Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) - The Ministry of Innovative Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan organized a video conference of residents of the Skolkovo Innovation Center in Moscow with representatives of the Ministry of Housing and Public Utilities and the Ministry of Innovative Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

It was attended by Deputy Vice President for Regional Development and Cooperation with the CIS Alexander Okunev, Head of the Center for Commercialization of Innovation of the CIS Fund for the Development of Innovation Entrepreneurship of the RF CCI Olga Sereda, Coordinator of the Center for Commercialization of Innovation of the CIS Olga Tereshina, General Director of Innovation. Technologies. Production”, the Zinoferr project Alexander Rybakov, general director of SIVOKS LLC Vadim Petrovichev.

The conference presented and discussed the project of water supply, water treatment and water purification “Sivoks” (LLC “Sivoks”) and the project of anticorrosion coating “Zinoferr” (LLC “Innovations. Technologies. Production”).

Under the Sivoks project, the interest of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services in the work of Sivoks on the construction and modernization of water supply and sanitation facilities was studied. The parties also identified a list of enterprises for the construction and modernization of water supply and sanitation facilities.

As a result of the conference, it was agreed to send a questionnaire to water treatment and water supply organizations, to determine their interest in the construction and modernization of water supply and sanitation facilities. The interest of the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services in the application of the Zinoferr technology at the ZhKO RU facilities was also studied.

Following the meeting, an agreement was reached on giving the Scientific and Practical Center for the Implementation of Innovation Developments under the Ministry of Innovation Development of the Republic of Uzbekistan the status of a center for the commercialization of innovation developments in the CIS. This will allow the center to expand support for innovators of their developments with access to the market. Giving such a status to the center will cover not only the domestic market of Uzbekistan, but will also be able to transfer the product to the CIS market. So, the center will be a sales tool for local developments.