Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - Israel is actively promoting the development of an ecosystem of entrepreneurship and start-ups in Uzbekistan. So, the project “Business Laboratory” in November 2016 studied innovation in Israel to determine the factors of technological success of this country.

According to Hikmat Abdurakhmanov, one of the founders of the Business Laboratory project, 90% of those described in a decree dated 11/29/2016 by President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the establishment of the Ministry of Innovative Development have been implemented and are working in Israel. The embassy participated in Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) twice in 2017 and 2018. In the framework of cooperation with the Ministry of Innovative Development this year, the Embassy also participates in the second week of Innoweek-2019 innovation, which takes place in Uzbekistan on October 29-31.

At the invitation of the Ministry of Innovative Development of Uzbekistan, Dan Shekhtman, professor of Technion, a leading Israeli University of Technology, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Opening of Quasicrystals, will visit Dan from 3 to 9 November. The professor’s alma mater is named one of the ten universities with the highest percentage of Nobel laureates among the teaching staff. And the only non-American university in this rating is Professor Shekhtman who will give lectures at the universities of Tashkent and Samarkand, settle the IT park, the Center for Advanced Studies of Uzbekistan, the first presidential school for gifted children in Uzbekistan.

Professor Schechtman is active in educational activities around the world. Every year, the professor visits dozens of universities around the world with lectures. The lectures of the professor are devoted not only to chemistry, but also to the development of the entrepreneurial spirit among young scientists. The professor pays special attention to the development of the so-called "technological" entrepreneurship. For more than 25 years, Professor Schechtman has been teaching technology entrepreneurship to engineers and scientists around the world.

According to the professor, technological entrepreneurship is uniquely universal. In order for it and its principles to be established, the state needs educated people, especially scientists, engineers, doctors, specialists in computer technologies. And in every country in which there are such people, it is possible to promote and develop such entrepreneurship. In his lectures, the professor talks about how he works in this direction and share the experience of adaptation in various countries.

The scientist also advocates for the popularization of chemistry in society, a closer contact between universities and schools in the preparation of future chemists. “When they ask me in which field it is worth conducting research in order to become a Nobel laureate, I advise you to study biology, biochemistry and related sciences,” Dan Shekhtman shared. This is such a complex and confusing field that there will be enough research areas for even one generation. ”

The first meeting of Professor Shekhtman with scientists and journalists of Uzbekistan took place last year. The professor gave a lecture for the winners of the Start Haifa contest, which was held in December 2018 in Haifa.

Among the winners of the competition were representatives of Uzbekistan, Dr. Amir Abidov. The visit of the professor will undoubtedly contribute to the popularization of science among the young population of the country and the development of the innovative ecosystem of Uzbekistan.