Yerevan will host Science and Business Days 2023 with Nassim Taleb

YEREVAN, August 2. /ARKA/. On December 1-2 this year Armenian capital city Yerevan will host Science and Business Days 2023,  the Ministry of Economy announced on Tuesday during a video news conference with world-renowned scientist Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Taleb, a writer and philosopher, the author of the bestsellers "Black Swan" and "Antifragility," will be the key speaker at f the event.

The goal of the Science and Business Days is to promote  interaction between businesses and science, identify opportunities for commercialization of science, as well as their continuous cooperation for the benefit of the Armenian economy.

Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan told reporters that the event will become a platform that will unite the worlds of science and business, stimulating innovation, cooperation and progress.

"There are over 4,000 scientists and researchers working in Armenia. And our goal should be to bring the results of their work into our everyday life, to use them  in the production of goods and services, to make it available to the society. We should make science more attractive for young people,' Kerobyan said.

Kerobyan outlined a number of reasons for the importance of the event: stimulating innovation, providing a platform for cooperation between scientists and businessmen, presentation of their advanced research and discoveries, stimulating the development of new ideas and technologies, exchange of knowledge and experience between scientific and business communities, attracting investments, international fame, presentation of innovations.

For his part, Taleb described it as a great honor and joy to take part in the event. "For me (the visit to Armenia) is similar to coming home, because the South Caucasus is very important to me. In this respect, it is a great honor for me," he said.