Kazakhstan’s innovation development which is a basis for global competitiveness of the country has become a main theme of the session.
Prior to session, the President observed an innovation exhibition.
In his welcome speech, President Nazarbayev thanked all members and observes for their active participation in the session, as well as for their recommendations given to increase its efficiency.
President Nazarbayev stressed that Kazakhstan has developed Kazakhstan Innovative Development Concept till 2020 which was designed with participation of known world experts.
“The Concept provides that through flagman project implementation jointly with the investors we will move towards private innovation initiatives development. The Concept of transfer to “green economy” established a new stage to our state development. International specialized exhibition EXPO-2017 in Astana will become one of the catalysts of its implementation,” the President said.
The head of state stressed that to implement such important strategic documents it is necessary to take several systemic measures.
“The first is to fine tune our education system to enable it to provide the process of innovations implementation with qualified specialists. Many of the investors present here have already faced the problems associated with the lack of required specialists. We need to cover the needs in engineering and technical specialists possessing appropriate competencies of international level. It should be done jointly with the business,” the President added.
The second aspect is Kazakh scientific potential application.
“Universities play the key role in the area of science. If in 2010 universities produced 33%of the total number of scientific and technical programs, today 67 percent of the universities’ projects have been approved. That is why we shall continue creation of applied research divisions in the universities. Rushing for applied projects we shall never for
