Johnson and Johnson, Skolkovo to create venture fund :: AAR Consortium. ST.PETERSBURG, June 17 (Itar-Tass) — Johnson and Johnson international company and its pharmaceutical branch Janssen Pharmaceutica, on the one hand, and the Skolkovo Foundation, on the other, signed a preliminary cooperation agreement at the International Economic Forum here on Friday.
It outlines the main directions of joint work, including in the sphere of venture investment and the creation of a centre of high technologies and continuous medical education. Aside from it, the Skolkovo Foundation, Janssen Pharmaceutica and Chemrar, its Russian partner, signed on Friday a preliminary agreement on the potentialities of co-investment in new Russian companies, which do research in the sphere of pharmaceutics and medical products. Paul Schtoffels, member of the Board of Directors of Janssen Pharmaceutica, said at the signing ceremony that their company was beginning cooperation with the Skolkovo Foundation and a number of Russian companies. Www.unep.org/ourplanet/imgversn/164/french/Elena Merle-Beral.pdf.
Russian "Silicon Valley Skolkovo": Will it work? - Opinions - The Dutch Eye. Can you really rattle with a bag of gold to attrackt multi-billion dollar corporations into investing in a new Russian "Silicon Valley" initiative? Is this really the way to revitalise the poor state of Russian Science? Skolkovo Valley: Why it is needed? From a government point of view - currently Skolkovo is mainly President Medvedev's pet project - there are a number of factors and goals to be achieved by the newly - build from scratch - scientific Skolkovo City. Russia has inherited a rich scientific base from Soviet times, but it has had trouble drawing foreign investment and commercializing homegrown scientific innovations.Diversify the Russian economy by reducing its dependence on oil and gas exports and encouraging the development of hi-tech sectors and research. Curb the brain drain from Russia which took place after the fall of Communism and continues today as conditions for scientists are very meager.
The projected issues and problems for Skolkovo Valley What opponents say. Www.ergo.net/Building-Silicon-Valley-Russia.pdf. 10 Start-up Incubators to Watch. Founded in 2006, TechStars is one of the country's most prestigious incubators. Its four locations in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle, host 10 teams for three months of the year on rotation, funding each team member between $6,000 and $18,000. More than 600 teams applied last year, making TechStars one of the country's most competitive incubators.
TechStars focuses on technology companies with transnational appeal, and requires a 6 percent equity stake in any new companies that are funded. Each program ends with a pitch event with venture capitalists and other investors. Since 2005, Y-Combinator has set the standard for technology incubators. Founded by tech entrepreneur Paul Graham, the Silicon Valley-based paradise for coders with an entrepreneurial streak hosts teams in two rotations from January to March and from June to August of each year. Y-Combinator invests about $18,000 per company for the session, and asks an equity stake that averages about 6 percent.
Le projet. Russia, un déficit en terme d'innovation. Sberbank, nouvel investisseur de Skolkovo. Une nouvelle société a fait partie des résidents du fonds « Skolkovo ». Sberbank a l’intention d’investir 700 à 800 millions de dollars dans la construction du parc technologique et du centre de traitement des donnés dans le centre d’innovations. Il installera ici des structures TIC qui s’occuperont des activités de développement et de recherche, un centre de traitement des donnés et des ressources technologiques des plus grandes entreprises TIC russes et étrangères.
Sberbank prévoit d’installer dans le parc technologique une structure financière qui s’occupera des investissements en capitaux risques. La coopération de Sberbank et du fonds « Skolkovo » est mutuellement avantageuse. Avec Sberbank nous élaborons réellement d’autres formes de la coopération : l’octroi de crédit et la construction des centres de recherches sur le territoire de « Skolkovo ».
Je pense que pour nos partenaires cela sera une coopération avantageuse et intéressante. Dmitry Medvedev’s Davos Keynote: Complete Transcript - Bruce Upbin - Tradigital.
How Medvedev Delivered on Last Year's Promises. VedomostiPresident Medvedev speaking at the St. Petersburg forum June 18, 2010. Many of President Dmitry Medvedev's promises made at last year's St. Petersburg International Economic Forum have been fulfilled as he endeavors to attract investment and modernize the economy. But increasing capital flight shows that the measures — often expressed in tangled legal language — weren't convincing enough. As a result, not everything is looking up. Russia's huge market did attract money and commitments from international players since the previous forum. At the same time, Central Bank data showed that $26.3 billion left the country this year as of May 1, compared with last year's total flight of $38.3 billion.
Medvedev has conceded that the "investment boom" he sought at the forum didn't happen, pointing to graft as the reason. Economists and commentators have named more diverse reasons for the outflow, including the uncertainty ahead of the presidential election next March. U.S.
Part of oil profits should be saved - Medvedev. News headlines June 17, 2011 11:49 ST. PETERSBURG. June 17 (Interfax) - The excessive spending of money as a result of extremely high oil prices is a "risky policy," said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "We must live within our means by saving part of the profits from super high oil prices.
The current excessive use of such 'easy money' as global inflation accelerates is a risky policy," the president told an economic forum in St. Petersburg. Such a policy will not allow interest rates to be reduced or investment activity to be sharply increased, Medvedev said. "One cannot always rely on high oil prices, let alone their continual growth," he said. Kk jv (Our editorial staff can be reached at eng.editors@interfax.ru) /Interfax/ Présidentielle 2012: Medvedev probablement candidat | Russie. Russian "Silicon Valley Skolkovo" project will be coordinate by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg // Russia // News | Neftegaz.RU. Russian business tycoon Viktor Vekselberg will coordinate a project to build a high-tech research and production hub, similar to the Silicon Valley in California, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.
He said last Thursday the Russian "silicon" will be implanted in Skolkovo, just outside Moscow. "I have decided that the Russian part of the coordinating structure to be created will be headed by Viktor Feliksovich Vekselberg," Medvedev said. There has been no comment yet from Vekselberg, Russia's 23rd richest man worth an estimated $1.8 billion. Medvedev said it was important to ensure that not only the state, but also the private sector should take an active part in the project. He directed the government to define Skolkovo's special status, adding that if legislative changes were required for that, they would be made. Silicon Valley, located near San Jose, California, is a term that originally referred to the region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers.
Commits to Sustainable Development of Russian Technology Innovation Agenda Through $1B Multi-Year Investment -> Cisco News. Cisco CEO Chambers Signs MoU with Viktor Vekselberg to Establish Physical Presence in Skolkovo; Announces I-Prize Contest for Russia; Extends Venture Capital Investment by $100M Videos Russian President Medvedev's visit to Cisco in San Jose. Marthin De Beer, SVP Emerging Technologies Group for Cisco, discusses the evolution of the Cisco I-Prize to tap Russian Entrepreneurship. Carlos Dominguez, SVP Office of the Chairman and CEO, Cisco explains how social networking is supporting the transformation of Russia's economy Photos Press Release Russian Version (PDF) SAN JOSE, Calif. and MOSCOW – June 23, 2010 - In a meeting today in San Jose, President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev and Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers discussed a wide-ranging series of collaborative initiatives that will underpin the Russian Federation's technology innovation agenda.
Key Facts Skolkovo Project Cisco I-Prize for Russia Cisco's longstanding commitment to Innovation and Skills Development Executive Quotes. Le projet Skolkovo – note récapitulative | innovatingrussia. Le projet Skolkovo Localisation - Skolkovo est à une vingtaine de kilomètres à l’ouest du centre de Moscou ; un terrain de 370 hectares dont l’Etat est propriétaire y est disponible. - une « business school » est déjà implantée à proximité.
La zone économique spéciale de Zelonograd, dédiée à l’innovation (principalement électronique) n’est pas très loin. Objectifs - construire une véritable ville dédiée à l’innovation : laboratoires de recherche, de structures de commercialisation de technologies nouvelles, d’un centre d’affaires, mais aussi implantation d’entreprises, construction de logements et d’équipements récréatifs ; des représentations de services fédéraux (douane, immigration, propriété intellectuelle,..) seront également implantées. - fixer durablement dans cette ville jusqu’à 30 000 personnes (chercheurs, innovateurs, y compris étrangers) Gouvernance - supervision scientifique : Jaurès Alfiorov (prix Nobel de physique 2000) ; Roger Kornberg (prix Nobel de chimie, 2006).
Financement. Skolkovo, un projet très ou trop ambitieux ? Viktor Vekselberg poursuit son expansion. L’oligarque, qui détient 13,7% du groupe zurichois OC Oerlikon, a annoncé son intention d’investir 300 millions de dollars pour créer la plus grande chaîne d’hôtels en Russie. Il dirige également des projets miniers en Afrique du Sud. Selon le classement Forbes 2010, la fortune du magnat des secteurs énergétique et métallurgique pèse 6,4 milliards de dollars. En mars 2010 Victor Vekselberg est nommé par le président de la Fédération de Russie Dmitry Medvedev comme directeur de la filière russe du projet pour la conception du Centre International d’innovation scientifique et technologique de Skolkovo.
Ce projet ambitieux, lancé à l’initiative de Dmitri Medvedev, va permettre à la Russie de rivaliser avec les plus grands centres de recherche et d’innovation internationaux, en réunissant sur un même site universités, entreprises, laboratoires, chercheurs… A ce stade, les auteurs des projets sont pour la majorité de jeunes scientifiques russes. Schwarzenegger in Putinland - Dmitry Sidorov - The Putin State Chronicles. Why Dmitry Medvedev wants a Russian Silicon Valley. The Russian president has been touring California's Silicon Valley for the last two days, meeting with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Russian immigrants, and the heads of Twitter, Cisco and Apple, among others.
His government is spending the equivalent of millions of dollars to try to build a high-tech center outside of Moscow, called Skolkovo, that will shake up Russia's bureaucracy and give educated Russians, of which there are many, the opportunity to innovate and start companies the way Americans do. "In a very good way, I'm sort of jealous of you all," he told a group of students and faculty at Stanford this afternoon, "because you have the opportunity to learn, teach, make money, do what you love and see your work building... " Cisco, which already invests in Russia, today committed $1 billion over the next decade to build up Skolkovo and other parts of Russia's technology infrastructure, as Smart Planet noted earlier.
"Of course we have plans," Medvedev said. Changing Course in Moscow. Over the past decade, Russian foreign policy has experienced a number of dramatic shifts. Following 9/11, Russia pursued a strategic partnership with the United States, pledging cooperation in Afghanistan while downplaying its long-standing opposition to NATO expansion and European missile defense.
But then, during Vladimir Putin’s second presidential term, Russia took advantage of rising energy prices to push back against the United States and the West, seeking to undermine pro-Western regimes in Georgia and Ukraine, and even threatening to point nuclear missiles at European countries that hosted U.S. missile defense facilities. The resurgence of Russian power in opposition to the United States and the European Union reached its apex with the August 2008 war in Georgia. Since the war, Russian foreign policy has begun to swing back toward cooperation with the West. The public face of this new course is Dmitry Medvedev, who succeeded Putin as president in 2008. Don't have an account? Zelenograd. Zelenograd (Russian: Зеленоград, IPA: [zʲɪlʲɪnɐˈgrat], lit. green city) is a city,[1] which, along with the territories and settlements under its jurisdiction, forms one of the administrative okrugs of Moscow - Zelenogradsky Administrative Okrug (ZelAO).[1] It is located 37 kilometers (23 mi) from the center of Moscow proper along Leningradskoye Shosse highway.
The city color is green and its emblematic animal is the squirrel (more precisely Sciurus vulgaris). Before 1989 Zelenograd was a de facto closed city in some aspects: it was prohibited to take photos in the central parts of the city, near the plants, teaching and research facilities, and foreigners were not admitted into the city. Zelenograd was one of the most powerful centers of electronics, microelectronics and computer industry in the Soviet Union, and it still plays a similar role in modern Russia. It was developed as a reflection of the California Silicon Valley and known also as Soviet/Russian Silicon Valley. Overview[edit] Skolkovo: Russia’s Silicon Valley? | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times. Skolkovo Innovation Center. Skolkovo: a lighthouse for foreign investors. Interview with Georges Noel, EVCA’s VC Director. Mr.
Noel, what does really attract you in Russia: is it the ambition of the country, the commitment to innovation and modernization, is it an old scientific tradition that we have here, is it rapid growth, or is it something else? I think it is investment opportunities, and if you are looking from the prospective of the venture funds, we have all objectives for the long-term to solve our investors. So we have a lot of choices of the investment strategy. Are you interested in the Skolkovo project and why? Skolkovo is often called the “Silicon Valley”, maybe in the future – the European “Silicon Valley”. Do you think Skolkovo should be regarded as such, as “silicon valley”, or you think we should be looking for new technologies and for new names and new notions for the future? Mr.
Vladimir Putin's new agency will complement Dmitry Medvedev's Skolkovo plans. “This is something different. This means network activities across Russia,” he said when he presented the new agency at Government House on May 25. But both entities will groom the work of innovation departments, facilitate the promotion of projects, and co- ordinate work through individual research and targeted programmes. So it is unclear how the agency can fail to partly duplicate the work carried out by Skolkovo. The idea of ASI ostensibly arose after Mr Putin’s various trips around Russia, during which he talked to many entrepreneurs. Their stories merged into one continuous litany of grievances about the difficulties faced by Russian businesses struggling under the yoke of bureaucracy. According to its architects, ASI will not seek to consolidate government programmes but will select the most promising projects in certain sectors. The agency will not be staffed by government personnel.
Putin creates powerful innovation agency; Skolkovo could lose momentum | East-West Digital News. La BD « Super Poutine » cartonne sur le web en Russie. Super-Poutine contre le "gnome"
Objectif Affiché: diversification de l'économie. Russie: un déficit en terme d'image ? Why "top down" innovation is difficult. Russie et Corruption.