President attends opening of <i>Science and innovations</i> exhibition

ALMATY. January 6. KAZINFORM /Dauren Zhailin/ Kazakhstan?s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has visited Information Technologies Park ?Alatau IT City? and exhibition ?Science and innovations? in Almaty; Kazinform reports.

The exhibition is dedicated to development of the innovation system and interaction between participants of the process of innovative development in Kazakhstan. 50 exhibitors ? universities and industrial parks, state structures, venture funds, which finance research and development activities, companies, which implement innovations to production ? from six regions of the country took part in it. Over 120 scientific elaborations and innovative projects were introduced. Organizer is ?National Innovation Fund? JSC, which enters the structure of the National Welfare Fund ?SamrukKazyna?. The exhibition showed the innovative potential of enterprises and organizations of the country. As is known, Kazakhstan approved a program on formation and development of the national innovation system in 2005. There were formed four elements of the innovation system in the country: science, innovation infrastructure, infrastructure for innovations financing and companies, which implement innovations to production. It is important to note that Kazakhstan builds the innovation system of the open type. It means a transfer of technologies and public private partnership.