Tehran – The National Technology Award, known as Next, should take place on February 19 and 20 in the city of Isfahan with the theme `Advanced Iran with emerging technologies’ ”
The event offers an excellent opportunity for leading companies, throwing the basis of talented young people to become more active in the country’s innovation and technology sector, IRNA quoted Saeed Sarkar, an official of vice- Presidency of science and technology, he said.
According to Sarkar, 22 innovative projects in three main areas, including advanced materials and manufacturing technologies (seven out of fifty-three projects submitted); The optical, quantum and microelectronic technologies (eight out of thirty -one projects presented) and biotechnology and precision medicine (seven out of fifty -one submitted projects) were selected for the last stage of the second edition of the National Prize, reported Irna.
The main objectives of the event include the expansion of research and development initiatives and to focus on leading and advanced technologies.
Then, also aims to converge technologies to meet economic, social and environmental challenges; support the development of technological companies; Encourage industries and large companies to use emerging technologies; And promote synergy, joint production and competition between the country’s technologists.
Iran goes up in the GII 2024 ranking
Depending on the 2024 edition of the Global Innovation Index (GII) report, the Iranic Islamic Republic classification in the production of knowledge and technology, as well as commercial sophistication are improved from 55 and 117 in 2023 to 49 and 110 in 2024, respectively.
In addition, the country’s classification in sophistication and market infrastructure increased by two positions from 19 and 97 in 2023 to 17 and 95 in 2024.
The global innovation index classifies the main global economies according to their innovation capacities.
According to this year’s report, Iran ranks second in the countries of the central region and southern Asia, unchanged from the last two years.
India and Kazakhstan ranked first and third respectively.
Iran class 5 among the 38 economies of lower-lower-lower income groups, which has improved compared to the 2023 classification (6).
As indicated in the 2024 edition, in the past four years (2020-2024), the statistical confidence interval for Iran ranking in the GII 2024 is between ranks 56 and 80.
Iran has succeeded better in the results of innovation (48) than in innovation entries (85) in 2024.
Published by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the report ranks Iran first in market capitalization and brands by Origin.
It ranks 3, 5, 8, 17, 19, 19, 23 and 35 in software expenditure, raw capital training, science and engineering graduates, market sophistication, internal market scale, intensity of intangible assets and education tertiary, respectively.
Iran (Islamic Republic of) is the highest in market sophistication (17), knowledge and technological results (49), creative results (52) and human capital and research (64).
The GII ranked Tehran as 38th largest science and technology group (S&T) in the world this year, against 35 last year, according to a report published Tuesday by the WIPO of the UN.
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