An idea-sharing meeting was held in November 14^th 2017 in Tabriz along with the fifth round of the new and advanced technologies festival and exhibition of Rabe Rashidi.

According to the public relations and information center of the Vice-Presidency for science and technology affairs, the policy-making and government units, investors, venture capitals and investment service provision centers gathered in an idea-sharing meeting as the loops of the ecosystem of knowledge-based economy, which plays an essential role in realization of missions of accelerators.

The aim of this meeting is introduction of accelerators, their goals and accelerating processes for innovation and technologists. In addition, the concerns and problems of this area were expressed to be solved and improve the performance of accelerators.

Lectures and meetings of this event included introducing accelerators and their roles in the ecosystem of knowledge-based economy, presenting reports on the performance of accelerators, expressing the perspectives of policy-making units toward accelerating processes, stating the concerns of investors about their interactions with accelerators, mentioning the concerns of venture capitals about their interactions with accelerators, introducing science and technology charity and role of donors in support of accelerators and expressing the needs and concerns of startups in accelerating process.

The idea-sharing meeting was held November 14^th 2017 along with the innovation and technological exhibition of Rabe Rashidi “RINOTEX2017”.

The fifth new and advanced technologies festival and exhibition of Rabe Rashidi was held November 11^th-16^th, 2017 at the location of the international exhibition of Tabriz with the support of knowledge-based economy, technology and science development headquarter.