On August 5, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, Minister Mikhail Abyzov and Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited workshops producing composite materials at the Moskva Technopolis. They were shown new techniques introduced in the production of composite materials, wind farms, equipment for the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief, and marine facilities. In addition, the guests visited three research centre laboratories: a polymerisation lab, a polyacrylonitrile fibre lab and a black fibre lab.
The decision was made to create a platform for conferences on military and industrial complex branches at the technopolis, and to display permanent armament, communication means and navigation system expositions.
The operation of the technopolis is a clear example of the successful implementation of the principles of public-private partnership in the military and industrial complex as its laboratories produce high-tech products for defence purposes using private capital. At the meeting, Mr Rogozin said that the idea to form sustainable public-private partnership has existed for a long time and has not been clearly formulated. However, in May 2002, the President supported the creation of the Council for Public-Private Partnership under the Military-Industrial Commission. Mikhail Abyzov became the chairperson of this commission.
The council seeks to improve the legal and regulatory framework, to develop cooperation and to attract private companies on the subcontractor level, to support pilot projects on creating and producing uniform specimens produced with the participation of private capital, and to use the mechanisms of public-private partnership when using state investment in the re-equipment of capital assets of the defence complex.
Mr Rogozin said: “We understand that we cannot do without attracting private capital. We know some examples of such partnership regarding big corporations that was exotic, that was not a trend. We are interested in developing public-private partnership. This is a new turn in economic development; this concerns personnel training, new jobs and popularising these professions. We can do this only by attracting private capital to the industry.”
The development of public-private partnership is an important area in implementing the mechanisms and principles of the Open Government. The experience of such companies should be promoted, Mr Abyzov said at the recent conference on the development of the military and industrial complex. “Based on this experience, (it is necessary to) create a history of success, demonstrative for attracting private national capital. In this case, I’m sure that the tasks of the military and industrial complex will be implemented,” he said.
