On Monday, April 3, 2023,The minister of higher education and scientific research Mr. Kamel Baddari was accompanied by the minister of knowledge economy, startups and micro-entrerprises, Mr. Yacine El-Mehdi Oualid, for an inspection visit to the industrial technology centre, and to the centre for scientific and technical research of physicochemical analysis in Bousmail at the wilaya of Tipaza
Both ministers attended the inauguration of a business incubator at the industrial technology centre, as they oversaw a number of scientific research laboratories at the centre for scientific and technical research of physicochemical analysis. The delegation then inspected a group of startups recently created in materials science, technology and nutrition sciences.
On the same occasion, the ministerial delegation gave the official launch signal for a sub-constitution related to marketing chemical materials for the sector of higher education and scientific research.
In a press statement, Mr. Baddari affirmed that the sector is seeking to value the results of scientific research in a tangible and functional way, and make innovation an incentive for industrial revamping, citing the three models of drones which had been developed at the industrial technology centre of Bousmail.
Mr. Baddari stated that Algerian potential has control over industrial technologies by up to 60 percent, as it has possibility to create optimized final models for products that can be marketable and exported abroad.
The development of three models of drones had been developed by a research group at the industrial technology research centre, under the cooperation convention with the general directorate of civil protection, the general directorate of forestry and the ministry of agriculture, while patents in this regard are currently being developed in recognition of the research results.
In the same context, preliminary experiments had been carried out successfully on three models of drones which are, fixed wings drones, vertical drones and hybrid drones; while development of a fourth drone model is currently carried out, related to industrial facilities control, according to explanations presented to the ministerial delegation.
Mr. Yacine El-Mahdi Oualid, for his part, stressed the strategic importance of airborne systems, including drone industry technologies. Calling for the need to work on valuating the results of scientific research and take them from manufacturing laboratories to industrialization. The minister added that there is a high control over drone industry technology which must be taken into consideration, noting that researchers in the industrial sector have the possibility to launch startups, such as business incubators.