Iran Vice president says Tehran pursuing long-term goals in knowledge-based economic plans

Iran’s vice president for science, technology and knowledge-based economy says the country has set the goal of “planting technology and innovation trees that can bear fruit for a long time” on the agenda.

Addressing the 17th National Conference and the 13th International Conference on Technology and Innovation Management of Iran, Rouhollah Dehghani Firouzabadi said, “The main mission of the vice presidency is to plant trees for the country’s technological, innovation and economic ecosystems, which can bear fruit for many years.”

The vice president added that the products of such an intelligence management have to be “rationally and logically justified to receive support from the future generations.” 

He also argued that in order to make the plan sustainable in the future, it has to be bear different kinds of fruit and have several parties of interest involved.

Dehghani Firouzabadi also commended the Iranian Association for Management of Technology (IRAMOT) for taking effective steps in technology and innovation ecosystem during the past two decades.