EghtesadOnline: Banks and credit institutions lent 137.6 trillion rials ($860 million) to 1,108 knowledge-based companies in the last fiscal year that ended on March 19.

EghtesadOnline: Iranian knowledge-based companies and tech firms have stepped forward to produce health protective items needed to combat the novel coronavirus rapidly spreading in the country.

EghtesadOnline: Iran has great potential for leading the water sector entrepreneurship in the region, co-director of Cewas, a Swiss non-profit association involved in improving business practices in water and sanitation, said.