Rab'e Rashidi Innovation and Technology Exhibition is an annual event held in Tabriz to enhance the knowledge-based business environment with the aim of developing and commercializing the technology. In previous years, this exhibition and festival was being held under the title of The Rab'e Rashidi Exhibition and Festival of Innovative and Advanced Technologies. Since 2017, adopting the title of Rab'e Rashidi Innovation and Technology Exhibition, abbreviated as RINOTEX, it has continued its activities. The first period of the exhibition was held in 2005, then it was resumed in 2014 and continued annually. RINOTEX hold every year at Tabriz International Exhibition Center hosting visitors and participants from all over the world. In 2022, after ten periods of organizing the RINOTEX, the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, in an official letter to the governorate of East Azerbaijan agreed with the registration of RINOTEX in the Ministry's Exhibition Calendar. The 11th Rab'e Rashidi Exhibition of Innovation and Technology will also be held on 8-11 Nov. 2023.
The Objectives of RINOTEX 2023
Creating a suitable platform for networking between technologists and players in the country’s innovation and technology ecosystem
Helping to commercialize the technology
Identifying and supporting the country's top technologies and helping to brand them
Identifying the technological needs of the country's industries and trying to improve their technology
Rinotex provides an opportunity to accelerate the path of turning ideas into innovative and technological services or products. By synergizing and networking between the players of innovation and technology ecosystem, Rinotex strives to increase indicators such as: the rate of social acceptance of technology - research and development credits - technological services and products, knowledge enterprise, and knowledge-based economy.
Establishment and activity regulations of science and technology corridors in five provinces of the country were approved in 2005. Also, activity permit of Tabriz Rab'e Rashidi special science and technology Region was issued in 2014. Special Science and Technology Regions are a collection of hardware and software infrastructures and facilities that synergize the potentials of organizations, centers , institutions and lead to promote technology and, as a result, production, wealth, national welfare and knowledge-based society.