ARMENIA, ST. PETERSBURG TO DEEPEN COOPERATION IN INNOVATION PROJECTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.12.2009 13:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian-Russian business forum kicked off in
Yerevan on December 8.

"I wanted to bring our cooperation to a new level – scientific,
technical and actively cooperate in the field of innovation," Natalya
Lukicheva deputy head of St. Petersburg administration committee on
external affairs.

She informed, that St. Petersburg adopted a program to support small
and medium-sized businesses, the city will be creating free economic
zones in Russia. "Now the policy of establishing technoparks and
clusters is forming, when smaller companies are grouped around one
major business," she added.

Natalya Lukicheva also told about interest on the part of a newly
forming technopark to find partners in Armenia among the Association
of Armenian women involved in garment industry.

Large industrial parks will also be created in medical equipment,
pharmaceutical, information technology industries, which have broad
potential for cooperation.

Natalya Lukicheva invited representatives of Armenia to participate
in the innovation week in Saint Petersburg next year and promised
favorable conditions for the exhibition displays. The Russian
delegation is represented by Union of Garment Workers, Pharmacists,
scientific and technical workers, etc.