The Tyumen region is successfully engaged in the development of the real sector of the economy and now, in addition to this, relies on the creation of innovative and high-tech sectors.
"We see that world economies are growing due to the introduction of IT-technologies. This is evidenced by the statistics. We are just in the very beginning of our way," said the Governor, opening a work meeting dedicated to the development of the information technology industry in the Tyumen region.
Several areas have been highlighted in the course of communication and negotiations with IT companies in order to make the region interesting for them. Vladimir Yakushev has identified five priority tasks that create complex conditions for the development of the IT economy. Firstly, this is property support through the creation of accessible and affordable offices. We already have positive experience: the operation of E-Soft, the first resident of the Tyumen IT incubator. It employs 100 programmers. By the end of this year, their number will increase by another 50. Now buildings are being selected for opening new IT incubators.
Secondly, it is the staffing, the presence of a large number of free personnel with higher education or specialized training. Two universities, Tyumen Industrial University and classical Tyumen State University, have training program for specialists in the Tyumen region. According to Valery Falkov, the rector of TSU, students of the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science start working in the third year. Today there are more offers from companies than students. Enrollment grows every year, and so does competition. This year over two thousand applications have already been received. On average, eight people compete for one place. The University works closely with existing large IT companies to improve the competence of both students and professionals, as the technology in this field is constantly updated and quickly becomes obsolete.
To improve competence of specialists, an agreement with Israel's largest IT Institute HACKER U was reached on opening a training center in Tyumen. This company has a worldwide reputation, trained more than 70 thousand people and developed 246 offline and online courses and training modules. The establishment of a training center in Tyumen is the first experience of HACKER U in Russian regions.
New, free programming school was established to increase the number of people with programming skills for the tasks of those companies that are coming to the Tyumen region. On July 20, the first group has started studying. It is planned to train up to 200 people annually.
At the meeting the heads of IT companies opening their offices in Tyumen said that they were looking forward to that project, which would allow them to get the staff that meet their needs, and, therefore, to develop dynamically.
The head of Department of Industry and Entrepreneurship of the regional Department of Investment Policy and State Support of Entrepreneurship, Anton Mashukov, noted that they are planning to create a single open data bank of IT specialists – graduates of Tyumen and other region schools – that are ready to work in the region.
For financial support, the IT industry has already made significant steps in attracting companies to the Tyumen region. There are grants provided as per the government program, the new system of innovative loans 3*3 (up to 3 million rubles under 3% per annum for 3 years) and regional tax relief: a reduced rate of income tax (in the part payable to the regional budget); a business-angels club in Tyumen Technopark is established, and a venture Fund in the person of JSC Agency for Infrastructure Development for the financing of projects is formed. The region assists the IT companies in approaching large customers and sales promotion.
Source: Press Office of the Governor of the Tyumen region