Tehran, IRNA – A senior economic official says that the Iranian Foreign Ministry has adopted a special chapter for knowledge-based enterprises in the area of public diplomacy.

Mehdi Safari, the deputy foreign minister for economic diplomacy, made the remarks in his interview with IRNA.

During the interview, Safari referred to innovation houses as places for fostering export markets for the KBEs.

Iranian Foreign Ministry, with the help of the Vice-Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-based Economy, makes efforts to establish and develop innovation houses in order to provide the ground for the domestic innovation products to have an active presence in the export markets, the official announced.

Further, Safari underlined the importance of getting much more familiarized with the international markets.

All economic Iranian envoys in foreign countries are tasked to cooperate with the knowledge-based companies and support them in the target countries, Safari noted.

He went on to say that the innovation houses in the target countries would act as centers for dispatching Iranian products to the neighboring states.

“Our endeavor is to cooperate with the knowledge-based enterprises and support them beyond the borders,” the official stressed.

Elsewhere, he referred to the recently-held meeting with the participation of D-8 countries in Pardis Technology Park in northeast Tehran and said such meetings will help exchange of technology.

The Developing Eight D-8 members include Iran, Turkiye, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Egypt, and Nigeria.

Reportedly, Iranian innovations houses as centers for development of exports of the KBEs products have already been launched in China, Syria, Russia, Turkiye, and Kenya.

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