program to increase technological employment; 50 thousand people are trained to enter technology parks

In a conversation with Mehr reporter, Masoumeh Khan Ahmadi said, referring to the program of the vice president of technology in the new era to increase technological employment in science and technology parks, we currently have 59 science and technology parks under the Ministry of Science, where nearly 140,000 technologists are employed. . In these 59 parks, 9,980 knowledge-based companies and 297 technology growth centers are working.

The Director General of the Policy, Planning and Development Office of Technology and Innovation of the Ministry of Science added: The issue of employment in science and technology parks is considered one of the key issues, especially in provinces that have unemployment challenges. One of the tasks of science and technology parks is to come to the aid of the provinces and be able to be the executive arm for the governorates in solving the unemployment challenge.

Khan Ahmadi named the creation of technological and innovative businesses as one of the important programs of the Vice-Chancellor of Technology and said: In this regard, the issue of improving the level of empowerment of university graduates is on the agenda of the Vice-Chancellor, and the implementation of this program has already started.

Announcing that we have a plan to empower 50,000 university graduates to work in science and technology parks this year, he said: The title of this program is TRL zero and one, and the goal of this program is that the owners of ideas or graduates who are motivated but they have no idea to be recruited and empowered in universities.

The Director General of Policy, Planning and Technology Development and Innovation Office of the Ministry of Science continued: These graduates receive support in the form of growth centers such as mentoring, training, initial financing and work space, so that these people will eventually become productive forces and suitable inputs. Become science and technology parks.

The Director General of the Policy, Planning and Development of Technology and Innovation Office of the Ministry of Science stated: Science and Technology Parks have been able to create 140,000 jobs so far, and we plan to increase this number to 500,000 jobs.

According to Mehr, the science and technology park is an organization managed by professionals and its main goal is to increase the wealth of the society by encouraging and promoting the culture of innovation and increasing the competitiveness among companies and institutions that rely on science and knowledge in the park environment. They operate.

To achieve this goal, a science park facilitates the creation and growth of innovation-based companies through growth centers and reproductive processes by motivating and managing the flow of knowledge and technology among universities, research and development centers, private companies and the market. Science parks also provide services with high added value and suitable and quality work spaces and facilities to the institutions located in the park.