On Thursday, October 10, 2024, in Tipaza, the minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Mr. Kamel Baddari, affirmed that the transfer of technologies of the research centres to economic companies is “a crucial national bet”, which requires the mobilization of all stakeholders.
Algeria “has taken up the challenge of transferring industrial technology from research centres to economic enterprises by permitting research centres to create economic, industrial and commercial subsidiaries,” said the minister at the end of the working visit at the public economic establishment “the Welding, control, industrial expertise, consulting and development company,” a subsidiary of the Bou Ismail Industrial Technologies Research Centre.
He stressed that the strengthening of research centres within these subsidiaries will increase the efficiency of science, knowledge and the entrepreneurial and economic role of academic and research institutions.
Public economic companies affiliated with research centres under the supervision of the higher education sector “will allow the valorisation and promotion of the results of technological research through economically efficient industrial products, which will also strengthen the completion of the national economic market,” the minister stated.
In this regard, he stressed that “the Welding, control, industrial expertise, consulting and Development Company” has striven to apply a number of scientific research results carried out by the Industrial Technologies Research Centre, particularly through industrial products and other services related to training, consulting and monitoring.
The minister added that this same company plans to expand its activities by 2026, by setting up a program to strengthen its human resources to employ 1000 workers in various fields.
The director of the same company, Mr. Lamine Hadj Djilali, stressed in turn that the missions of this public enterprise are to ensure the optimal exploitation of the research results, to contribute the wealth creation, and to provide technical assistance to industrial companies in the field of training, expertise and consult.