Deputy Director General of “Rosnanotekh” Andrey Svinarenko: “it is necessary to stimulate demand for nanoindustry output”

In November, the project of complex program of nanoindustry development in Tatarstan for 2009-2013 is planned to be submitted for consideration and approval by Tatarstan government. RT First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Pavlov informed at the joint session of Republican interdepartmental commission on interaction with federal state power bodies of Russian Federation on realization of projects and programs of Republic Tatarstan and Interdepartmental working group on financing nanoindustrial projects of Tatarstan.

The session was devoted to discussing issues of development of complex program of nanoindustry in Tatarstan for 2009-2013. Deputy Director General of “Rosnanotekh” Andrey Svinarenko took part in the event.

By words of Boris Pavlov, currently 138 projects in the sphere of nanoindustry have been developed in republic. Sum of their realization will make 95 bln. roubles. About 50 % of all nanoprojects in Tatarstan are presented by leading scientific and educational centres of republic.

Boris Pavlov considers that the main tasks are working on quality of projects, searching for potential customers interested in its development and implementation.

Projects will be financed by enterprises themselves and budget of Russian Federation.

Andrey Svinarenko noted that we have to fight with passivity of some chiefs who do not see any perspectives of implementation of nanotechnologies and are not interested in changing the technology of existed production. In addition it is necessary to stimulate the demand for nanoindustry output.