Russian President welcomes Nokia participation in Skolkovo | Business. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has welcomed plans from Finnish mobile giant Nokia to become a founding member of the Russian Skolkovo high-tech research hub. Nokia President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said at a meeting with Medvedev that the company "would be glad to see its representative in the governing bodies of the project. " "The company would like to build a center at Skolkovo, which will coordinate research projects in software development," he said. Kallasvuo said the center would be an exhibition of joint achievements by Nokia and leading Russian universities, as well as an opportunity to display technology that the company will develop with its partners. "These are very good plans, I will be glad if they come to life," Medvedev said. "We will most certainly be glad to see you among the formal cofounders and governing bodies.
" "Nokia is big tax contributor to the Russian budget. GORKI, June 3 (RIA Novosti) Medvedev Hails Siemens Plans for Russia High-Tech Hub. Siemens, OAO Russian Railways to Sign $2.8 Billion Regional Trains Deal. Siemens AG, the German maker of the ICE high-speed train, is poised to clinch a 2.2 billion-euro ($2.8 billion) order from Russia for 240 regional trains, as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin works to upgrade infrastucture. The Munich-based company will sign a memorandum of understanding on July 15 with OAO Russian Railways for delivery of the trains in the next decade, Siemens spokesman Marc Langendorf said. The company will sign the accord during a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Russia and China.
Russia’s government in 2008 approved a railway development program allowing the Russian railway company to invest about 380 billion euros by 2030 to modernize rolling stock and the track network, the world’s second-largest. The trains will be a version of Siemens’s Desiro regional model already sold to Hungary’s state railway and London’s Heathrow Express service. Nokia Siemens Networks, Skolkovo Foundation confirm innovation plans. "Nokia Siemens Networks’ Smart Lab initiative is ideally aligned with the vision of the Skolkovo foundation,” said Viktor Vekselberg, head of the Skolkovo Foundation. “The lab will play a crucial role in offering guidance and assistance to start-up companies, helping them streamline and focus their R&D activities.
It will help us create a healthy, sustainable technological ecosystem that we have envisioned. " “We are committed to developing future proof technologies in Russia,” added Kristina Tikhonova, head of Nokia Siemens Networks, Russia. “In particular, we see immense potential in areas such as cloud computing, machine-to-machine (M2M), and applications for smart devices, and telco and web 2.0 convergence. We are building necessary systems that will support growth in these areas, and the new Smart Lab in Skolkovo will become one of the key components of this ecosystem.”
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