THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INNOVATION CLUSTERS, BRINGING TOGETHER SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

Аннотация

In 2004, Kazakhstan launched the project "Diversification of Kazakhstan's economy through the development
of clusters in the non-extractive sectors of the economy", which will lead to an increase in productivity, competitiveness
and sustainable economic development of individual regions and the country as a whole. Clusters serve as
points of growth of the domestic market and contribute to the increase in the international competitiveness of goods.
The main segments of the food industry are: the production of beverages, flour and cereal products, vegetable
and animal oils and fats, meat and meat products, dairy products, fruit and vegetable processing. Cluster integration
processes are successfully starting to work in them all over the world.
In the Republic of Kazakhstan, in particular in the food industry, there are certain prerequisites for the formation
of similar clusters, which in their scale and potential would be able to significantly exceed Russian and even
foreign in the future.
Integration relations in the food industry are aimed at effective use of the potential of enterprises, including
information, production, scientific, trade, financial component, aimed at increasing the overall economic effect of the
successful development of a particular branch of the food industry.
The use of resource-saving technologies has one important advantage - the cost of the manufactured product, as
well as transport and operating costs are reduced. In addition, the savings accumulated funds can be used for the
development of an activity.