MINSK, 19 August (BelTA) – As many as 45 international research centers operate on the basis of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) today. The figure was mentioned by Chief Academic Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Andrei Ivanets at the press conference held on 19 August to discuss Belarusian science and the national innovation system, BelTA has learned.
According to the source, 45 international research centers from Russia, China, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Italy and other countries operate on the basis of organizations of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
New international research centers and labs are being created in the China-Belarus industrial park Great Stone. For instance, the joint R&D enterprise ZAO Aero Technology and System (ATS) was established in 2018. It is the industrial park's 33rd resident company, which now successfully operates and designs unmanned aerial vehicles. OOO China-Belarus Innovation Center for Industrial Technologies was established in 2020 on the basis of a framework agreement between the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Academy of Sciences of China's Guangdong Province. It is the industrial park's 65th resident company. Andrei Ivanets said: “We are now creating a China-Belarus international innovation center together with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.”
The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus works with partners from over 100 countries. “We fulfill direct international contracts with our colleagues from more than 60 countries. A total of over 200 agreements on cooperation with scientific centers and research and production centers are in effect,” the official added.
The main directions of export of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus include sales of high-tech goods, including equipment, the fulfillment of R&D contract work in such fields as machine building and instrument building, powder metallurgy, metalworking, laser physics, biotechnologies, new materials, chemical technologies, and information and communication technologies.
Andrei Ivanets said: “At present all the scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus are intent on creating new technologies, commercializing them, and on participating in the implementation of all the plans designed to guide Belarus' social and economic development in 2021-2025.”
