“The primary aim of the agency is to support those who have already achieved something, especially medium-sized businesses.” Vladimir Putin At a video conference to present the Strategic Initiatives Agency
Transcript of the conference:
Vladimir Putin:
Good afternoon, friends and colleagues,
Today, we are officially starting a new project entitled “the Strategic Initiatives Agency under the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation”. Let me remind you that we proposed creating it in Volgograd, and I think the proposal was overall well received...
“The primary aim of the agency is to support those who have already achieved something, especially medium-sized businesses.”
Vladimir Putin At a video conference to present the Strategic Initiatives Agency
Transcript of the conference:
Vladimir Putin:
Good afternoon, friends and colleagues,
Today, we are officially starting a new project entitled “the Strategic Initiatives Agency under the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation”. Let me remind you that we proposed creating it in Volgograd, and I think the proposal was overall well received. I also want to remind you that the primary aim of the agency is to support those who have already achieved something, especially medium-sized businesses.
First of all, we are specifically talking about the field of innovation activity. However, we believe that innovation principles can be applied in all the fields that I will list in a moment. I’d like to reiterate that we are going to support those working in medium-sized companies, even though the boundaries and criteria are very vague there. In our country, there are special structures that work with small businesses and special structures that work with large businesses, but we pay too little attention to medium-sized business to a certain extent.
Which fields do we mean? There are three fields. The first one is called “new business”, and it involves the development of significant, interesting and promising projects. In this field, people will work proceeding from their own experience, and we will support them according to the expected results of their work.
I believe that, in this segment, we can support people who have achieved certain results. In order to move forward, they need support and administrative or, sometimes, financial assistance, and the agency might serve as a mediator between business representatives and financial organisations, our country’s leading banks and development institutions. It might support projects that are already underway and people who have proved that they are able to do something, as they have already implemented some projects, and propose new areas of activity. And I think it may well be so that people will appear who haven’t done anything special but have absolutely new, fresh, breakthrough ideas. The point is, if the expert council reviews these ideas favourably, it will be necessary to take a closer look at these proposals.
As part of work in this “new business” field, it will be important to have the opinions and experience of those who have already contributed to removing administrative barriers, to expanding relations with government and administrative bodies, and promoting new ideas to the municipal, regional or federal levels. Certainly, it will be very important to hear and devise approaches that will create more transparent relations between business (at least in the given segment) and the state in the broad sense of the word.
Then, there’s the second field, which we called “young professionals” for the purposes of discussion. Here, we are talking, first and foremost, about the development of a complex system of professional skills which would take into account the current realities and allow for the development of education standards, professional training and the selection of the best programmes in this field. We will get young experts involved in the work: lawyers, economists and engineers as well as public service and social workers.
Finally, the third field is “social projects”. These are the initiatives aimed at the development of social services. It is necessary to promote well-established projects that have social significance.
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источник новости: http://premier.gov.ru/eng/events/news/15348/
