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The “Economic Multiplier” series. Part 4. A vehicle assembled locally can enrich foreign suppliers—or help build domestic industry. How is a full-cycle cluster taking shape around Kostanay’s car plants? From iron casting and reduction gears to domestically produced body sheet, software and university-based engineering training.
The “Economic Multiplier” series. Part 5. Rapid industrial growth inevitably runs into shortages of power and logistics capacity. How are the Tobyl dry port, 1.2 GW of new wind generation and the revival of Arkalyk as a transport hub ceasing to be just construction projects and becoming direct factors of regional economic expansion?
The “Economic Multiplier” series. Part 6. A factory can be built in two years—but who will run it? We examine the concept of “economic gravity”: why the Astana residential district, international university programmes, hotels and healthcare are not simply social expenditure, but key investments in retaining talent and closing the region’s development cycle.
Material No. 6 in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Material No. 7, the final material in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Japan is launching a five-year program to develop a national multimodal AI model for robots and autonomous manufacturing: 378.3 billion yen in the first year, annual stage-gate audits, and the transfer of trained weights to the entire ecosystem. We break down the program based on primary sources — and what Kazakhstan should take note of.
The first material opens the TALAP series and sets the global context: strategic foresight is becoming part of contemporary management practice.
The second material shows how TALAP is turning the global practice of strategic foresight into its own tool for Kazakhstan.
The third material documents a practical test of the approach against the economic agenda of Q1 2026.
