Tomsk region shared its experience on developing entrepreneurship and cooperation with federal institutions of SMEs development during the all-Russian webinar in RF CCI

On September 06, 2016, the representatives of Tomsk CCI participated in the all-Russian webinar organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.

  On September 06, 2016, the representatives of Tomsk CCI participated in the all-Russian webinar organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation. The webinar was called “Main areas of cooperation between Russian CCI and the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the Federal Corporation for Developing Small and Medium Business (SME Corporation).

  The seminar-meeting was attended by vice-presidents of CCI Russia Maksim Fateev and Elena Dibova, deputy director of the Department of SMEs Development Aleksei Shestoperov (the Ministry of Economic Development), representatives of AO SME Corporation Veronika Putilina, Nataliia Kondakova, Artem Andreev, Nigina Asrorova, Rector of the International Institute for Entrepreneurs Cooperation at the CCI Russia Anna Palagina, Director of the CCI Development Department Dmitrii Kuzmin and the representatives of territorial CCIs.

  The key issues for discussion concerned the participation of CCI in priority SMEs development projects implemented in Russia; establishment of integrated information and service infrastructure for SMEs support; creation and development of multifunctional centers for business; provision of methodological and legal support of SMEs’ applications and projects in AO SME Corporation; implementation of SME Corporation’s business educational programs; implementation of youth entrepreneurship development program “You are the entrepreneur” and cooperation with AO “Russian Export Centre” and Industry Development Fund.

  Vice-president of CCI Russia Maksim Fateev referred to the CCI Russia congress that had been organized on May 1, 2016, where Russian President Vladimir Putin had commended the work of CCI system aimed at business support. Moreover, in accordance with the new version of the Law of Russian Federation “On CCIs of the Russian Federation” the range of chambers’ functions is substantially extended. For example, CCIs are now referred to organizations forming the SMEs support infrastructure. Maskim Fateev underlined that the involvement of CCIs system in SMEs support events is going to increase thanks to high potential of regional CCIs and agreements signed with AO SME Corporation, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, AO “Russian Export Centre”, the Federal State Funded Institution “Foundation for Contribution to the Development of Small Forms of Enterprises in Science and Technical Spheres”, the Industry Development Fund.

  In her speech vice-president of CCI Russia Elena Dibova noted that recently there has been more and more discussions on particular support of individual and small enterprises. In that regard, special mention should be made of promising credit program “Program 6.5” launched by the SME Corporation.

  In his statement Deputy Director of the Department of SMEs Development Aleksei Shestoperov (the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation) told about the implementation of SMEs development program in 2016, areas for cooperation with CCIs and tasks for the next year.

  In the framework of the seminar-meeting three regions (Tula, Briansk and Tomsk), the CCIs of which are most successfully cooperating with the regional authorities responsible for SMEs support mechanisms, shared their experience.

  In particular, Director of the Center for Development of Foreign Economic Activity of Tomsk CCI Aleksandr Belyaev told the webinar participants about cooperation with Tomsk Region Administration on SMEs development events in the framework of the entrepreneurship development program and competitions organized by the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. Also he told about the good practice of the Regional Export Support Center (Tomsk CCI) that realizes its events with the support of Tomsk Regional Small and Medium Enterprise Development Fund, Regional Department of Industry and Entrepreneurship Development and the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.

  Besides, Aleksandr Belyaev noted that thanks to the active participation of regional authorities and SMEs development infrastructure Tomsk region has many times been chosen as the pilot region for SMEs development initiatives implementation. In the course of the discussion Tomsk region’s experience in SMEs development was highly appreciated by experts.