Business Fellowships
Business fellowships are organised for Parliament members
for in-depth introduction to a particular industry.
The topics of the study programme are identified based
on an assessment of Members’ needs. The national
scheme designs a study programme involving national
and transnational companies operating in Armenia, relevant
experts and business associations. The fellowships are
meant to serve as a catalyst for initiating debate on
sound economic policies.
Fellowship to a IT sector
Based
on the request of Mr Sahavarsh Kocharyan – an
MP from opposition we have held a company attachment
with HPLA LLC and SYNOPSYS companies, the largest
in Armenia employing more then 400 people in total.
During the attachment many interesting information
has been gathered by MP and by us, especially in the
filed of regulating the IT sector, which is very fast
growing in Armenia. Unfortunately most of the information
was confidential, therefore I can not state much about
it, but in overall, we have come up with an initiative
from the company to plan a business attachment for
several MPs, to give them a clue on what is going
on in IT sector in Armenia and make MPs aware of the
successes they have and the obstacles existing in
overall sector and in tax code in particular, connected
with the export and VAT losses. A for the moment Mr.
Kocharian has expressed the readiness to come up with
the legislative initiative in the Parliament.
