Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship: key areas of activity

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:40

The Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship (abbreviated as DNPPiP) is located in Moscow at the address: Voznesensky pereulok, 22. The nearest metro stations are Okhotny Ryad and Tverskaya.

The Department is essentially considered to be a sectoral body subordinate to the Government of Moscow, and represents the executive power of the capital. Fursin Alexey Anatolyevich has been the head of the Department since February 2017.

Key tasks of the Department

Considering the activities of the Department on a global scale, we can single out its main function - the preparation, development, and implementation of plans and, in general, the political and economic course that Moscow adheres to. The main front of work is presented in such a field as industry. Increasing the share of the industrial sector and improving the quality of productsimplies not only the development of zones in which the city's industry is concentrated, but also the definition of what exactly they will specialize in.

The Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship, in addition to providing various public services, is also improving the investment climate in order to attract the attention of Russian and foreign investors to new projects and developments. The key tasks of the Department also include the development of scientific activities associated with innovation, new technologies and entrepreneurship, namely its material, consulting support.

Key areas of work

It would be impossible to assess the significance of the Department without defining and concretizing the goals of its work and the activities in which they are manifested. For example, the development of scientific high-tech activities is manifested in the construction of various technology parks and industrial parks involved in the implementation of innovative projects, as well as in the improvement of economic clusters. The Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship of Moscow is also involved in the approval of plans for research and technological work.

The Department is actively supporting small and medium-sized companies and organizations. The formation of a favorable climate for conducting an active and productive business activity is combined with a reduction in administrative barriers and a productivework on optimizing the mechanism for providing public services. All entrepreneurs, beginners and experienced, when applying to the Department can expect to receive various preferences, subsidies and benefits.

Department: innovation and youth

In addition to sponsoring and providing all kinds of support to serious innovative projects, the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship makes it a priority to educate the younger generation in the spirit of a new, high-tech time. To this end, many children's technoparks were formed in Moscow and other cities of Russia, which provide young people not only with high-quality and at the same time free education, but also with the possibility of prestigious employment in the future.

There are more than 10 similar technoparks in Moscow under the patronage of the Department. The most famous of them are Caliber and Baitik. Children's Technopark "Kalibr" provides educational programs in the field of computer animation and 3D modeling for teenage students. The educational course is designed for 36 academic hours, namely, one three-hour lesson per week.

Baytik Children's Technopark is the second of the most famous technoparks in Russia, which is supervised by the Moscow Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. Training in it is longer than in Caliber, and takes either 1 or 3 years (depending on the chosen direction). Every year, education is provided to more than 400 students who are already 14 years old, but not 18. Main areas: programming, robotics, video editing, 3D modeling and some others.

Department and business activities

As already mentioned, the Department provides small and medium-sized businesses with all kinds of financial and material support: it provides subsidies, benefits, preferences. He also deals with the issue of business protection: if the rights of an entrepreneur were somehow violated, then he has the opportunity to contact the Business Protection Headquarters, one of the subordinate organizations of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship. At the headquarters, an entrepreneur can count on qualified legal assistance and protection of their rights and interests.

When contacting the Department, owners of small and medium-sized companies, enterprises can count on the opportunity to use their right to purchase premises and benefits regarding rent: m² will cost only 4, 5 thousand rubles a year. The Department also helps start-up entrepreneurs with basic purchases of materials, raw materials, software, office equipment for a total amount of up to half a million rubles.