Our Entrepreneurship Rules Are Fifty Years Ago!
Deputy Minister of Labor cited the sales of knowledge-based companies in Iran more than 10,000 billion tomans and said: "The executive and governance system of the country has not entered the entrepreneurial period and our entrepreneurial rules and regulations are from fifty to sixty years ago."
On the sidelines of the third National Conference on Entrepreneurship at Sharif University of Technology, Issa Mansouri said today: "In our view, the executive and governance system of the country has not entered the entrepreneurial wave and, despite the fact that we are talking about entrepreneurship, has entered the policy field. We are not an entrepreneur, and many of our rules and regulations in this area are from fifty to sixty years ago.
"To offset the centrality of the governance system and focus on platforms and ecosystems across disciplines, we turned to the creation of National Entrepreneurship Foundations, the last of which was the National Foundation for Artificial Intelligence, Blackjack and the Internet of Things, and we tried to work in different areas," he said. Understand and develop the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Using the capacity of the private sector in entrepreneurship development
The deputy minister of entrepreneurship development and employment, referring to the use of private sector capacity in setting up these foundations, said: "It is good to start with one hand, but we believe that in the field of entrepreneurship education and development, the focus should be on the private sector. Used the capacity of the private sector.
Mansouri said: "In the field of content production, we have startups like the longtime animated animation and we have tried to develop it elsewhere, so in Kurdistan we use the capacity of the province in Kurdish to produce this animation and help you earn it. increase.
Sale of 10,000 Billion Tomans of Knowledge Based Companies in Iran
He informed about the activity of 660 knowledge-based companies in the country and said: The income from these companies is more than ten billion dollars and fifty-six thousand people work in science and technology parks, 80% of whom are experts And over twenty-eight percent of them are masters and PhDs.
"We at the Ministry of Labor are looking to institutionalize entrepreneurship as a policy maker and focus on creating a specific entrepreneurial ecosystem to compensate for the constraints that lie ahead," he said.
The internship plan was carried out by the herd of the formal education system
Mansouri said: "Because of our grumble about the formal education system, we proposed things like internships." Internship is more than just learning a skill, it is a practical exercise of the entrepreneurial experience, and in this respect, another work we have started is to start entrepreneurship from our pre-school period so that creativity can be transferred and experienced.
According to Mansouri, the mechanism currently in place at the Ministry of Labor is focused on the three areas of implementing a graduate program, creating a specialized entrepreneurship ecosystem and identifying talent from pre-school age.
He said: "Unfortunately, there has not been a good thing in the field of entrepreneurship development and we have not had the opportunity to experience it. So we hope to develop entrepreneurial activities through the set of entrepreneurial cafes, national entrepreneurship foundations and pre-school education." And help the startups flourish.
Rahim Saranghi, Director General of Entrepreneurial Development and Labor Productivity, Ministry of Labor, also on the sidelines of the event, pointing out the challenges and concerns of entrepreneurs in the country, said: Improving the business environment in the country requires that different institutions in government and private sector collectively To eliminate unnecessary laws.
"We now have an index called Business Space Improvement, which is the story of startups, because besides the business environment that is bothering them at the start of any new and innovative business, they are having trouble breaking the rules," he said.
Promoting Iran's Entrepreneurship Rank in the World from Eighty-Five to Seventy-two
The Director of Entrepreneurship Development and Labor Productivity at the Ministry of Labor, in response to a question about Iran's world entrepreneurship rankings, said: "Our Global Entrepreneurship Index was eighty-five, and now we have reached seventy-two. This is due to education and youth entry into entrepreneurship Not because our ecosystem has improved in this area, but let's not forget the positive things have happened in the field of entrepreneurship in the country and we see that in every area there are a number of startups and start-ups. Although many of our neighbors, such as Turkey, are ahead of the global rankings of entrepreneurship, we have been among the top five countries in recent years to have advanced twelve.
The need to reform the laws on start-ups and start-ups
"If we facilitate the laws and regulations we need for taxis, but will these laws also hurt the startups in the field of transportation," Colonel emphasized the need to reform start-up laws. Naturally, not because start-ups have different rules of thumb and their business rules, and these two issues are generally different, one because of the lack of activity with the existing rules, and the second because of the improved business environment and thus start-ups. They want their own rules.
* ISNA
