Rustam Minnikhanov takes part in session of the Presidential council on economic modernization and innovative development of Russia

On February 17, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov, who is on a working trip to Novocheboksarsk, took part in a session of the Presidential council on economic modernization and innovative development of Russia chaired by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

The session discussed issues related to implementation of the state policy in the sphere of intellectual property.

“When we talk about the economy, which is based on knowledge, inventions, discoveries, we assumed that there is adequate legal protection for this,” Dmitry Medvedev said, opening the meeting. This protection is needed to properly include results of the intellectual activity into the economic cycle, so that they could generate profits, be the subject of legal relations, including the objects of pledge, contribute to increasing the capitalization of businesses involved in every aspect of the economic activity, " he continued.

Before the meeting Dmitry Medvedev and his party had visited the plant for the production of solar electric panels in Novocheboksarsk – the project of the Hevel company, one of the main investors in solar power projects in Russia.