Search: Russia,Innovations (10 materials)

Digital Economy is the Economy of Innovations, not Inventions

... of Digital and Innovations Research at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Vladimir Korovkin. What should countries base their competitive edge on to become a leader in the technological race? Vassily Kashin: What Opportunities are Opening up for Russia against the Backdrop of the Tech War between the U.S. and China? The digital economy is an economy of innovations, not inventions. This is a very important distinction. An invention is anything that is radically new from a technological point of view. An innovation is something that has been accepted by the market. An innovation can have very little value ...

19.03.2020

Alexander Galitsky: It's a Matter of Trust

Interview with Founder of Almaz Capital Partners Founder of Almaz Capital Partners venture capital firm Alexander Galitsky answered our questions on the demise of the Internet and the challenges facing Russian technology companies. The interview was prepared for publication by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC correspondent Yaroslav Menshenin. Alexander, after the geopolitical events of 2014, Dauria Aerospace founder Mikhail Kokorich complained ...

27.05.2015

Svetlana Kamaeva: “Russian Technologies for Export”

In an interview with RIAC, Transkor-K Research and Development Center CEO Svetlana Kamaeva shared her insights on the activities of this innovative company, on the triumphs of Russian technology, on what is missing in the interactions between business and the state, and on the need to hold an Innovation Olympics. The interview was prepared for publication by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC correspondent Yaroslav ...

15.04.2015

Yaroslav Kuzminov: “University Is a Competitive Network Environment”

... however, to confuse patriotism with idiocy. Is it likely in your view that the difficulties in the global world will help the Russian economy to move onto an innovative track? Innovation is the inner demand of creative people to create something new. If ... ... when people started to cultivate the land rather than gather its fruits, or to breed animals rather than hunt them – the innovations were linked to a food crisis: innovations emerged as a result of one natural cataclysm or another, which forced people ...

10.03.2015

Irina Dezhina: Beware of Poverty and Affluence

Doctor of Economics Irina Dezhina , Head of Group on Science and Industrial Policy at Skoltech Institute, met with RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and Senior Analyst Yaroslav Menshenin of Skoltech Space Center to talk about Russia’s science policy. Dr. Dezhina, you once said that the experience of reforms to Russian science in the 1990s has shown that even if you begin to build something new, the old does not necessarily disappear. Moreover, a part of the new often ...

20.02.2015

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

... Establishing a joint EU-Russia Innovation Centre both in Russia and in the EU to bring together the innovation-intensive firms of Russia and the European Union; Supporting the internationalization of innovations through the adaptation of existing Western innovations into the Russian market and the internationalization of the Russian goods toward the European Union; Turning the innovations conducted in the military sector into civilian use in Russia; Improving intellectual property rights and the investment climate, as one ...

25.07.2013

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

... innovation economy to the forefront. This, in turn, will require solving a number of issues of domestic economy and infrastructure, and the application of new methods for business promotion in Europe. We can cite several causes for the low effectiveness of Russian innovations: insufficiently developed domestic demand for innovations (as Russian business prefers to borrow ready-made foreign technologies); low competition between innovation companies inside Russia; an unbalanced investment environment. In order to ...

24.05.2013

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

... 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 ... ... restructuring of science industries and research institutions And now, this is how ex-President Medvedev (Prime Minister of the Russian Federation since 2012 – ed.) formulated the priorities for the 21st century: development of nuclear energy, development ...

25.04.2013

Research and innovation in the Arctic

... in human history has a change in the social and natural systems in the Arctic occurred so quickly. As a great Arctic power, Russia should give an adequate response to the challenge posed by unprecedented changes. The country will have to, relying on ... ... 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 ...

24.08.2012

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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