Nanotechnologies news from RussiaNew home for science in Russia
Russia is launching its answer to Silicon Valley – a large scientific centre that will pioneer the country's research and innovation. The high-tech town for young and creative scientists and businesspeople will be built from scratch near Moscow. It will lead research in areas considered critical for Russia's modernization.
Russia is going to marry science and business, and their new home will be in Skolkovo. The name of the place does not reveal much now, but what Skolkovo already has is a top level business school, dubbed by some as “the Russian Harvard.” But in the next couple of years it will also host five different scientific communities.
President Medevev has announced during a speech to young scientists that Russia is to build its equivalent of Silicon Valley in the village of Skolkovo near Moscow.
The location in the Moscow region already has a top-level business school which was founded by leading Russian companies. In his speech, Medvedev said that the project is intended for turning the city into a hub for the development and commercialization of new technologies: «This will be an all new city, where five hi-tech centers of excellence will be developed. First of all this will be in energy, IT, telecommunications, biomedicine and nuclear technologies. Of course, we are not limited to these.»
Earlier, the Siberian region of Tomsk announced that it was preparing its own project which would create a second Russian center for research and scientific development.
The project, titled Innovation, Science, Education, is already being examined by a working group. There are already more than 200 innovation companies working in the region with yearly growth in production of more than 30% which is second behind the Oil-gas sector.
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