Caliber

Technopark "Caliber" is a platform for the development of innovative technologies, uniting more than 150 high-tech companies and unique infrastructure facilities on one territory, including a testing ground for unmanned vehicles, a data processing center, a children's animation technopark, and a satellite teleport.

The history of Caliber dates back to 1932 as the first large specialized enterprise in the USSR for the production of accurate measuring devices, and since 2015, Caliber PJSC has been transformed into a private technopark.

Among the main industry specializations of the Technopark: instrument making, additive technologies, unmanned and electric transport, hydrogen power, telecommunications technologies, creative industries, medical research.

2017: Testing ground for unmanned vehicles

The first open testing ground for unmanned vehicles appeared in the summer of 2017 in the Caliber technopark on Godovikov Street in the Ostankino district of Moscow. The 400-meter-long highway reproduces the urban environment: it has bus stops, pedestrian crossings, road signs, marking corresponding to GOST, as well as circular traffic.

2014

The Interdepartmental Commission of the Moscow Government approved in December 2014 the application of the non-state company Kalibr OJSC to assign it the status of the Management Company - thus, a new, 7th technopark appeared in Moscow. The area of ​ ​ 9 hectares is located in the SVAO and was once part of industrial zone No. 14-1 in the Ostankino district. In 2014, modernization was completed - 75 thousand square meters are located here. Fully equipped areas for scientific and laboratory centers or production. About 300 companies work on the territory of Caliber, in which 400 specialists work. Having received the status of a management company, the company plans to invest about 300 million rubles in the development of the technopark in the coming years and increase the indicators by 25%.

"The interaction of the state with non-state companies and stimulating them to develop their territories precisely for scientific developments and production is the most important part of the city's policy in the field of industry, Oleg Bocharov, head of the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship, comments, - the city is ready to encourage the development of such special areas, provide a reduced land tax, exempt from property tax, but we are also waiting for companies to fulfill their obligations. This is, first of all, the use of the site for its intended purpose and its development for production, focused on the domestic and foreign markets. "

Not only the Management Company receives benefits from the city, but also its residents, whom the city also exempts from property tax and, in addition, subsidizes interest on loans for purchased equipment. In order to obtain resident status, the tenant must contact the same interdepartmental commission and protect his project. Thus, developing through special areas (technoparks and technopolises), the city encourages innovative and high-tech companies, accumulating them in clusters.

"We are moving away from inefficient disparate enterprises, combining them into dynamic structures of the future - industrial clusters with a dominant representation of private capital. Such clusters are convenient in that they can unite residents and tenants on an industry basis, strengthening their connection with science and the development of one direction or another, adds Oleg Bocharov. "In addition, official technology parks will be more competitive compared to conventional industrial zones and will become more attractive for private investment even compared to the commercial sector. So, a small innovative company will rather go to a technopark, where it will be able to receive benefits and support from the state, a set of additional services from the management company, than to a standard business center or an unequipped industrial zone. "

In the coming years, the number of such growth points in the city will increase geometrically, the Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship adds. The potential is huge - more than 200 industrial zones with an area of ​ ​ more than 17 thousand hectares, of which half is used inefficiently or completely abandoned.

Technopark "Caliber" is an example of the transformation of an industrial zone into an area with high intellectual, scientific and industrial content. According to Alexei Rhodes, General Director of Caliber OJSC, the status of the Management Company will allow attracting at least 50 large residents in 10 years. The company plans to invest 300 million rubles in the development of the site, create an additional 900 jobs. According to the business plan, Caliber will fill 75% of the technopark with residents, the total revenue of which will be at least 3600 million rubles.

The targeted reorganization of the capital's industrial zones into technology parks will form a new ecosystem for the development of production and industry in Moscow, will lead to an increase in the number of jobs, including for highly qualified specialists.