The Ministry of Economy has summed up the outcomes of the “Import Substitution” competitors, the place the title of “Producer of the Year” based mostly on the outcomes of actions for 2025 was awarded to the BNTU “Polytechnic” Science and Technology Park. The awards ceremony for the winners and laureates will happen on March 20, 2026, at the capital’s Dipservice Hall. For our half, we spoke with the expertise park’s innovation entrepreneurship help supervisor, Maxim Zhurkevich, to search out out which product introduced the expertise park such a excessive award and what lies behind the standing of an “exemplary” producer.
Within the framework of the “Import Substitution” competitors, which was organized by the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus, business organizations throughout the nation had been evaluated. As Maxim Vasilyevich famous, in the “Producer of the Year” class, specialists checked out dynamics: the progress in manufacturing volumes of import-substituting merchandise and the enhance of their share in the enterprise’s total portfolio.
— The winners and laureates of the competitors had been decided by an skilled fee. The circumstances for participation additionally included the absence of losses, arrears in taxes and wages, in addition to a “clean” enterprise popularity of the director, — specified the consultant of the expertise park.
— What particular product or undertaking allowed you to win in the “Producer of the Year” class?
— The most important share in making certain the progress indicator of the manufacturing quantity of import-substituting merchandise for Polytechnic was made up of the knee joint endoprosthesis with an implantation system, in addition to medical merchandise for traumatology and orthopedics.
The expertise park’s merchandise are equipped to home healthcare establishments, changing imported analogues and permitting Belarusian docs to offer high-tech care to sufferers in a well timed method.
The journey from the engineering concept of import-substituting merchandise to the working room took greater than ten years. According to Maxim Vasilyevich, the creation of such a fancy product vary became attainable solely because of systematic monetary help from the state and the innovation fund of the Minsk City Executive Committee. However, the most important difficulties awaited the builders not in the workshops.
— There had been additionally difficulties on the path to market entry: prolonged registration procedures for brand spanking new medical gadgets, sturdy competitors from international suppliers for the Belarusian market, — shared Maxim Zhurkevich.
Despite all the obstacles, 2025 became a breakthrough year for the enterprise. The expertise park produced import-substituting merchandise value 5.76 million US {dollars}. This determine is greater than double the end result of 2024 (2.79 million {dollars}). Such a big leap, as defined at the enterprise, didn’t occur by probability. It was a direct consequence of the implementation of the instruction from the Head of State and the Government to cut back the queues of sufferers in want of main joint endoprosthetics.
The secret of monetary stability and self-discipline in the present financial circumstances at the enterprise is defined as follows:
— The most important worth for an modern enterprise is the group, its workers. Thanks to the arduous work and involvement of every worker of Polytechnic, the most advanced duties are solved. Every worker is a vital cog in a big mechanism that works to realize outcomes. This end result can not all the time be seen rapidly, typically will probably be felt after years. But each worker understands that the process of the enterprise is just not solely to make a revenue, but in addition to take part in fixing nationwide duties, to contribute to constructing a socially oriented financial system.
— What would you advise different business organizations in Belarus which are simply planning to submit functions for the competitors subsequent year?
— We can advise different enterprises and organizations to not be afraid to take part in such competitions; it’s not solely a recognition of achievements but in addition good promoting. And to realize glorious outcomes and victories, you will need to focus on one factor — high quality.
The plans for 2026 embody not solely sustaining the achieved positions but in addition conquering new frontiers. The expertise park understands that it’s not straightforward to keep up the earlier progress charges, so that they intend to concentrate on rising the share of exports and creating international markets. Participation in competitions will proceed – it is each about picture and further motivation for the group.
The victory of the BNTU “Polytechnic” Science and Technology Park in the “Import Substitution” competitors is not only a proper recognition of the deserves of a single enterprise, however a transparent instance of how systematic state help, long-term scientific developments, and a concentrate on the actual wants of the nation make it attainable to realize vital outcomes. By specializing in the most important factor – product high quality and fixing the nationwide process of import substitution in drugs – the expertise park not solely elevated manufacturing volumes but in addition confirmed {that a} Belarusian producer is succesful of efficiently competing with international suppliers, contributing to nationwide safety and social well-being.