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Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop (2002)

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. "Steps Taken by the Sarov City Administration and Most Important Organizations in Support of Small Innovative Businesses." Successes and Difficulties of Small Innovative Firms in Russian Nuclear Cities: Proceedings of a Russian-American Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2002.

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Solving these problems requires attracting investments to new conversion-oriented production enterprises. The Sarov City Administration and the management of the city-forming enterprises—VNIIEF and Avangard—are working to support conversion enterprises by means of several targeted programs. The measures included in these programs are aimed at achieving a number of goals, namely,

  • creating and developing conversion-oriented production facilities

  • increasing output volumes for high-tech and science-intensive civilian products and commercializing technological developments

  • expanding job opportunities for employees displaced from the defense sector

  • creating a favorable business climate to aid in attracting investments

To achieve these goals, the following objectives should be addressed:

  • stabilizing and creating conditions for the city's economic development

  • modernizing existing production facilities and creating new ones in the civilian sector

  • ensuring employment for the population and creating new jobs

  • improving and developing the production and innovation infrastructure

  • preserving and developing the social infrastructure

This report covers the activities of the Sarov City Administration and the management of the city-forming enterprises in support of small innovative businesses and conversion-oriented production facilities. It cites data on investments and describes the concept of the Innovative Technology Center being established in the city as a key element in the innovation infrastructure.

TAXPRIVILEGES GRANTED BY THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO SMALL INNOVATIVE FIRMS

The Sarov City Duma grants certain taxation privileges to enterprises and other institutional taxpayers having community development-oriented investment projects and owing no tax debts as of the date of filing their tax declarations. This action is taken to provide incentives for business activity, attract additional funds on the revenue side of the Sarov city budget, preserve existing jobs and create new ones, and implement welfare programs in the Sarov closed administrative zone. The privileges are granted in accordance with the provisions of Articles 1 and 56 of the

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Front Matter (R1-R14)
Nuclear Cities Initiative: Interests of the Program (1-7)
Analysis of the Results of the Targeted Program for Promoting Employment for the Population of Minatom Closed Administrative-Territorial Zones for 1998-2000 (8-21)
Technobusiness in Russia's Atomic Cities (22-23)
Innovation Activity in Russian Higher Education (24-38)
Challenges at the Zelenograd Technopark (39-47)
State's Efforts in Small Business Development: Two Models (48-56)
Development of Small Innovative Companies in Sarov to Serve the Russian Market (57-67)
Development of Small Innovative Companies in Snezhinsk to Serve the Russian Market (68-78)
Development of Small Innovative Companies in Zarechny to Serve the Russian Market (79-87)
Development of Small Innovative Companies in Obninsk to Serve the Russian Market (88-96)
Companies Based on Technologies Developed at U.S. National Laboratories (97-100)
The Creation of Sustainable Business in Russia's Nuclear Cities (101-110)
Russian and American Business Practices and Laws: Advice to Businesses in Russian Nuclear Cities (111-113)
Support for Innovation Activites by the City Administration: Review of Innovative Firms in Zheleznogorsk (114-138)
Steps Taken by the Zarechny City Administration to Support Small Innovative Companies (139-147)
The Role of Foreign Partners as Investors or Customers in the Development of Small Inonovative Business in Snezhinsk (148-156)
Steps Taken by the Sarov City Administration and Most Important Organizations in Support of Small Innovative Businesses (157-166)
Activities of the Obninsk City Administration Aimed at Supporting Small Innovative Firms (167-181)
Small Business and the Macro Economy: Some Observations (182-189)
Steps Being Undertaken by the Snezhinsk City Administration to Support Small Innovative Companies (190-199)
The Role of Foreign Partners as Investors or Customers in the Development of Small Innovative Firms (200-208)
The Role of Foreign Partners as Investors and Customers in the Development of Small Innovative Companies (209-215)
The Role of Nongovernmental Approaches to Business Development (216-222)
Small Innovative Business in the Nuclear Cities (223-229)
Highlights of Presentations and Discussions (230-232)
Appendix A: Committee Members and Participants (233-238)
Appendix B: Russian Science Cities (239-242)