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National knowledge transfer office to be announced in coming months

March 24, 2022

A national knowledge transfer office is set to be announced in the coming months, Chief Scientist and Research and Innovation Foundation President Nikolas Mastroyiannopoulos has told CNA, pointing out that the aim is to commercialise research outcomes and produce products and services with an international orientation so that the country’s economy can be strengthened.

In an interview with Cyprus News Agency, Mastroyiannopoulos speaks, among other things, of the funding programmes in the area of research and innovation for the next six years, the progress achieved in recent years in the field with Cyprus ranking second in Europe per capita in improvement, the fact that Cyprus has raised over €300 million from Horizon 2020”, as well as about the creation of new jobs which will keep young graduates in Cyprus and attract those who left back.

 

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