Morocco has launched three new projects, including a €45 million (US$65 million) research fund to encourage partnerships between businesses and inventors, as part of a strategy to boost research and innovation.
The country will build four ‘innovation cities’ — science andtechnology hubs that will host research centres, specialised companies and business incubators — and set up the Moroccan Centre for Innovation(MCI) and three new funds worth US$65 million.
The funds will support grants for young researchers, and the research and development programmes of companies, Ahmed Reda Chami,Morocco’s minister of industry, commerce and new technologies, told the Second Conference on Innovation in Skhirat, Morocco, last month (March).
Education minister Ahmed Akhchichine said that three innovation cities will be built this year in Fez, Marrakech and Rabat. A fourth centre will be added in Casablanca next year.The goal of the Moroccan Centre for Innovation, Akhchichine said, will be to track down potential inventors at the country’s universities and provide them with support to implement their innovations.
Akhchichine said that Morocco “already has much potential and many abilities” and, with the measures the government is taking, he is optimistic about the sustainable future of innovation in the country.
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