Kazakh Deputy PM urges local executive bodies to strengthen cooperation with universities

15:00, 19 April 2013

ASTANA. April 19. KAZINFORM Local executive bodies should strengthen cooperation with universities for the development of regional innovation systems, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Industry and New Technologies Asset Issekeshev stated during the seminar on the formation of regional innovation systems, the Kazakh PM's website reported.

The head of the Ministry said that "in the framework of the regional innovation systems development it is planned to start the project on industrial and innovative clusters, it is needed to work on its specialization in each region. Thus, it is necessary to determine the concentration of some of the most successful clusters at the second stage of the state program of forced industrial innovative development."

As reported earlier, at the enlarged session of the Government of Kazakhstan on January 23, 2013 President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed all regional governors and mayors of Astana and Almaty to develop a plan on establishment of regional innovation systems and to begin its implementation.

Regional Innovation System (RIS) is a set of elements of industrial-innovative infrastructure and scientific organizations in the region engaged in the generation and distribution of innovation.

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