Its key facility is the Gatchina Nanopark, Russia’s first industrial nanotechnology park. The 17-hectare area will accommodate a business incubator and industrial buildings for startup projects and high-tech companies.
The agreement was signed by Leningrad Region Governor Alexander Drozdenko and Kurchatov Institute Director Mikhail Kovalchuk. The parties plan to jointly work out a program for the cluster’s development, and to collaborate in scientific and technical development, personnel training and commercial and production cooperation.
“The Kurchatov Institute is our key partner in developing the region’s innovative economy. The PIK research reactor, a project run by the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics, will undoubtedly allow us to maintain leadership in fundamental research,” the governor said.
According to the regional government, the region’s investment activity is based on cluster policy designed to establish new and develop existing cluster-based production facilities in priority areas of industry, as well as to create engineering centers. Priority areas are as follows: shipbuilding, the medical and pharmaceutical industry, the motor industry, construction materials production and the food industry.
