Official: IHITs will increase from 7 to 12 in foreign countries by this year’s end

Head of Iran’s International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Expansion Organization Amir Hossein Mirabadi says late Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi considered diplomacy as highly important, adding that the president had called for assisting knowledge-based companies in exports of their products to the very end. 

Mirabadi noted that President Raisi also sought to expand export infrastructure and to this end, many steps were taken by the 13th administration. He made those remarks at the internationalization camp of knowledge-based, creative, and innovative companies that was held on June 11 and 12 with the managers of the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Expansion Organization in Isfahan. 

Pointing to the importance of the issue of boosting knowledge-based exports, Mirabadi said, “We need new methods and ideas when it comes to export and that’s why in the International Science and Technology Cooperation Expansion Organization, we tried to create tools and the necessary infrastructure and also use the platform of government cooperation, such as the capacities of the commissions, existing high-ranking trips or the private sector to help this sector. 

He added that the late President Raisi was the flag-bearer of the expansion of technology diplomacy and made many efforts to achieve this goal. 

Mirabadi also said holding a staff supervision meeting at the Iran House of Innovation and Technology shows the president cared a lot about international cooperation. 

The head of the International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Expansion Organization underlined that during the tenure of President Raisi, he issued two specific orders and demanded their follow-up. 

He said one order was the development of export infrastructure in the presidency’s Office of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy and the expansion of export network abroad with the aim of increasing the selection of knowledge-based companies and the diversity of their target markets. 

The other order issued by the late president, according to Mirabadi, was to support the companies to the very end so that exports would materialize. 

He also said over the past week, Iran and Venezuela signed a contract to establish a joint technology and innovation center, adding that Iran now has active technology and innovation houses in 7 countries, which will increase to 12 houses by the end of this year.