Secretary of energy technologies development headquarter regarded the most important challenge of knowledge-based companies to be the development and access to domestic and foreign markets.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Sirous Vatankhah, secretary of energy technologies development headquarter, stated about the measures taken to develop and strengthen active knowledge-based companies in the area of energy, expressing: based on the regulations on balanced missions of technology development leaders, one of the six main missions of the energy headquarter is the development of new knowledge-based businesses. In this regard, measures have been taken such as creation and development of knowledge-based companies in the value chain of the economic sections, improvement of interactions between knowledge-based companies and large industrial and service companies of the country, development of entrepreneurship ecosystem and creation of innovation accelerators and holding entrepreneurial events to support the current of knowledge-based startups. These activities have been put on the agenda of the headquarter according to the qualitative and quantitative development of knowledge-based companies in the value chain of energy field of the country.

Regarding the most important challenges of knowledge-based companies, Vatankhah affirmed: with regard to the close and daily interactions between the energy headquarter and knowledge-based companies of the field, a number of challenges affect the development of these enterprises every day. However, these problems vary depending on the growth stage of the companies.

Secretary of energy technologies development headquarter also mentioned: nevertheless, the necessary infrastructures of this field do not exist in the country. Therefore, one of the main missions of the energy headquarter is support of development of the market through clarification, accumulation of data and informing government demands and cooperating with adjusting organizations to create demand and maintain the national market in the knowledge-based area.