General director of the second national, cultural, and art festival of “Made in Iran” stated: the culture of this economy should be promoted for the strength and consistency of the knowledge economy. In this regard, the language of culture and art in the country is the art industry of Iran, the main pillar of Iranian culture and promotion of Iranian goods.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs quoted by the news headquarter of the second national, cultural, and art festival of “Made in Iran”, Parviz Karami, the general director of the festival, pointed out the serious steps taken by the Vice-Presidency to promote and build the culture of knowledge-based economy during the opening ceremony of the event, stating: while the Vice-Presidency is recognized with its main mission in the commercialization of technology, development of border-knowledge sciences and technologies, and support of realization of knowledge-based economy, this important notion depends on the promotion and culture-building of support of Iranian products and creation of a suitable domestic infrastructure for knowledge-based and startup businesses.  

According to the advisor to the vice president for science and technology affairs, turning the economy into a knowledge-based one must be a public concern in the society, which the most important goal of the second national, cultural, and art festival of “Made in Iran”. In this regard, the effective and penetrable language of culture and art in the Iranian society is a good method for promoting and supporting products made in Iran.

The Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs follows up the mission of developing knowledge-based economy and startups through the path of realizing the goals of the festival and supporting the Iranian products.

The second national, cultural and art festival of “Made in Iran” will be held December 25^th-29^th, 2018 with the goals of mainstreaming and content production for cyberspace related to the cycle of commercialization, entrepreneurship and knowledge-based economy, support of Iranian-made knowledge-based products and services, organizing excessive import and valuating high-quality Iranian products and services, and helping the branding of high-quality Iranian products. It should be noted that various sections of the festival include literature, visual arts, audiovisual economy, digital media and idea market and student section, which will be carried out by the efforts of the knowledge-based economy and culture-building technologies development headquarter and with the help of Parviz Karami, secretary of the mentioned headquarter.

Various programs and different parts of the festival, as well as displaying the arts have been initiated in the house of artists and will continue until December 29^th 2018.