Research Policy

In this section, incrEAST offers information on national research policies, structures, programmes and organisations in Kyrgyzstan.

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Context of research policy:

Uniform coordination of a science is not present for today; the new bill «About a science and innovative activity» was brought to the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic in the second quarter of 2008, but till now it was not accepted by Jogorky Kenesh (Parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic. There were showed definite purposes, problems and priorities of the State Scientifically - Innovative Policy.

The cornerstone of Scientific - Technical Policy, is the state-order for science, on the basis of which there are priorities defined by the state.

Directions for the development of fundamental science are being defined by the scientific community; they are proceeded from the tendencies in the development of world science and techniques, on the basis of scientific-, material- and technical potentials. The main directions of the surveys in the fundamental sciences are defined by the NAS KR and MSE, integrating from the priorities of the economic development, society and the receivement of new results.

Research policy: objectives and priorities
The purpose of the research policy is the transformation of the researched resources, to channel into the economy and renovation of Kyrgyzstan, by reforming and holding effective state research policies, adequate to the economic position and its priorities and the development of the Kyrgyz Republic in the nearest future.

Policy making and coordination

A National Plan for science and its development was composed, in which was underlined, that:

• Science in Kyrgyzstan is observed as one of the sources of economic growth, and its potentials as indicators of competitiveness of the country on the world market;
• Scientific and technical progress and their effective and purposeful usage and their achievements, are the necessary conditions for a firm human development in the XXI century;
• Nevertheless, of all the encountered difficulties of the transformation period, Kyrgyzstan, to some point, has kept its scientific and technical potentials, by the ongoing operation of scientific schools, achievements in the areas of medicine and agrarian science, the creation and incorporation of new techniques and technologies in the building and construction science (sector), in the investigations of mineral recourses, in the ecology  - and natural disciplines, as also in the economics - and social sciences:

Altogether, however, there are also problems, defeats and not used possibilities, which are:

• Lack of functioning ties between ministries, administrative institutions, enterprises, and scientific institutions of the republic;
• Non- specified, low expectations, of and towards elaborations, brought on by inculcation; 
• Lack of high technological and flexible, small enterprises, carrying scientific products, which are easy to rebuild for, and into new types of products, in connection with the conjuncture of the market;
• Not enough state-recourse supplements of the scientific and technical sphere;
• Low level of budgetary financing and low part of out-of-budget sources of finance;
• Lack of financing of science from private sectors.
• Science is coordinated by the National Commission of Science, under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic.

National Research Programs

The NAS of the Kyrgyz Republic has developed a complex program, to activate the researches and popularization of the history of Kyrgyz Statehood, for the duration of the years of 2006-2010.

Additionally, a State Program for the development of science and innovative activities in the Kyrgyz Republic was developed, being set to be implemented during the period of 2006-2015.

The purpose of those programs is the creation of an innovative economics, on the basis of native and foreign scientific, technical and intellectual potentials.  Unfortunately, however, the realization of the given programs need financial recourses. Budgetary assignation of the last years, show permanent positions of the budget policy in financing science, i.e., that there is not yet priority given to any of the given items.

Picture 1. Assignation for the R&D from the budget of the State of KR, in % GPD

The national innovative system in the Kyrgyz Republic (on the basis of the foreign experience), intends its realization in several periods:

1-period - creation of preliminary conditions for the forced transition for innovative ways of development (2006-2008)

• Activation of innovative potentials in the environments of entrepreneurships;
• Preparation of the conceptual, institutional, and legal bases, to introduce a modern system of innovative and mutual actions, between the state and scientific and technical sections and the industry;
• Organization of constant monitoring, using as basis expertise on the regulation of/on business activities, innovative, scientific and technical activities, and practice of the usage of the legislative norms, for its corresponded building of international standards;
• Repair of the supporting structure on the main directions in technology, on the basis of organizational partnerships of state and industry.

2-period - formation of the net mutual actions (2007-2010)

• Organization of the constant process in clearing up and monitoring the factors and barriers, which are interfering on innovative activities;
• Introduction into practice of the elaborated institutional instruments;
• Terminal introduction, and putting into action, the schemes of the state assistance towards the processes of diffusions and transfers of technologies;
• Clear up the existing nest and clusters.

3 period - clusterization of an innovative system (2009-2015):

• Transfer to the state scientific-technical and innovative policy from the support of separate organizations, leading research and elaborations, to the support of development in the relation to the clusters, connected organizations, holding research, elaborations and inculcations.

Necessary recourses for realization of the Program will demand the means of around 2.6 - 3.0% of GPD.

The Program foresees the necessity of maximal involvement of the private sector, venture capitals, native and foreign capital.

We took into consideration the situation of the developed countries, while we were defining the given meanings and the extraction of the recourses for Scientific Research in KR, where financing of the scientific activity from 0.4 - 2.6% should supply only research work, and only 2.6% from GPD shall be brought into the innovative way of the economy, thus can be reached:

• Increase of the direct foreign investigations into innovative- and research-activities
• Optimization of the financing system of the applied researches of KR
• Creation of an effective, innovative infrastructure, including of a united informative basis of innovative activities in the republic.
• Formation of a system of venture finance, with the participation as a native, for foreign capital increase.
• Increase of the level of innovative management
• Improvement of the legislative basis, in connection with the holding of innovative developments policies.
  

Source: NLKR
Last up-date: 18 October 2010