YEREVAN, AUGUST 16, NOYAN TAPAN. In order to encourage the inflow of investments to Armenia's high-tech sector and promote the introduction of new technologies, it is necessary to grant status of a special economic zone to technoparks and to develop legislation on technoparks, incubators and special economic zones, the director general of Viasphere Technopark Aram Vardanian expressed an opinion during a talk with NT correspondent. "The matter concerns not only tax and customs privileges of the indicated structures but also problems related to regulation of their activities," A. Vardanian said. He added that Viasphere Technopark is currently operating in the legislative field of commercial organizations - in the status of a closed joint stock company, which makes it necessary to build relations between the technopark and the companies working in the technopark on a commercial basis. The technopark provides services (including municipal ones), technical assistance and advice to these enterprises, while provision of all this based on commercial principles is inexpedient.

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