OREANDA-NEWS. The Executive Chairman of RUSNANO Management Company Anatoly Chubais and the CEO of OSJC Special Economic Zones (OJSC SEZ) Vadim Tretyakov signed an agreement on cooperation between the companies at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The partners will create a mechanism to facilitate the installation of RUSNANO high-tech projects at industrial sites in territories under the management of OJSC SEZ. They will also work together to attract Russian and foreign high-tech companies as residents of special economic zones.

One of the territories managed by OJSC SEZ, the Dubna Special Economic Zone near Moscow, has already won a reputation as a fast-developing innovation focus. More than 4 billion rubles have been invested in the last eight years for the installation and development of 96 resident companies at the Dubna Zone. These investments have created more than 1,200 high-tech jobs and total revenue of Dubna companies is in excess of 5 billion rubles. The special focus at Dubna is on nanotechnology and five production facilities, set up as RUSNANO investment projects, are now operational there.

OJSC SEZ currently administers five special economic zones focused on innovation. These zones currently host 221 companies with total investment commitments of 150 billion rubles, including 11 RUSNANO projects with total budget of 3.7 billion rubles, of which 1.7 billion rubles was provided by RUSNANO.