Tomsk Oblast retained fourth place and the status of a “strong innovator” in the new ranking of innovative regions of Russia. The Association of Innovative Regions of Russia rating was presented at the Gaidar Forum in Moscow.

The Coordinating Council for the support of investment activities and the provision of state guarantees decided to provide subsidies for the investment project OAO Company Eskimos.

OOO "Mezheninovskaya ptitsefabrika" (Poultry Farm) invested about 1 billion rubles in a new project - a plant for processing rapeseed; it’s expected that the payback period is will be 5-7 years, the company's general director Fyodor Khaletsky said.

The Tomsk Electrotechnical Plant has completed the implementation of a large-scale technical re-equipment project - 11 units of modern high-tech equipment have been installed in the tool section.

The second multiindustrial fair "Vietnam Expo-Sibir" will take place on 21-23 September, 2018 in Novosibirsk.

XV China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair will take place on 10-13 October, 2018 (Guangzhou, the People’s Republic of China). 

October 3-4, 2017 in Tokyo will be held the V meeting of Russian-Japanese Business Dialogue (Japan) on affairs of the development of small and medium business.

In September, 2017 Tomsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry organize a business trip with Tomsk enterprises for participating in Summit for the development of Russian-Iranian cooperation on September 20-22, 2017 in Mashhad (Iran).