Rusnano-2015: rainbow nanoprospects
Rusnano has reached its design capacity
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The volume of investments in nanotechnology development projects with the participation of the Russian Nanotechnology Corporation (Rusnano) until 2015 will amount to 310 billion rubles. Of these, 130 billion rubles will be invested by the state. The state Corporation has already reached its design capacity (15 projects per month) and intends to repay its debts by 2015.
Rusnano CEO Anatoly Chubais said at a meeting with journalists that by the end of October 2009, a government decree on financing the project activities of Rusnano in 2009-2015 will be approved. He added that previously such budgets were provided only within the framework of federal targeted programs.
Summing up the results of the work of two years, the head of Rusnano said that since the second quarter of this year, the state corporation has reached the design capacity of 15 projects per month. From April 1, 2008 to September 11, 2009, Rusnano received 1205 requests for funding. 446 of them were rejected, another 504 are under preliminary consideration, 219 have passed internal scientific, technical and investment expertise and are being approved by the Scientific and Technical Council and the Investment Policy committee. 36 projects approved by the Supervisory Board of Rusnano have reached the launch stage.
Revenue from these projects in 2015 should amount to about 155 billion rubles. The total volume of investments in projects amounted to 93.8 billion rubles. Including the share of Rusnano amounted to 52.4 billion rubles. According to Anatoly Chubais, the pace of work with projects will allow to ensure the volume of production of the Russian nanoindustry in 2015 about 900 billion rubles per year. In particular, Rusnano projects will account for about 311 billion rubles.
Speaking about the plans until 2015, the head of Rusnano noted that in 2008-2009 the total amount of project financing from the corporation will amount to 310 billion rubles. In 2010, in order not to be left without financing, the management of the corporation will resort to bond loans under state guarantees. The total volume of investments attracted through the issue of bonds will amount to about 180 billion rubles. "The plans are drawn up in such a way that from 2015 the financing of projects can be carried out exclusively at the expense of the corporation's own funds, without attracting financial support from the state," Anatoly Chubais said. – In 2015 The government will be free to remain the owner or exit the corporation, this will be called privatization, sorry for the swear word."
"It can be positively characterized that the state corporation has reached the planned level of investments, and really interesting projects are selected for it, the implementation of which is focused not only on direct income, but also on additional effects for the Russian economy as a whole," said Alexey Kurasov, an expert at Finam IC. – It is clear that it is difficult to draw conclusions for several quarters of investment work, but a good start has been taken, despite the return of part of the money to the budget. Most likely, after resolving issues with the time of consideration of projects, the company will show stable dynamics of entering into new projects within the framework of existing plans." He also added that the announced plans look quite realistic. "However, based on the available forecasts, it turns out that by 2015 the Russian nanoindustry will amount to about 1.5% of the world, i.e. there will be no breakthrough," the expert adds.
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