2008: seven new Russian techno parks to be launched
The first objects will start operating in Russian pilot techno parks in 2008, Leonid Reiman, RF Minister of Communications tells.
Dec 12, 2007
He says the infrastructure of the objects constructed is being actively developed and the first investment agreements are being signed. In 2011 the given techno parks are planned to release products for about 117 bln. rubles.
Leonid Reiman, the RF Minister of IT and Communications, speaking at the Global Investment Financial Forum in Moscow tells the first objects of the Russian pilot techno parks will start operating next year, i.e. 2008. The key mechanism of state support is currently revealed in co-funding the development of engineering, transport and other infrastructures of the objects under construction. Currently the given works are well under way. Simultaneously, investment agreements with large companies and investors are signed.
It should be noted, that President Vladimir Putin claimed the program to construct, develop and support techno parks to start in January 2005. The president stated then, that Russia had the qualified personnel and scientific developments necessary to develop high-tech. Besides, Mr. Putin highlighted, that the project to develop techno parks was of significant social importance, as new, prestigious and highly paid positions mainly for the young would be established.
Initially, techno parks were to be established on the basis of large scientific and educational centers in four regions. Finally, the state program adopted in March 2006 foresees techno parks to be constructed in seven regions, i.e. Moscow, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaluga, and Tumen Regions, Republic of Tatarstan and St. Petersburg. In several months after that, the RF Government adopted a range of measure to establish techno parts in Russia. After that the development of business-plans, property execution and preparation of design documentation was launched. In 2007 techno parks construction has started.
The Ministry of Communications tells CNews, 2 bln. rubles ($ 81.7 mln.) have been invested from the federal budget into techno parks construction in 2007. A similar sum has been allocated from the regional budgets, where the pilot projects are developed. According to the Ministry of Communications, the techno park ‘Idea’ (Tatarstan) might be considered actually operating. On the base of the given project a larger techno part is being constructed.
Leonid Reiman has called the pilot techno parks ‘test areas for knowledge economy’. Each of them has a certain profile related to the regional specificity, practically all dramatically important technologies have been revealed in their specialization. Techno parks residential companies will be engaged in such spheres as biotechnologies, pharmaceutics, IT, service development for the oil and gas production.
The first techno parks were established in Russia in 1990 in Tomsk and Zelenograd. As for 2006, 92% of 54 centers entering the Association ‘Technopark’ were established on the basis of universities or at the universities, 4% related to sectorial scientific and research institutes and enterprises, relatively. Most of university techno parks do not occupy much square. The largest center is Zelenograd scientific and technological park MIET (56 thousand square meters). Then follows Lomonosov Moscow State University techno park (11.7 thousand square meters). For comparison, the aggregate square of Novosibirsk techno park, which is currently under construction, is about 150 thousand square meters. Only in 12 out of 22 techno parks studied by the Association the number of personnel exceeded 200. The annual output of the mentioned 22 techno parks amounted to 5.2 bln. rubles ($ 212.6 mln.) in 2005, more than half produced by Zelenograd and MSU techno parks. The Ministry of Communications plans that in 2011 the output of seven pilot techno parks will amount to 117 bln. rubles ($4,784.959 mln.), while the overall number of those working for the given techno parks might exceed 75 thousand.
Leonid Reiman, the RF Minister of IT and Communications, speaking at the Global Investment Financial Forum in Moscow tells the first objects of the Russian pilot techno parks will start operating next year, i.e. 2008. The key mechanism of state support is currently revealed in co-funding the development of engineering, transport and other infrastructures of the objects under construction. Currently the given works are well under way. Simultaneously, investment agreements with large companies and investors are signed.
It should be noted, that President Vladimir Putin claimed the program to construct, develop and support techno parks to start in January 2005. The president stated then, that Russia had the qualified personnel and scientific developments necessary to develop high-tech. Besides, Mr. Putin highlighted, that the project to develop techno parks was of significant social importance, as new, prestigious and highly paid positions mainly for the young would be established.
Initially, techno parks were to be established on the basis of large scientific and educational centers in four regions. Finally, the state program adopted in March 2006 foresees techno parks to be constructed in seven regions, i.e. Moscow, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaluga, and Tumen Regions, Republic of Tatarstan and St. Petersburg. In several months after that, the RF Government adopted a range of measure to establish techno parts in Russia. After that the development of business-plans, property execution and preparation of design documentation was launched. In 2007 techno parks construction has started.
The Ministry of Communications tells CNews, 2 bln. rubles ($ 81.7 mln.) have been invested from the federal budget into techno parks construction in 2007. A similar sum has been allocated from the regional budgets, where the pilot projects are developed. According to the Ministry of Communications, the techno park ‘Idea’ (Tatarstan) might be considered actually operating. On the base of the given project a larger techno part is being constructed.
Leonid Reiman has called the pilot techno parks ‘test areas for knowledge economy’. Each of them has a certain profile related to the regional specificity, practically all dramatically important technologies have been revealed in their specialization. Techno parks residential companies will be engaged in such spheres as biotechnologies, pharmaceutics, IT, service development for the oil and gas production.
The first techno parks were established in Russia in 1990 in Tomsk and Zelenograd. As for 2006, 92% of 54 centers entering the Association ‘Technopark’ were established on the basis of universities or at the universities, 4% related to sectorial scientific and research institutes and enterprises, relatively. Most of university techno parks do not occupy much square. The largest center is Zelenograd scientific and technological park MIET (56 thousand square meters). Then follows Lomonosov Moscow State University techno park (11.7 thousand square meters). For comparison, the aggregate square of Novosibirsk techno park, which is currently under construction, is about 150 thousand square meters. Only in 12 out of 22 techno parks studied by the Association the number of personnel exceeded 200. The annual output of the mentioned 22 techno parks amounted to 5.2 bln. rubles ($ 212.6 mln.) in 2005, more than half produced by Zelenograd and MSU techno parks. The Ministry of Communications plans that in 2011 the output of seven pilot techno parks will amount to 117 bln. rubles ($4,784.959 mln.), while the overall number of those working for the given techno parks might exceed 75 thousand.