Kama agglomeration – the point of growth of the Russian economy

The second day of the "Russia and the World: Looking to the Future” Gaidar Forum has ended with the "Strategy for the creation of a territorial separate innovation and production center InnoKam" plenary discussion. The event was attended by President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, Tatarstan Investment Development Agency Chief Executive Taliya Minullina and other members of the government of the republic, JSC "Tatneftekhiminvest Holding" CEO Rafinat Yarullin, Chairman of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Republic of Tatarstan Shamil Ageev. Also participated the Chairman of the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexey Kudrin, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, CEO of the Federal Fund for Housing Development Alexander Braverman, other officials and guests. They discussed prospects for the implementation of socio-economic policy of Tatarstan in terms of Strategy 2030 - namely, the development of the Kama agglomeration as "points of growth" of the domestic economy. Also, on the example of the Kama agglomeration considered strategy of development of transport infrastructure in Russia as a whole. In the next ten years, the main point of economic growth in the Republic of Tatarstan is determined Kama innovative regional production cluster. Sectoral specialization of the cluster - oil and gas processing and petrochemicals, automotive. It is one of 25 regional innovative clusters, development programs of which was supported at the federal level. Kama cluster today - is a modern petrochemical, refineries in Nizhnekamsk, automotive and Car Components production in Naberezhnye Chelny, which are known in the domestic and world markets, as well as scientific and educational complex, represented by two national research and one federal universities, industry and research centers. " InnoKam development undoubtedly will lead to attraction of more foreign direct investment and integration of agglomeration’s enterprises in the world market of high-tech products. The SEZ "Alabuga" and many other powerful and serious players are located in this territory - that is, the prospects are good, but the effort will have to take a lot, because the plans are very ambitious. It is expected that the implementation of investment projects will allow Kama cluster in 2020 to create more than 30 thousand high production jobs, to increase the amount of shipped products in 3 times (up to 2 trillion rubles), the amount established in the Kama cluster gross added value - 3 times (up to 1.1 trillion rubles)," says Taliya Minullina. For reference. Key members of the Kama cluster are: OJSC "KAMAZ", PJSC "Nizhnekamskneftekhim", JSC "TANECO", JSC "Tatneftekhiminvest Holding", JSC "SEZ "Alabuga", the petrochemical complex of JSC "Tatneft", "Kazan National Research Technological University", JSC "Ammonium", JSC "TAIF-NK", JSC "Chemical Plant of. L. Karpov" and others. Competitive advantages of the cluster is defined by favorable economic and geographical position, lined up cooperation links and a high degree of localization of the participants (all major companies are located within a radius of 30 km). High investment attractiveness of the Cluster confirms the fact that there have located its business such world famous companies as "Daimler", "Ford", "Rockwool", "Cummins", "Tsanrad factory", "Case New Holland", "Air Liquide", "Schneider Electric", "Mitsubishi Fuso Truck & Bus".