More than 70% of industrial innovations in Tatarstan are provided by enterprises of the petrochemical complex. The Republic has created a powerful research potential and a base for training of engineering and technical personnel in the largest research institutes, universities, and colleges:
- Tatarstan Academy of Sciences;
- Alabuga Polytech;
- Almetyevsk State Technological University – Higher School of Petroleum;
- Kazan Federal University;
- Kazan National Research Technological University;
- Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N. Tupolev;
- Kazan State Power Engineering University;
- Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering;
- Nizhnekamsk Chemical Technological Institute;
- Innopolis University;
- Volga Scientific Research Institute of Hydrocarbon Raw Materials;
- A.E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry;
- TatNIPIneft R&D Institute;
- Soyuzkhimpromproect Design Institute and others.