- Published: 29 December 2017 /
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For Kazakhstan development of scientific potential is an important factor in maintaining the pace of economic growth, so increasing attention is paid to training talented youth, interacting with leading scientific centers of the world and transferring technology to Kazakhstani production. Practice shows that not all ready-made solutions can work with maximum efficiency in our country - many technologies need to be adapted to Kazakhstani conditions.
To solve all these problems, with the participation of the World Bank, the Fostering Productive Innovation Project was developed aimed at promoting relevant and nationally significant research and commercializing technologies. The Project has many objectives: training of Kazakhstani scientists, awarding grants for creation of a branch of high-tech industries and attracting investors to domestic science.
In Kazakhstan there are scientists, inventors who understand how to rationalize the production cycle, increase the efficiency of resources, create a useful and popular product.
But, we, Kazakhstanis, do not know about them.
We also have obsolete production facilities with rather low productivity, an excellent raw material base and a priority for investment projects.
Unfortunately, you can not just bring the technology and wait that it will work absolutely similar to the results that showed in other countries, with other conditions. Efficiency will be lower with a high level of expectations, so we need our people that are able to calculate the "correction for wind."
To find such people and their inventions, to be a mediator between business and science, to adapt the desired technologies is the task of one of the directions of the Fostering Productive Innovation Project, which is called the Innovation Observatory.
What is the difference between an Innovation Observatory and other programs? The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan has developed specific strategies and implemented reforms based on international best practice.
In addition, innovation and economic development are the main components of medium- and long-term programs. But in some issues there is a duplication of tasks for different state bodies.
Identification of such factors, the strengthening of the relationship between science and business, the maximum simplification of bureaucratic procedures for the commercialization of technologies, and will be engaged in the Innovation Observatory.
The plans are to collect and provide information on available funding programs and support participation in scientific research centers and universities in the country.
As a result of the study of international innovation practices in countries such as Australia, Chile, China, Norway, the Russian Federation and the European Union, many solutions have been found that are suitable for Kazakhstan in transforming the scientific and technological potential.
If the recommendations on systemic changes are supported by the Ministry of Education and Science, the Innovation Observatory will become the leading scientific and practical platform of Kazakhstan and will provide the necessary energy for development of individual industries and sectors in general.