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Experts talked on reasons for countryИs low technological development

For today, the country occupies 52nd place, lagging from Romania, Greece, ahead of Moldova and South Africa.

Bolat Zhansugurov, deputy chairman of the Board of JSC Kazakhstan Institute of Industry Development, said that in Kazakhstan the law level of labour productivity still remains at the VII International Scientific and Practical Conference "Industrial Policy of Kazakhstan: Increasing the Competitiveness of Enterprises by Increasing Labour Productivity".

Kazakhstan reached the level of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia in 2016. However, there is still a significant gap from other developed OECD countries According to the study of the index of global competitiveness, among 137 countries in the world in terms of the level of technological development, Kazakhstan took 52nd place," he said.

He called a low technological level as one of the key reasons for the low level of labour productivity of domestic enterprises.

One of our tools, which is currently in high demand, is the cost recovery for the improvement of technological processes. It includes technological and energy audit, development of industrial design, maintenance of support and management of production processes, installation, supervision, commissioning. In the current year, almost every second application received a refund and, compared to the previous year, the total amount of compensation has doubled. The most frequent applications are for compensation of installation costs, commissioning, and energy audit. This suggests that the procedure for recovering costs is much easier," he said.

According to the expert, an equally important tool is the cost recovery for improving the organization of production, which involves the introduction of energy-efficient and green technologies, project management standards and certification of lean manufacturing elements. This tool provides cost recovery for the development and implementation of automated control systems, which is one of the key elements of enterprise digitalization.

Taking into account the outlined trend of digitalization, this year the number of compensations has increased dramatically and today 5 entities for a total of 18.8 million tenge Three companies have been provided support for a total of 146.5 million tenge. The Institute provides a tool "Refunding of expenditure for enhancing competence of the enterprise", which is provided in the case of training and retraining of personnel, including top managers, through trainings, internships. Much of this depends on the head of the enterprise who makes decisions, who determines for himself how much he is interested in improving the competence of the staff," he said.

At the same time, Bolat Zhansugurov underlined that the most important direction was the increase of the competence of personnel.

Last year, our institute analyzed the factors of increasing manufacturing exports, where a whole section was devoted to the quality of personnel and the requirements of industrial enterprises. Notably, one out of every five enterprises noted the item "Training of such specialists in universities in Kazakhstan is not carried out." This fact underscores the systemic nature of the problem, the isolation of theory and practice, which is due to the discrepancy between the curricula and the requirements of employers, this results in responsible level of training," he said.

At the same time, according to him, the tool "Cost recovery or expertise of a comprehensive plan for an industrial innovation project", despite the popularity in the first years of implementation, there are practically no applications today. He urged business leaders to look at this tool.

Understanding that the promotion of our services on one hand depends on marketing, the promotion of our tools, on the other hand, on improving them, we are currently amending our rules, simplifying. Thanks to the changes adopted last year, the costs of enterprises implementing activity of at least 1 year in the priority sectors of the economy, are being refunding at a rate of 40%, but not more than 60 million tenge for each of them. Thus, one enterprise can receive comprehensive support up to 210 million tenge," said the expert.

In addition, according to the deputy chairman of the Board, in the near future the number of documents attached to the application will be reduced by half. All criteria for performers were excluded, with the exception of the foreign employee involved, the general period for consideration of the application was reduced from 17 to 12 working days, it is provided for the possibility of submitting an application electronically after the completion of automation procedures.

In general, according to the vice chairman of the Industrial Development and Industrial Safety Committee of the Ministry for Investment and Development Kanat Baitov, next year the second five-year plan of the state program for forced industrial and innovative development is being completed. Over the years of industrialization, since 2010, more than a thousand enterprises have been sold. Over the past three years, more than 370 enterprises have been introduced. As a result of the ongoing work - the manufacturing industry demonstrates positive dynamics. The increase of 5.7% in 2017 compared to 2015. Labour productivity in 2017 by the same period in 2016 grew by 3.4% and amounted to 10.2 million per person today. Most of the growth occurred in the priority sectors - oil and gas engineering, automotive, ferrous metallurgy.

Source: BNews.kz

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Experts talked on reasons for countryИs low technological development

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