Rustam Minnikhanov: Ireland is an innovative country and this way is very interesting for us

On June 30, at his meeting with Minister of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources of Ireland Alex White in Dublin, Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov said that meetings during this visit to Ireland would be useful for both countries. Minnikhanov thanked leadership of Ireland and Irish Embassy in Russia for organization of the visit and interesting programme.

“Ireland is a rapidly developing country. Its experience in the sphere of innovations, creation and development of startups is interesting for us,” Minnikhanov continued. He added that experts from Tatarstan have been studying experience of Ireland for the last 30 years when significant changes were happening there. Ireland has become innovative and this way is very interesting for us, Minnikhanov said.

Rustam Minnikhanov presented economic and innovative potential of the region focusing on oil production and refining, IT industry, bio- and nano- technologies. He also mentioned that the center of information technologies of Russia, - Innopolis innovative city will be created in the republic.
Minnikhanov invited Mr White to the republic.

Alex White told about the Agency for entrepreneurship development and support rendered by the Irish Government. He noted that in his opinion two factors are important for the development of innovations, - creation and support of innovative infrastructure and maximal coverage on the Internet.

Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Information and Communications Roman Shaikhutdinov told about development of broadband Internet, rendering of electronic state services, and the electronic document management system.