Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, plans to build a technology campus 40 km outside the city by 2014. Innopolis , as it will be called, will feature a 5,000-student IT university (possibly partnered with Carnegie Mellon University) and a city that will support 60,000 highly qualified IT specialists and their families.
The plan’s sponsors hope that the city will become a center for IT specialists and companies, but they also hope that it will be a new source of economic growth. Theybelieve Innopolis will create 5,000 to 10,000 jobs for residents of Tatarstan and attract 10,000 to 15,000 IT professionals to the city.
The project will be a public-private partnership. The government will build the infrastructure and private businesses will invest in housing and office space.
Innopolis will be larger in size than its sister project Skolkovo, a hightech business center near Moscow intended to encourage modernization of the economy and reduce Russia’s dependence on oil and gas. Unlike Skolkovo, however, Innopolis is not able to offer special tax incentives or large grants to attract innovation companies at present, although Tatarstan has requested that the special status given to Skolkovo be given to other regions as well.
The Skolkovo Foundation has said that it will work with Innopolis and any other such innovation centers in the future.
Источник: cybernautika.com