the country.”

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“This is a result of the abundant universities and research and scientific centers in the city,” he added.

Sattari noted that Tehran’s considerable human resources, along with its immense academic potentials, grant the sprawling capital a unique opportunity to develop its innovative plans.

This is of great significance since the knowledge-based sector can greatly contribute to oiling the wheels of the economy, he said.

The 17 festival of Best Companies of Pardis Technology Park is held annually to highlight the best businesses and products developed at Tehran’s first technology park, which is located 30 km east of the capital.

The park has a stellar record and has signed collaboration deals with academia to help promote the technology sector.

Selected companies picked by a panel of industry heads will be offered meetings with investors and awarded incentives to boost their potential.

Pardis Technology Park created a decade ago, is supervised by the Vice-Presidency’s Office for Science and Technology.

Tehran currently has 21 operational technology parks across the city affiliated to universities like Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran University, and Amir Kabir University.

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