SEZ Dubna interested in Tatarstan IT projects

Deputy Prime Minister of Tatarstan, Minister of informatization and communications Roman Shaikhutdinov and Director General of SEZ of technical innovation type “Dubna” Maksim Prachik have discussed issues of creation and development of technoparks and special zones of technical innovation type in Russia. The meeting took place in the Kazan IT-park.

Chief of the Department for interaction with residents of SEZ Dubna Aleksei Stepanenko, and Deputy Director of the RT Center of information technologies, chief of Innopolis project Anton Grachev took part in the meeting.

The first technopark under the federal program “Creation of high technology technoparks in Russia” appeared in Kazan in 2009. Today it is completely occupied by residents. Total annual receipt of residents has made 3 mln roubles. On August 25 the second IT-park will be officially opened in Naberezhnye Chelny under this program. Moreover, construction of IT city “Innopolis” for 150 000 people is planned.

Roman Shaikhutdinov informed that the Tatarstan Ministry of informatization and communication is preparing a request for RF Ministry of economic development for assigning the status of SEZ of technical innovation type to Innopolis, and Dubna practice can be useful for Tatarstan.