AMA Company has said that it will use a special unit for forced evacuation.
According to the IDEA, following the end of the lease term of the Azadi Innovation Factory property, all the activists present in this property have only until December 8th to vacate, and AMA has said that if they do not move, this place will be evacuated by the judicial officers using the special unit of the police force.
Referring to the complexities of evacuation of this place, the Hamava company has said that it is not possible to transfer several innovation centers, including a pharmaceutical knowledge center or a television studio with continuous live broadcast, during this one-month deadline.
Statement of Hamava Company regarding the evacuation of “Azadi Innovation Factory”
In 2016, the founders and well-intentioned shareholders of Hamava established the innovation factory as the first and largest innovation center in Iran and the region, and as a result, the innovation factory with an area of over 18 thousand square meters, with the aim of meeting all the needs of entrepreneurs from the establishment stages, From formation and acceleration to attracting capital and entering the initial markets, it was established in one place for all the actors of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
In the construction of this ecosystem, we had benevolent and concerned partners without their support, this great success for our country would not have been achieved. After six years, Azadi Innovation Factory is now one of the largest innovation centers in the country in several strategic areas, including artificial intelligence, health and pharmaceutical industries, communication and information technology, financial and insurance services, tourism industry, architecture and urban planning, smart cars, Modern agriculture, content and media production and other things have become.
During a 5-year contract, the space of Azadi innovation factory was leased by Hamava Innovation Factory from Ama Industrial Company (the owner of the factory property) until the end of March 2022. The board and shareholders of Ama entered into negotiations.
In Isfand 2022, Ama Company announced through the judicial authorities that it is not willing to renew the contract, and despite offering a very reasonable amount to continue the lease, no result was achieved.
In the second half of the year 1401, by the decision of the Honorable Vice President for Science and Technology, Pardis Technology Park assumed the responsibility of negotiating with Ama Company. However, in Isfand 2022, Ama Company announced through the judicial authorities that it was not willing to renew the contract and intends to change the use and sell the property, and despite numerous negotiations and the proposal of a very reasonable amount for the continuation of the lease, no result was obtained from these negotiations.
On November 8, 2023, the esteemed lawyer of Ama Company along with the esteemed representative of the Executive Deputy of Official Documents of the General Directorate of Deeds and Real Estate Registry of Tehran province, without prior notice, appeared at the site to design the Azadi Innovation Factory. As a result of the negotiations, one month was given to completely vacate Azadi Innovation Factory on December 8, 2023. Otherwise, according to him, this place will be evacuated by the judicial officers using the special unit of the police force.
Meanwhile, it is not possible to transfer numerous innovation centers, including the pharmaceutical science center or the television studio with continuous live broadcast, during this one-month deadline. Such an action will also cause many problems in the activities of freelancers, shared workspaces, startups, accelerators, as well as disrupt the operations of daily online services of millions of Iranian citizens, which are provided from the site of Azadi Innovation Factory, which will practically make the evacuation in this short time of one month. will be unenforceable.
Meanwhile, it is not possible to transfer numerous innovation centers, including the pharmaceutical science center or the television studio with continuous live broadcast, during this one-month deadline. Such an action will also cause many problems in the activities of freelancers, shared workspaces, startups, accelerators, as well as disrupt the operations of daily online services of millions of Iranian citizens, which are provided from the site of Azadi Innovation Factory, which will practically make the evacuation in this short time of one month. will be unenforceable.
The forced evacuation of the factory can cause hundreds of billions of tomans of material and moral damage to the economy of companies and cause the dissatisfaction of millions of citizens, which will have negative and widespread consequences in social networks and media.
It is clear that the forced evacuation of the factory can cause hundreds of billions of tomans of material and moral damage to the economy of the companies and cause the dissatisfaction of millions of citizens, which will have negative and widespread consequences in social networks and media.
Hamava company, as a tenant and party to the contract of Ama company, considers the eviction, sale, extension or non-renewal of the contract as the legal right of respected Ama company and is subject to the law. But it is necessary to convey some points to the shareholders and the board of directors of AMA company, the activists of Iran’s startup ecosystem and those involved in this decision. This property was an abandoned and unusable factory at the time of delivery; Sarava venture capital company, together with Hamava company, have spent more than 60 billion Tomans in the years 2017 and 2018 for the reconstruction of the Azadi innovation factory and the formation of the related ecosystem. Also, other companies located in the Innovation Factory have spent a total of 340 billion Tomans to renovate, equip and create its current infrastructure over the past six years.
The complex where the innovation factory is built was the country’s first electrode manufacturing factory called “AMA” decades ago. Ama factory was founded in 1338 by Akbar Alizadeh Rad, but a few decades later, due to the policies of moving industrial units out of Tehran, it became an abandoned factory for several years. Iran’s first innovation factory was reconstructed and launched with the idea of Saeed Rahmani, the founder of Saraava, and the support and capital of the company’s shareholders, with the perseverance and ability of the founders of Hamava and its executive team.
Innovation factory with the participation of “Ama” company, the owner of the factory and its shareholders (especially the honorable Alizadeh family), who have been with benevolence and support for the young entrepreneurs of Iran in this way for the past 6 years, and also the support of the honorable Vice President for Science and Technology, Park Campus technology and factory-based companies started with material investment and spiritual support from all of them.
Every day, four thousand young entrepreneurs use the factory space to develop their startup and knowledge-based business. Azadi Innovation Factory is compared to Station F in Paris.
It should be noted that daily four thousand young entrepreneurs use the factory space to develop their startup and knowledge-based business. Azadi Innovation Factory is one of the most important and largest innovation centers in Iran and the region, which has become an efficient model and national capital for the country and is compared to Station F in Paris. This fact is confirmed by the visit of dozens of delegations and ministers from different countries of the world to this factory. The opening of the Azadi Innovation Factory by the President and the continuous visit of the ministers, deputies of the three forces and other foreign institutions and delegations show the importance of this place in the country’s innovation ecosystem.
All the efforts of the founders and activists of Biobom were to make Azadi Innovation Factory an eternal symbol of entrepreneurship in Iran. But the unfortunate story of the evacuation and destruction of the Azadi innovation factory will become a model for investors and companies not to enter the fields of innovation and knowledge, while the closure of this center in the current conditions of the country will cause a wave of disappointment and disillusionment among young entrepreneurs and elites.
will exist The negative feedback of the media environment of this issue can have harmful consequences for all parties, including Hamava Company, AMA Company, Scientific Vice-Chancellor, Pardis Technology Park and other officials of the country. Most importantly, turning off the light of hope of Iran’s startup and knowledge-based youth house will cause sadness, grief and despair for thousands of young entrepreneurs in the country.
The destruction of Azadi Innovation Factory is the destruction of the dreams of a generation of Iranian youth who have continued the path of entrepreneurship with their heart and soul until today.
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