Partnership between KIPT and Park of Nuclear Technologies (Kazakhstan)
The establishment of sustainable commercial links is an important element in the success of every company. This is particularly
important when companies promote scientific, innovation projects. The opportunities offered by the CNCP Programme in the
countries of the former Soviet Union are unique in this respect. Thanks to work undertaken in the framework of CNCP, nuclear
centres have developed new links and have found new opportunities for creating and promoting innovation-based products.
One example of this is provided by a CNCP project to establish a joint company producing radiation control devices involving
the Park of Nuclear Technologies (PNT, Kazakhstan) and the National Scientific Centre «Kharkov Institute of Physics and
Technology» (KIPT, Ukraine).
Today, PNT is a functioning structure with a mission to promote the commercialisation of scientific inventions. The most
important of its aims is to attract new projects and scientifi c inventions in nuclear and radiation technologies, alternative
and renewable sources of energy, and also projects involving the nanotechnology and new materials needed for the realization of
such projects. For its part, KIPT is the largest scientific centre in Ukraine with responsibilities relating to developing nuclear
and radiation-based technologies and introducing technical innovations to nuclear power stations and other structures within the
nuclear complex.
Synergy between the interests of the two centres and regular opportunities for exchanges of opinion provided for by CNCP
Programme activities paved the way for discussion of possible joint projects. At the CNCP-NIS annual conference in Batumi, KIPT
Deputy General Director Vladimir Chizhov and PNT President Abzal Kusainov signed a memorandum on future collaboration on the
commercial development of scientific inventions. This found practical expression in the form of a project to initiate production
of radiation devices based on cadmium-zinc-telluride detectors (so-called CZT detectors).
Currently the plan is to establish a joint Kazakh-Ukrainian company for the production of radiation control devices, with the
participation of three parties: PNT (Kazakhstan), KIPT (Ukraine) and Positron GmbH (Ukraine).
Sergey Pugach,
Head, KIPT Commercialisation Unit, CNCP Coordinator, KIPT
Asan Akaev,
Manager of CNCP Project, PNT
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