... industry and developing new sectors. Along with the stress on agriculture and projects to provide livelihoods and raise incomes in urban and rural districts, China’s key priorities included developing advanced technologies and promoting technical innovations. Over the next two years, the Chinese government
allocated
4 trillion yuan (about $570 billion) to priority areas of economic development.
In September 2009, responding to the new economic environment and international competition, Premier ...
... and timeframe for the non-compete agreements, and subsequently, Mukesh had a chance to announce openly his intentions to embark on a qualitatively new approach to the telecommunication business.
Vladimir Korovkin:
Digital Economy is the Economy of Innovations, not Inventions
It took Mukesh Ambani about six years to create a new company named Jio (Hindi for “live”). It was officially launched in September 2016. Back then, its telecommunication rivals realised that their already difficult situation ...
Interview with Vladimir Korovkin, Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
Which country sets the rules and standards for the digital economy today? Should Russia gear its technological development towards China? Why is it important for Russia to radically revise ...
... average income. The population’s living standards have grown, reducing the country’s main competitive advantage - cheap labour - to naught. As a result, the only solution is to compete with developed economies and with their qualified personnel and innovations. To do so, the country needs a technological breakthrough. Artificial intelligence could play just such a part.
The Chinese authorities hope artificial intelligence will help transform their economic growth model and expand geopolitical influence,...
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 that foreign investments were disappearing...
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 Menshenin.
Svetlana Sergeyevna, recently Transkor-K completed a joint project...
... creative people to create something new. If we look at the big breakthroughs – for example, the emergence of agriculture, 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 to survive on a smaller area of land. Other innovations also emerge: they are prompted by economic demands. If everything ...
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 adapts to the old, instead...
... smartphones. I asked him what his job there was, and he answered “I go there several times a year and solve problems. They have their own scientific institute, and train specialists who are able to solve standard problems and even develop some innovations. However, when it comes to the next stage of increasing computer resolution, they are facing a physical problem that they cannot solve and they summon me. I come, solve the problem and leave.”
Another strong feature of the Russian economy ...
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 Russian fundamental research in the aviation and space technology, nuclear energy, etc. sectors with Korean technologies in robototechnics, electronics, car manufacturing...
