Investments are all types of property (except goods intended for personal consumption), including financial leasing items from the moment of conclusion of the lease agreement, as well as rights to them invested by the investor in the authorized capital of a legal entity or an increase in fixed assets used for business activities, as well as for the implementation of a public-private partnership project, including a concession project.

Investments are heterogeneous, and there are a huge number of types of investments, and each of them has unique characteristics. The variety of criteria that can be used to describe investments leads to the existence of a large number of classifications.

If we consider as a criterion for the classification of entities that invest funds, we can distinguish:

domestic investment - investment is made by individuals and legal entities (citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan).

foreign investment - here funds are invested by foreign citizens and companies

Working with investors is multi-faceted, involving almost all state bodies at the Central level, akimats in the regions, development institutions, various organizations and business circles in Kazakhstan.

The main goal of investment activity is to increase quantitative and qualitative indicators. The main indicator of the effectiveness of an investment project is the ratio of profit to costs, or the profitability of the project.

Main tasks Of the Department of entrepreneurship and industry of the Akmola region investment sphere:

1) creating favorable conditions for the development of priority sectors of the economy;

2) providing conditions for the development of new competitive industries;

3) creation of favorable conditions for modernization (technical re-equipment), financial and economic recovery, improve and (or) recovery of investment attractiveness of production facilities with the aim of increasing productivity, lengthening the production chain and market expansion, as well as create and restore production capacity, saving jobs, start reanimiruyet productions;

4) support of innovative activities, effective implementation of innovations and development of high-tech industries;

5) increasing the investment attractiveness and export potential of subjects of industrial and innovative activity;

6) assistance to subjects of industrial and innovative activity in commercialization of technologies, results of scientific and (or) scientific and technical activities;

7) assistance to subjects of industrial and innovative activity in the development of export potential;

8) development of the research base in priority sectors of the economy and its integration with the production process;

9) assistance to subjects of industrial and innovative activities in international cooperation in the field of industrial and innovative activities, including cooperation in the field of training highly qualified personnel for industrial and innovative activities;

10) providing assistance to subjects of industrial and innovative activity in increasing labor productivity and developing territorial clusters.