Arka News Agency, Armenia
March 2 2007

ARMENIA’S SCIENCE MUST BE COMMERCIALIZED

YEREVAN, March 2. /ARKA/. Armenia’s scientific sector must be
commercialized, Rector of Yerevan State University Aram Simonyan told
reporters.
"Considering a great potential of scientific work in Armenia, this is
a necessary condition for us," he said.
According to Simonyan, one of the means of commercializing science is
to create an incubator to develop this direction in Armenia’s
scientific sector.
"Intellectual potential is Armenia’s `trum card’ in economic
development, and needs special attention," Simonyan said.
A total of AMD 5.5bln are budgeted Armenia’s scientific sector. P.T.
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