TEHRAN - Vice President for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi has traveled to Tashkent to discuss developing technological cooperation with Uzbekistan’s Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov.

Dehqani Firouzabadi has been invited to attend the International Inno-week 2023, IRNA reported.

He is also scheduled to meet Uzbekistan’s industry minister.

Apart from visiting the exhibition in which 25 Iranian knowledge-based companies are taking part, Dehqani Firouzabadi plans to visit the Iran House of Innovation and Technology in Tashkent, lay the groundwork for concluding several technology contracts, and expanding knowledge-based exports.

The Inno-Week of Uzbekistan has been held annually since 2018. It is attended by local and foreign companies, investors, representatives of foreign diplomatic missions, entrepreneurs, as well as representatives of ministries and departments.

This year, the event is being held from October 16 to October 20.

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, IRNA reported.

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.

These centers have already been set up in countries such as Russia, Turkey, China, Syria, Kenya, Armenia, and Iraq.

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