The VI Interregional Conference «Industrial Cooperation and Development of the Industrial Potential of Enterprises» was held on September 11, 2020 at the Marins Park Hotel in Rostov-on-Don. The participants discussed the prospects for the development of centers of technological excellence based on regional industrial enterprises.

The interregional conference «Industrial cooperation and development of industrial potential of enterprises» is held under the patronage of the Administration of the city of Rostov-on-Don and the Union «Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Rostov Region» with the assistance of NP «National Partnership for the Development of Subcontracting». This is the 6th conference in a row. Svetlana Kambulova, Deputy Head of the Rostov-on-Don City Administration for Economics, spoke in her welcoming speech about how much has been done over the years. She stressed that today it is especially important to develop interregional contacts, exchange successful practices in the development of production chains and ties.

Andrey Atamantsev, Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Rostov Region, continued the topic. He highly appreciated the cooperation with the Administration of the city of Rostov-on-Don and the regional chamber of commerce and industry in terms of the development of industrial cooperation and import substitution.

«We have recommended three enterprises for the Federal Industrial Development Fund, which will receive preferential loans in the amount of over one billion rubles,» — noted Andrey Atamantsev. The Regional Industrial Development Fund, which is also ready to provide assistance to industrial enterprises, is working in the region.

Entrepreneurs from 15 regions of Russia took part in the conference. Alexander Fyodorov, President of the National Partnership for the Development of Subcontracting, made a proposal from Yaroslavl. He called on regional territorial chambers of commerce and industry to join forces.

— We need to jointly formulate the task of developing our own subcontracting to state corporations, monopoly enterprises, industry unions and associations. It is necessary to provide an advantage in technical conditions to those who have cooperation or subcontracting, — said Alexander Fedorov.

He considers the experience of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Rostov and Yaroslavl regions to be a positive experience of interregional cooperation. The business mission of the Don enterprises to Yaroslavl demonstrated a keen interest among entrepreneurs in establishing new technological industrial chains. This experience should be replicated throughout Russia, the speaker is sure.

Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Rostov Region Sergey Shneider supported his colleague and noted the importance of interregional interaction and the commonality of the problems facing industrialists. Valery Korolev, Chairman of the RF CCI Working Group on Cooperation and Engineering Development, Head of the Investment and Innovation Department of the Rostov Region CCI, spoke about the proposals of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry being implemented in practice today.

He said that entrepreneurs have taken the initiative to create centers of technological excellence. The idea of ​​developing a Concept for creating a central heating station on the basis of private companies, proposed by the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, received the support of the RF Ministry of Industry and Trade and was included in the Action Plan («road map») in the field of engineering and industrial design under the Order of the Government of the RF dated 11.06.2020 No. 1546.

Technological production centers are a consortium of closely related organizations with a common goal of advancing development of a certain technological direction. The base enterprise of the center is a research and production organization or an engineering company with a significant scientific and technological groundwork, a set of special competencies and practical experience in introducing technological innovations in a narrow direction of science and technology. The creation of the first three blocks of the center will have to be subsidized by the state in a significant amount, the development of the remaining blocks — at the expense of its own and borrowed funds. The more such growth points there are in Russia, the faster the mechanism for generating new technologies will be created on an ongoing basis.

— The intellectual creative potential in the average regional business is not in high demand today. He possesses colossal competences and ambitions of the highest level. And our task is to find and support these enterprises together with the state. The Chamber of Commerce and Industry has singled out this direction as one of the priorities in its activity, — said Valery Korolev.

He is confident that the topic related to the technological development of industry is becoming a priority at all levels of government, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry plays one of the most important roles in this process.

Andrey Khrapov, Deputy Head of the Association of Metalworking Enterprises, shared his experience of interaction with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Rostov Region. He made a presentation as part of one of three sessions on the topic: «The best tools and projects for the development of industrial cooperation and subcontracting at the national and supranational level.»

Stanislav Kislov, a representative of NPP Geoenergetika LLC from the city of Kaluga, and Anton Filippov, head of the localization department of NovaWind JSC, made presentations at the second session. She touched upon the creation of an interregional system of innovative and technological development in various industries.

The third session was devoted to the problems of increasing production efficiency (digitalization and robotization of production, lean production, etc.). Among the speakers were: Anastasia Mulenko, Deputy Head of the North Caucasian Territorial Center for Corporate Transport Services of JSC Russian Railways, Project Manager of Intellectica Alexander Gromovenko, Head of the Marketing Department of the First Consulting Institute of Social and Economic Development Kristina Kotova and Deputy Director of NefteKhim-Service Company LLC «Andrey Popenko.

The interregional exchange of subcontracts with the participation of a delegation of industrial enterprises of the regions of the Russian Federation, where the participants were able to continue the discussion with each other and exchange contacts for further cooperation, was held after the end of the session.

The round table within the framework of the national project «Labor productivity and employment support» was held at the end of the business program. It was attended by the head of the project of the ANO «Federal Center of Competence in the Sphere of Labor Productivity» Sergey Mudrov, manager of the Regional Center of Competence in the field of increasing labor productivity of the Rostov region Vitaly Kolosov, General Director of the ANO «Southern Regional Agency for the Development of Qualifications» Irina Rybchinskaya, Victoria Svetitskaya, HR business consultant.