Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, June 9
By Huseyn Hasanov - Trend:
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has signed a decree on establishing a center for technologies.
This will serve the "realization of science, technology and innovation policies of our country in the era of power and happiness, creation and introduction of competitive, material-and energy-efficient, environmentally safe high technologies and innovations, strengthening of interrelation between the scientific sphere and sectors of the national economy."
The center for technologies will be administered by Turkmen Academy of Sciences.
The technological park is scheduled to be opened in Ashgabat in June. It will have the modern technologies and equipment.
Turkish Polimeks Insaat Taahhut ve Sanayi Ticaret A.S. has been engaged in its construction since 2012. The technological park's project presented by Polimeks, includes a technology shop and a museum.
It is designed to promote the innovative activity and partly resembles academic towns operating during the Soviet period.
The first technology parks were created in the U.S. The first technological park in the USSR was established in the city of Tomsk in 1988, based on the experience of one of the innovative regions of France.
Turkmenistan embarked on the path of active usage of alternative energy sources, particularly solar and wind energy, and the development of nanotechnologies for the country's progressive movement.
Edited by CN
