Egypt Technology Transfer and Innovation Centers (ETTIC) is a chain of specified technology centers that work as multi-functional service provider centers established by the Ministry of Trade and Industry and affiliated to the Technology Development Sector. The main target of ETTIC is to reinforce knowledge, experience, capacity, know-how, and technology transfer between those who have them and those who need them. ETTIC works on a mechanism to transfer technology from its foreign and local resources to all industrial sectors in Egypt according to the requirements of industry and export sectors.
The following Technology Centers have been established to provide their services vertically to various industrial sectors:
- Fashion and Design Center
- Marble and Quarries Technology Center
- Plastic Technology Center
- Food Technology Center
- Leather Technology Center
- Leather Tanning Technology Center
- Furniture Technology Center
- Jewellery Technology Center
- Textile and Clothing Business Center
- Engineering Industries Technology Center
While the following Specific Centers provide services horizontally to all industrial sectors:
- Productivity and Quality Improvement Center
- Egypt National Cleaner Production Center
- Packaging Center
Main Services provided by ETTIC
- Quality and Quality Management
e.g. Testing and Certification, Quality Audit
- Advanced Human Resources Development
e.g. Advanced Training, Designers
- Technical Assistance
e.g. Information, Product Design, Production Optimization, Supply Chain Management, Benchmarking
- Technology Transfer
Patents, New Technologies, New materials, License
- Environment and Social Management
Compliance Assistance, Eco efficiency, Recycling, Waste Management
- R&D and Innovation
Contracted R&D, Innovation
Strategy and Approach
ETTIC strategy is based on three main axes:
First: Set up a demand-based model to fulfill the technological requirements of the industrial sector
Second: Effective diffusion within the global technology and knowledge based society and establish twinning agreements with high-level international partners to provide resources of technology
Third: Provide technological services with high level and competitive value and work on achieving sustainability and financial dependence for the technology centers
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