The meeting of the fundraising committee was held at the session hall of the Iranian Fisheries Science and Research Institute with the presence of the director, deputies and managers of the headquarters and the affiliated research institutes and research centers, the deputy director of technology affairs of the Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization and the head of the group of growth centers and knowledge based companies of this office.During the meeting, Dr. Alipour, the deputy director of the office of technology affairs of the Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization, explained about the growth and innovation centers, the requirements for establishing technology companies, how to select technology companies and how to deploy them in the growth centers as well as the facilities available to these companies to support innovators.Dr. Bahmani pointed to the differences between fisheries research and other agricultural research. He emphasized the need to support innovation in the fisheries industry.At the end of the meeting, the report on the income generation of the South of Iran Aquaculture Research Center, the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea Ecological Research Institute, the Shrimp Research Institute of Iran, the Inland Waters Aquatic Stocks Research Center and the Caspian Sea Ecology Research Center was reviewed.