Mongolian Academy of Sciences and M-ICP agreed to cooperate for Innovation

Date:  Fri, 2010-08-27

Mongolian Academy of Sciences and M–ICP agreed to cooperate for Innovation

Ulaanbaatar – 27 August, 2010 –– Tripartite meeting was held in the Mongolian Academy of Sciences yesterday. The meeting was attended by Professor B. Enkhtuvshin, President of Mongolian Academy of Sciences (MAS), Mr. Ch. Otgochuluu, Director of Economic Competitiveness Policy and Research Center (ECRC) and Ms. D. Nergui, Founding CEO of M–ICP.

All parties agreed to cooperate in the area of mutual interest for development of Mongolia through innovation promotion and innovation commercialization. During this meeting Professor B. Enkhtuvshin expressed his personal appreciation for M–ICP initiative to create an environment for greater access of Mongolian businesses, government, and communities to global knowledge and technologies, for ensuring increased access of the rest of world for Mongolian heritable innovation and for M–ICP plan in partnership with M·CAM, USA to create innovation financing infrastructure, infrastructure for trade–credit offsets in particular.

Parties agreed to support the government initiative to organize a High level workshop on “Innovation and Technology” in September 2010 and agreed to invite M·CAM leadership to this workshop.

At the end of this meeting it was agreed to sign Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation between MAS and M–ICP.

Mongolian Academy of Sciences has decades of history and is the main science and technology institution of Mongolia with 21 research institutes and centers.

Economic Competitiveness Policy and Research Center was founded in 2010 with the primary goal of producing Mongolia Competitiveness Report jointly with World Competitiveness Center in Switzerland. ECRC is one of Alliances of M–ICP.

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