A regular meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone was held today by President Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. The event took place in the House of Tatarstan Government.
As Rustam Minnikhanov noted, this is the second meeting of the Supervisory Board this year. He said that today Innopolis has created 3,900 jobs, 107 residents and 26 partner companies are operating, and 76 start-ups are being implemented. According to him, new projects to create innovation infrastructure are also being implemented at the site of Innopolis SEZ and there are plans for further housing construction.
At the meeting, projects of 11 companies were approved with a total investment of over RUB 3 billion. Residents and partners will create over 400 highly skilled jobs.
Tatarstan’s Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaikhutdinov said that the Innopolis Special Economic Zone has been showing stable growth in terms of key indicators year after year. At year-end 2020, the revenue of residents and partners cumulatively totalled RUB 23.1 billion, which is 53 per cent more than in 2019, investments were RUB 28.7 billion (up 65 per cent), and tax payments totalled RUB 4 billion (up 67 per cent). It is important that Innopolis has started diversification by sectors and is actively developing not only the IT sector, but also medicine and manufacturing industry. This will give an impetus for a new round of Innopolis SEZ development.