16th GLOBAL FORUM TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN IN AUTUMN 2007

Noyan Tapan
Apr 26 2006

YEREVAN, APRIL 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The 16th Global Forum, which is one of
the biggest annual international forums of the innovation sector, will
be held in Yerevan in the autumn of 2007. NT correspondent was informed
about it from Ashot Khandanian, Head of the Science, Technologies
and Innovation Policy Department of the RA Ministry of Trade and
Economic Development. He noted that Global Forum’s organizer – the
management of the largest Sophia Antipolis Technopark Foundation (Nice,
France) proposed the Armenian government holding the forum in Yerevan
in 2007. The European Commission and ITEMS International company
(France) specialized in information and communication technologies
(ICT) advisory services are the forum organizers as well. According
to A. Khandanian, the proposal to hold a Global Forum in Yerevan is
indicative of the fact that Armenia is gradually becoming a country of
science. He noted that ministers of countries – the world’s leaders in
the innovation sector and managers of a number of large companies that
create and use innovation production will participate in the forum.