The Strategic Initiatives Agency (SAI), together with the STI Platform and the RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, is conducting a competition for the best technological decisions and practices of BRICS countries in various areas of BRICS Solutions Awards.

The International Industrial Exhibition Innoprom-2024 in Catherineburg provided information on the performance of regional industrial development funds. For example, the Regional Development Fund for the Yaroslava Region has become one of the nine regional industrial development funds throughout Russia, which have ensured the implementation of the annual budget by 100 per cent.

July 9th, Moscow. - The fifth anniversary festival of the Russian creative week was completed. More than 500 speakers addressed the Forum ' s business programme at the Lomonos cluster. More than 5.5 thousand people attended the creative week.

The SME Corporation provided 60 billion roubles to partner banks in the form of " zone-based " sponsorships for small and medium-sized businesses in the third quarter of 2024. This would allow entrepreneurs to attract at least 120 billion credit roubles, and the Director-General of the ICP Corporation, Alexander Isaevich, reported.

Within the framework of the Week of Social Entrepreneurship, the Russian General Media Project of the Ministry of Economic Development was implemented. The regional publications, My Business, have spoken about social entrepreneurs from other regions, disseminating their goods and services. Around 400 posts with a special heshtet... ..the week-to-the-census have gained more than 60,000 views.

The Russian Ministry of Labour conducts all Russian ECOs of employers to determine the needs of organizations and individual entrepreneurs in the professional workforce. The results will be applied to ensure that they are trained in higher and secondary vocational education in relevant fields.

" Today, more entrepreneurs realize that business is not only profit: business social responsibility is growing. The results of our study confirm this trend -- 70 per cent of entrepreneurs are confident that business should be involved in solving social problems. However, the vast majority of entrepreneurs have done something useful in the past two years: 33 per cent have cooperated with volunteer and charitable organizations, 25 per cent have provided targeted assistance to those in need, and 23 per cent have supported children ' s homes, hospitals and educational institutions, " noted the Deputy Minister for Economic Development of Russia, Tatiana Ilumnikov.

Nearly 4.5 billion roubles were purchases from self-employed persons, which were held by the largest companies with the State during the first half of 2024. Compared to the same period last year, the increase in procurement was 22 per cent. The SME Corporation is responsible for enforcing the mandatory government 25 per cent procurement quota.