Midhat Shagiakhmetov made a report at the panel session "Innovations in the post-pandemic era" in Uzbekistan
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan – Minister of Economy Midhat Shagiakhmetov made a report at the panel session "Innovations in the post-pandemic era" of the International Week of Innovative Ideas "Inno Week.uz-2021" in Uzbekistan.
From November 23 to 27, Tashkent hosts the international week of innovative ideas "InnoWeek.uz-2021" under the motto "Innovations in the post-pandemic era: green technologies, artificial intelligence, technological revolution, startup ecosystem". This is an annual event demonstrating the potential and accumulated results of work in the field of high technologies, innovative and investment projects in the field of science. The delegation from the Republic of Tatarstan was headed by Midhat Shagiakhmetov.
The Minister of Economy of the region took part in the opening ceremony of the international event and got acquainted with the exhibition, where advanced innovative technologies, products and prototypes of developments for various spheres and business models were demonstrated.
Midhat Shagiakhmetov also made a report on the tools of adaptability and support for business and production in Tatarstan during the pandemic at the panel session "Innovations in the post-pandemic era".
In the report, the Minister noted that in 2020, enterprises of the Republic of Tatarstan showed high adaptability to work in new conditions. This was facilitated by anti-crisis federal and republican support measures, special programs for the development of enterprises and the transition to remote operation.
Innovative infrastructure has also been created in the republic - special economic zones "Alabuga" and "Innopolis", the largest technopolis in Europe "Khimgrad" and technoparks "Idea" and "IT Park". Residents of these sites generate innovations every year, they have created thousands of high-tech jobs.
"Serious reserves for the growth of our economy are laid down in the intellectual component. In the rating of regions of Russia in terms of the number of applications submitted for inventions, Tatarstan is consistently among the top five and ranks 1st among the subjects of the Volga Federal District," the minister said.
It was possible to maintain favorable conditions for increasing innovation activity in the Republic of Tatarstan, thanks to the availability of modern innovation infrastructure, the provision of active state support and the development of the intellectual property market.
So, despite all the difficulties of 2020, the region managed to keep the volume of shipped innovative products almost at the same level. In 2020, it amounted to 528.8 billion rubles, the share of shipped innovative products and the share of organizations implementing technological innovations increased.
"These data indicate that our enterprises, overcoming economic difficulties and restrictions associated with the pandemic, continue to increase innovation activity, and are developing in the field of product and technological innovations. The introduction of innovations is increasingly seen by companies as the only way to increase the competitiveness of manufactured goods, maintain high rates of development and profitability," concluded Midhat Shagiakhmetov.
At the end of the report, the Minister of Economy stressed the need to work together to effectively counter unstable phenomena in the global economy, and also noted the importance of holding such events, within which it is possible to exchange accumulated experience in the development of innovation activities between countries.