According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, Sorena Sattari, the vice president for science and technology affairs, pointed out the necessity of serious determination of universities in support of expansion of entrepreneurship ecosystem during the visit of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, stating: the orientation that has been made in the university to support startups of knowledge-based companies will be the basis for a serious development of the province.

Sattari emphasized the role of university as the cradle of knowledge-based businesses and startup, adding: in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, successful domestic models have been implemented regarding the support of startups and knowledge-based businesses by the university, which can be known as proper model for academic and scientific centers.

The president of the national elites foundation pointed out the support of invention registration and international patents, expressing: the Vice-Presidency supports international patent registrations carried out by the patent registration associations up to 90%. This step is taken in line with the support of developing and exporting technologies.

Sattari reminded the support of development of the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem by the Vice-Presidency, asserting: despite all financial constraints and problems faced in our country, it is my duty to support the expansion of the ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship by knowledge-based and startup activists since this issue is a crucial necessity for progress of the country.

The president of the knowledge-based economy and culture-building technologies development headquarter claimed: we must promote the successful models of penetration of innovation and technology into urban texture. Establishing innovation centers and startups around the universities of Tehran is one of the successful examples in this regard.

Visit of Technological Units of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad

The vice president for science and technology affairs visited the Sun Air Research Institute of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the first part of this provincial travel to Razavi Khorasan province.

Visit of Innovation Building (Final News)

Sattari visited the active startups in the innovation building (Final News). During this visit, Sattari declared: continuous innovation is necessary for continuity of startups. In the dynamic and competitive market of startups, those working in the field of innovation will be successful and survive.

According to Sattari, the biggest mistake of startups is repeating successful ideas. There are various new ideas that are unique and can lead to the formation of new startups.

The business accelerator of Ferdowsi University mainly focuses on startups working on broadcasting and new media, games, entertainments, content marketing, as well as urban and public services.

In the field of advertisement, new media and content marketing, the Final News Organization accompanies the accelerator of Ferdowsi University as an investor.

The Final News uses and expands the capacities of east of Iran and more than seven million direct audience to help startups in the cyberspace so that they could be easily introduced and presented in the east of the country.

The innovation and entrepreneurship academy of Ferdowsi is another investor of the accelerator, which has followed up the education of concept of business to the youth in the four years of its activity and currently has branches in four provinces of Iran.