Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASIs)

The Agency supports projects aimed at systemic changes in improving the business climate and supporting innovation, education and training, health and social services, regional and urban development. Among the key initiatives of ASPI are the National Rating of the State of the Investment Climate in the Regions, the digital platform for working with the appeals of entrepreneurs "For Business," the program "100 city leaders," the model of increasing the innovative openness of large companies, the University 20.35 and the platform of the National Technology Initiative.

History

2021: Building a Digital Lab

On September 16, 2021, the Strategic Initiatives Agency announced the creation of the first Russian Digital Laboratory, which will collect the best practices from IT companies of existing technological solutions in the healthcare system. It was initiated to implement the National Social Initiative (NSI) project together with DataMasters. More details here.

2020: AI Initiatives

2015:10 billion rubles for the "National Technology Initiative"

On September 25, 2015, it became known about the allocation of 10 billion rubles from the federal budget for the National Technology Initiative (STI) program, covering a wide range of areas. The corresponding order was given to the government of the Russian Federation by the president, Russia Vladimir Putin they wrote. Vedomosti

According to the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASK), which will manage the funds issued, they, in particular, will go to the development of unmanned vehicles, aircraft and sea transport, the development of personal medicine, artificial components of consciousness and psychics, a security system for personal food and water production, as well as distributed energy.

Vladimir Putin instructed the government to allocate 10 billion rubles from the budget for unmanned KamAZ and other technical innovations

The directions were chosen on the basis that the volume of each of the listed markets on a global scale should exceed $100 billion by 2035. In addition, the absence of generally accepted standards and the possibility of replacing intermediaries with management software were taken into account. By October 2015, it is planned to approve roadmaps for each of the directions.

Among the projects that STI will cover, it is worth noting the development of an unmanned truck led by Kamaz. According to the representative of the Kama Automobile Plant Oleg Afanasyev, the money raised from the federal budget will be used to create a prototype self-driving car, the total cost of which can be 17-18 billion rubles. The share of state funding in this project is not specified.

According to Dmitry Peskov, Director of the Young Professionals Department, in 2016, budget funding for the National Technology Initiative will be distributed mainly in four areas:

• AeroNet (unmanned aerial vehicles),
• AutoNet (unmanned vehicles),
• MariNet (unmanned maritime transport) and
• NeuroNet (distributed components of consciousness).

At the same time, Peskov did not rule out that "mature projects" from other areas can also receive part of the investment.^[1]

According to the National Technical Initiative program, until 2025, a Russian programming language will appear and fully secure communication will be provided, and by 2035, even teleportation-based data transfer may become a reality (the idea of ​ ​ developing teleportation was popular in the USSR and drowned out along with its collapse).

2013: Creation of FRII

In March 2013, the President Russia Vladimir Putin held a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives.

During the meeting, Putin announced the creation of a fund to support entrepreneurial initiatives on the Internet (IRI) within the framework of the ISI. More details here.

2012

ASK receives 500 million rubles for 3 years

On August 9, 2012, it became known that the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) will receive funding from the budget in the amount of 500 million rubles for three years^[2] for^[2].

In 2013-2014, ASK will receive 400 million rubles, and in 2015 - another 110 million. According to Vedomosti sources, this funding was agreed in the Ministry of Finance. So far, the ISI has received only 100 million rubles from Vnesheconombank and, as previously reported, intended to look for funds for its activities in the private sector.

ASIs Director General Andrei Nikitin told the newspaper that the funds that the agency will receive are a property contribution from the federal government. Initially, it was assumed that ASI would receive this contribution in the form of a building, but after negotiations it was agreed that the contribution would be made in the form of "live" money. At the same time, as Nikitin pointed out, in 2012 alone, the ISI budget will amount to 400 million rubles.

The newspaper Vedomosti in August 2012 calls the main result of the work of the ASK - the launch of an initiative in which it plans to prepare measures to improve the investment climate in 22 areas at once. As a result of this work, Russia is expected to be able to rise in the Doing Business ranking from 120th to 20th place by 2020. However, at this point, the ASK only put forward ideas to improve the investment climate.

Identified 14 areas of activity and structure

The Russian media criticized the creation of the agency: in particular, the Kommersant newspaper wrote that the ASK would have to independently look for itself "use, financing and meaning of existence," since its goals and methods of work were not clearly spelled out.

According to the statute, the Agency carries out its activities in 14 priority areas:

• promoting the initiation and promotion of socially significant projects of medium-sized enterprises, including in the social sphere;
• promoting initiatives to improve the entrepreneurial climate, helping to overcome barriers in the development of medium-sized entrepreneurs, including in the social sphere;
• ensuring the dissemination of best practices for supporting entrepreneurship, including in the social sphere, in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation;
• promotion of projects and initiatives to improve the image of medium-sized enterprises;
• Establishment and development of the Agency's regional network (branches and representative offices) through direct interaction with the business community;
• providing information support for the activities of medium-sized enterprises;
• promoting the development of a system of professional certification of employees;
• Support professional associations to establish professional standards (qualification requirements);
• development of mechanisms to provide long-term support to young professionals and recommendations for improving secondary and higher vocational education;
• assistance in the development of a system for forecasting prospective specialist needs for medium-sized businesses and new modern forms of education;
• assistance in the development and promotion of young professional groups implementing socially significant projects and the intensification of entrepreneurial activities in the social sphere;
• Promoting forms of support for social projects and initiatives, including through targeted capital and other financial instruments;
• interaction with public organizations, development institutions and the expert community;
• Other areas ensuring the achievement of the objectives of the Agency's activities.

In accordance with these priorities, three main areas of activity have been identified in the structure of ISI:

• "New Business" - support for young talented entrepreneurs, director of the direction - Avetisyan Artem Davidovich.

• "Young professionals" - the creation and support of professional associations and associations of workers, the director of the direction - Dmitry Nikolayevich Peskov.

• "Social projects" - support, creation and development of social institutions, director of the direction - Yablonsky Vladimir Borisovich.

For the development of the Agency's partner network in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and for the implementation of the project "National Entrepreneurial Initiative to Improve the Investment Climate in the Russian Federation," Pirozhenko Alexander Alexandrovich (until 2014) is responsible.

Vladimir Putin headed the supervisory board

As of July 2012, the members of the supervisory board were:

• Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin - President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Supervisory Board.
• Andrei Belousov - Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
• Sergey Renatovich Borisov - President of the All-Russian Public Organization of Small and Medium Enterprises "OPORA of Russia"
• Sergey Ilyich Vorobyov - CEO, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ward Howel International
• Alexander Sergeyevich Galushka - President of the All-Russian Public Organization "Business Russia"
• Gref German Oskarovich - President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia
• Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dmitriyev - Chairman of the State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Activity (Vnesheconombank)
• Katyrin Sergey Nikolaevich - President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation
• Minnikhanov Rustam Nurgalievich - President of the Republic of Tatarstan
• Nabiullina Elvira Sahipzadovna - Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation
• Nikitin Andrey Sergeevich - General Director of the autonomous non-profit organization "Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects"
• Fadeev Valery Alexandrovich - Editor-in-Chief of Expert Magazine, Chairman of the Commission of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on Economic Development and Support of Entrepreneurship
• Shokhin Alexander Nikolaevich - President of the All-Russian Association of Employers "Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs."

First Regional Representative Office - Tatarstan

The first in Russia regional representative office of ASI opened on June 19, 2012 in the capital of Tatarstan on the territory of the IT park.^[3]

2011: Order of Prime Minister V. Putin to establish an agency

The autonomous non-profit organization "Agency of Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects" was created in accordance with the instructions of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin dated May 17, 2011 No. VP-P16-3168 (para. 15) and May 27, 2011 No. VP-P13-3511.

By order of the Government of the Russian Federation dated August 11, 2011 No. 1393-r, a decision was made to establish the Agency, the charter of the Agency and the composition of its supervisory board were approved. In accordance with the charter, the founder of the Agency is the Government of the Russian Federation. The Agency's management bodies have approved the supervisory board (collegiate supreme body), the directorate (collegiate executive body), the general director (sole executive body).

Launch of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives (presentation by Prime Minister V.V. Putin).