According to the communication and information center in the Vice Presidency of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, the meeting of the Iranian Entrepreneurs Forum was held on Monday, with the presence of Ruhollah Dehghani, the Vice President of Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy. A group of entrepreneurs and industry owners were present in this meeting and expressed their views and concerns.

In this meeting, Dehghani pointed out that the main priority of the vice presidency of science in the new period is to pay serious attention to the economy of knowledge-based companies and create a market for these businesses, adding: Simultaneously with the implementation of the law on the support of knowledge-based companies and institutions approved in 2010, a trend in the country It was decided that its purpose is to seriously support the companies that are active in the field of manufacturing technological products and services. A few years later, parallel to this flow, another flow called startup entrepreneurship was launched and added to the knowledge-based flow, which also had advantages. The startup entrepreneurship flow was mainly centered on businesses in the field of information technology and digital economy. Of course, this trend continued to bring problems. But we should not forget that what has priority in the path of these two flows and should be given more serious attention is the flow of supporting knowledge-based companies, and in this regard, we are seriously pursuing the creation of a market for knowledge-based companies.

The vice president of science, technology and knowledge-based economy, emphasizing the existence of a specialized investment institution in accordance with the output and size of large and capable knowledge-based companies and entrepreneurs in this field, stated: the existence of a large and capable investment and financing institution in the dimensions and sizes of a bank, it is necessary both in a specialized way and in accordance with the requirements of knowledge-based companies. We are trying to obtain approvals and approvals in order to set up a venture bank or specialized bank for knowledge-based companies and entrepreneurs in the field of technology.

He stated that the ecosystem of technology, innovation and knowledge-based economy of the country today has reached the size and maturity to be able to create a specialized financial structure in the dimensions of a knowledge-based venture bank, adding: considering the activity of more than 10 thousand knowledge-based companies and more than 500 thousand active human resources in the ecosystem of technology and innovation and knowledge-based economy, there are very good fields and capacity to provide capital and finance the ecosystem of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship by a knowledge-based venture bank, so that at least one hundred thousand billion Tomans will be the capital year of this bank.

The head of the National Elites Foundation, referring to the necessity of valuing intangible assets, said: most of the value and assets of large companies are among their intangible assets, and as long as practical concepts such as intellectual property, intangible assets, intellectual capital and if it is not applied in the country, the knowledge-based economy will not make sense.

Dehghani considered the new system of evaluating and supporting knowledge-based companies as a new path for accurate valuation and intelligent support that is appropriate to the conditions of each company and added: a set of policies is adopted by the vice presidency of science, based on the law, to prevent companies from selling raw materials. Drive towards investing in technology. Technology must be attractive to investors and entrepreneurs, otherwise it will not be attractive to industry and entrepreneurs alone.

The vice president of science, technology and knowledge-based economy stated: In the regulations of the Knowledge-Based Production Leap Law, it is stipulated that money will be allocated to start-up knowledge-based companies, and targeted exemption tax credit is specific to companies that need support for research and development. Innovative companies can benefit from tax exemptions up to 10 billion Tomans, but the tax credit is only for innovative and technological companies that take big steps in the path of research and development.

Referring to the creation of tax credit payment guarantees for the peace of mind of companies in the path of innovative and technological research and development, he said: a fund is going to be launched by December, which guarantees the allocation of tax credits to knowledge-based companies, and the companies will pay and don't worry about research and development.