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Published: March 24th, 2016

Lomonosov housing MSU

On the theme:

Scientific-practical conference "The Russian industry - the state and prospects". The conference will be attended by the leaders of the real sector companies, the employees of the banking community, experts in the field of organization of production, the developers of the system of company management organizations, experts on global trends in the development of engineering and industry in general, scientists RAS institutes and universities of Russia, the editors of the leading economic journals.


Moderators:

Anatoly Porokhovsky, PhD, Professor, Head of the Department of Political Economy, Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University

Denis Voloshin, the Economics Faculty of Moscow State University


Among participants:

A. Babayev, O. Brizhak, D. Voloshin, R. Heads, I. Gromov, I. Isahan, S. Kochetkov , L. Kravchenko, A. Nikonov, A. Porokhovsky, I. Reshetnikov, E. Rudyk, O. Sukharev, I. Filatov, M. Chirkov, N. Toporkov

In what state is the Russian industry today? What production state readily supports? And is there any chance of real import substitution in Russia? Answers to these questions were looking today at the Moscow Economic Forum. Active participants of the discussion "The Russian industry, the state and prospects" has been experts in the field of production, experts on global trends in the development of engineering and industry, RAS institutes scientists and universities of Russia, the editors of the leading economic journals.

The moderator of the conference, Anatoly Porokhovsky, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Political Economy, Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, after welcoming speech noted that on one hand, statistics show a positive trend: production volume increased in general, 85% of enterprises are privatized and are in private hands, gradually updating equipment. On the other hand, the industry is losing people, employment rates are falling in the industrial sector.

Hot debate revolved around the creation of the Industrial Development Fund. The structure is active only one year, the final results were presented at the conference . Among more than a thousand applications for loans from the state, it was approved by a total of 60, amounting to - 20, 4 bln.. In the list of industries that have received the support, the enterprises on the engineering fields, pharmacy and chemistry particularly enjoyed the success .

"The fund slightly reformatted its direction and now provides loans not only on the implementation of investment projects in a narrow focus, but also in a broader format. We have four programs. Financed investment projects from almost any manufacturing industries ", - said Mykola Toporkov expert of financial structure.

Answering the questions of the skeptics about the very existence of the Fund, the irrational choice of credited enterprises Nikolai Toporkov, explained: "We do not finance start-ups, the support is provided only to those industrial companies that have a history behind them, we eliminate the risks associated with the waste of public money."

Some speakers felt creation of the Fund a belated event, given the fact that the crisis has literally buried a substantial share of small industrial enterprises and there is no possibility today to revive them, even through the program. Among these "blunders" of the state policy in the field of industry, experts called errors in the geopolitical planning, withdrawal of financial flows into offshore companies, the low level of competitiveness of domestic enterprises, the bureaucratization of institutions for the representatives of business, especially when the state is necessary to get the support.

During the conference it was noted that the Russian industry is in critical condition and the barriers to its development are: low level of competitiveness of domestic products, a high degree of equioment deterioration, excessive energy consumption, lack of access to business innovation and investment infrastructure. "Our industry can not produce competitive products now because there is no access to the financial resources necessary for the re-industrialization of the economy", - Roman Golov summed up.

Entrepreneurs themselves do not differ with ingenuity and the desire to "move" on the Western market counterparts, the experts said. Management has no understanding of the basic fundamentals of the business, thus do not wish to improve their qualifications at all. A quarter-century of free market, and the plants do not understand, how to promote their products. "Russian production is there, but it is very strange - totally fun" - said Igor Reshetnikov, head of the Russian MES center in his speech.

Alla Nikonova gave her recommendations to address urgent problems. First you need to create a healthy system: the state - business - economics, to establish the mechanisms of innovation in the enterprise. The expert noted that in Russia the production of knowledge has increased, but their impact on the economy sank. This is due to the fact that businesses are not interested in innovation, as well as many companies prefer to use foreign innovations. Alla Nikonov stressed that there was a visible effect, innovation and industry should be in a bundle.

During the free discussion such key issues as: the rise of domestic production, ensuring its competitiveness in the external markets, innovation, the implementation of import substitution policies, training of industrial personnel, who will be able to modernize have been actively discussed.

It is very important, said the speaker, to believe domestic producers themselves and stop being afraid of change.

Source: PR department of MEF