We must achieve the share of innovative products in GDP up to 2.5% - A.Issekeshev

At a meeting on the development of an innovation cluster in Almaty, held with the participation of President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakh Minister of Investment and Development Asset Issekeshev spoke about plans for the second five-year plan.

"If in 2009-2010 we had only a few dozen projects, now, only through the Ministry of Investment and Development and the National Agency for Technological Development, more than five hundred projects have been supported. A large number of projects have been supported by the Ministry of Education and Science and Nazarbayev University. Thus, a new "young growth" of the innovative economy is gradually being created. Therefore, we plan to step up this work in the second five-year period. Our goal is to achieve an increase in innovation activity to 20%, and the share of innovative products in GDP to 2.5%," the minister said.

He stressed that within the framework of the second five-year plan, the main focus will be on the manufacturing industry. There are two priorities in innovation policy. The first is to reduce the technological gap in traditional industries (metallurgy, geology, agriculture, and others). The second is to create the foundations for the development of new branches of the knowledge economy, such as robotics, automation, engineering, multimedia technologies, etc.

In January 2013, Nikolai Khramov patented his method of obtaining break-even energy at the Eurasian Patent Office. A number of enterprises in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have announced their readiness to build small thermal power plants using the Khramov method.

Source: www.inform.kz