Search: Innovations (15 materials)

 

Prospects for the EU-Russia Innovation Cooperation: the Russian-Finnish Experience

... enough. The motivation for innovation should emerge from bottom-up: you need to have grass-root players - innovative entrepreneurs who are interested in promoting innovation not as a sole goal but as part of their broader agenda. Another point is that innovations don’t appear when somebody just wants them, there should be a need for innovation. You have to have a force that is making companies to change their behavior. Innovations usually start not when there is an opportunity, rather when there ...

25.07.2013

Andrey Kortunov at Innovation Conference

On July 4th, 2013 RIAC Director General Andrei Kortunov spoke at the opening of the inter-regional research-to-practice conference “Preparation and Creation of a Regional Innovation Cluster.” He focused on developing international ties of Russian innovative regions and universities, adopting foreign practices in creation of regional innovation clusters and optimizing mechanisms of international scientific, technological and innovation cooperation. The conference was attended by representatives of...

05.07.2013

Economic Relations between Russia and the EU: In Search of a Common Vision

... innovation strategy is crucial for reinforcing the pragmatic tendency of European economic policy. Moreover, it offers opportunities to lower the level of politicization in Russia-EU relations on a significant number of issues, including that of energy. Innovations are a potential basis for changing the investment climate and developing economic interaction at a basic level. Current investments are highly disproportionate in character : with $240 billion of accumulated investments, the “tax heavens” ...

24.05.2013

Russian Science – One That’s Been Canned is Worth Two That Haven’t

... remaining chances for an innovation breakthrough? With respect to our chances: hope is the last thing to die, but for me to live in the hope that somehow everything will straighten out would be personally shameful. The same would be if I simply called for innovations without having resources or knowledge. The main rule for those in charge of modernization of this country should be the words of Seneca – “If a man does not know the port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him”.That ...

25.04.2013

Research and innovation in the Arctic

... have to, relying on rich historical traditions and a thick layer of industrial development created over the decades of the twentieth century, radically modernize the Arctic research infrastructure, creatively make use of best practices, technologies, innovations of other polar countries, and subject international scientific cooperation to the development priorities of its Arctic zone.

24.08.2012
 

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