... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
Science and technology as part of economic development
Cooperation between Russia and the Republic of Korea in the field of science and technology is a key aspect of the overall relationship between the two nations. Both nations have placed a strong emphasis on this area of cooperation in light of the possibilities to synergize ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
