Industry minister’s deputy for high-tech industries:Industry Ministry to Invest Rls. 1,700b in High-Tech Projects
The deputy minister of industries and mines for implementing high-tech projects stated that the ministry has invested over 1,700 billion rials during the past eleven years in four fields of high-tech industries.
Mr. Esmaeil Saeivar added that the four fields of industries and mines ministry’s plans include supporting the development of innovation in high-tech industries, supporting the improvement of technology in high-tech and electronic industries, supporting the promotion of high-tech industries, and supporting the creation of special zones for establishing high-tech industries in the vicinity of scientific and industrial hubs. Related officials have specially supported each of the high-tech plans, he said.
In the field of supporting innovations in high-tech industries, which was started in 2007, some 195 billion rials has been invested by the end of the past Iranian year (March 2011) in 118 projects. Four of the projects have been so far completed.
Saeivar referred to the plan for supporting the improvement of technology in high-tech and electronic industries as another objective of the ministry of industries and mines for promoting and expanding high-tech industries, saying that the plan, which is known as the “improvement” plan and is the oldest plan of the ministry of industries and mines in the field of high-tech industries, some 224 high-tech industries, costing 712 billion rials, have been supported from 2008 till 2009.
The third underway plan of the ministry of industries and mines in the field of high-tech industries is the plan is the plan for supporting the promotion of high-tech industries which was started in 2002. According to Saeivar, the deputy minister of industries and mines for implementing high-tech projects, 110 projects in the frame of this plan, costing 555 billion rials, have been supported by the end of the past year, of which 73 have been so far completed.
“The plan for establishing special zones for high-tech industries in the vicinity of scientific and industrial hubs was launched in 2005, based on which 13 projects, costing 292 billion rials, have been defined,” Saeivar stated.
He concluded saying that some three thousand research and academic projects have been so far referred to the industries and mines ministry’s center for high-tech industries, of which some one thousand projects have been approved. A number of the approved projects (including bone and heart bio-implants) have been supported, commercialized and reached large scale production, but a majority of the projects have remained in research and sample production stages.
It should be noted that high-tech projects of the ministry of industries and mines are funded through governed capitals and their implementation has been transferred by ministry of industries and mines to Mr. Hedayat, the managing director of the Industrial Development and Renovation Organization.
