OREANDA-NEWS. JSC “Astana Innovations” supported by the akimat of Astana city announces a contest of technological business incubation of industrial innovative projects, which have the opportunity of realization in the capital.

In order to support innovation’s development in Astana city, the capital akimat represented by JSC “Astana Innovations” starts the program of technological business incubation, which provides for a contest of industrial innovative projects. According to the managing director of JSC “Astana Innovations”, approximately 90 projects have taken part in this contest since 2011, 13 of them have been accepted for technological business incubation. Projects relate to different spheres of economics, such as housing and utility service, medicine, agriculture, energetics, informational technologies.

“The contest of technological business incubation consists of two stages. The first stage is collection of industrial innovative projects and their independent inspection in major companies. Selection of projects for technological business incubation is performed by the Expert Board which includes representatives of the akimat of Astana city, scientific and business structures of the city. The second stage includes accounting and legal support od the projects, providing of infrastructure services”, - told Batyrbek Daubayev, who is a general manager of the Division of projects’ incubation and management.

According to him, on the base of JSC “Astana Innovations” there is a business incubator with an area of approximately 150 sqm, where representatives of young start-up companies receive almost everything, including computer equipment and free Internet. “Then we assist in marketing investigations holding, business plan development, receiving patent protection, various licenses, certificates, testimonials and others”, - said he.

In addition, according to the general manager, on the base of business incubator different lectures are carried out weekly: “For these lectures we attract leading national and foreign specialists who have great experience in the development of start-up companies and business establishement. The audience includes various people: young scientists, students, employees of different state and national companies”.

Since the beginning of 2013, JSC “Astana Innoations” has received approximately 10 applications for participation in the contest of technological business incubation, including applications form Eurasional National University and Nazarbayev University. “Currently we are forming pool for projects’ presentation at the Expert Board. Among them there are projects connected with implementation of energy-saving technologies in various branches: energy-supply, heat-supply; there are apllications of IT-type: development of new software for different industrial branches. There are a lot of directions. Applications come from students, scientists and businessmen”, - told Batyrbek Dautbayev.

According to the general manager, “Fly Farm” project can be a very good example, it was chosen last year as a result of the event “Astana start-up weekend”. Scope of this event is widely-used world format, wherein young scientists and inventors gather at one place for three days, they suggest ideas, upon the expiry of three days they provide a model of business plan of their idea. “Fly Farm” project was developed by the students of Nazarbayev University. They suggested their idea of growing maggots (fly larvae) to supply a want of poultry plants and fishing. “We evaluated this project. The jury of this contest awarded the first position to it. After that the project was approved for technological business incubation. Now guys produce maggots which are modern combined feed. Interest for this production was expressed by many corporations, poultry plants of Astana and other cities. This is a bright example of how people created manufacture from their idea within a year”, - said Batyrbek Dautbayev.