Russian First Vice Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov is shown during the Industry and Energy Ministry visiting session.
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First Vice Premier Suggests Punishing for Innovation Avoidance
In Russia, it is necessary to create conditions so that authorities could financially punish enterprises avoiding innovation in addition to encouraging for innovation, First Vice Premier Sergey Ivanov announced during a visiting sitting of Military and Industrial Commission in Yekaterinburg.
It is not only creating conditions to encourage transfer of technology from industrial and defense complex to the civil sector and backwards, though that is the highlight when upgrading the latter today, the first vice premier specified.
It is rather shaping actions aimed at establishing certain environment with the key part played not by the capital but by ideas and ability to promote them to commercial stage, Ivanov said.
Creating innovation environment will bring momentum to reunion of money and ideas, Ivanov hoped. Those notions are divided in today’s Russia. Penniless ideas and idea-lacking money are on different sides of the fence. But the new environment should be based on the partnership of government and private business.
This year is not the first one when the government endeavors to pull out of raw dependence in favor of economy. But same as years before, natural resources (or product of first processing at best) account for two-thirds of the country’s economy.
According to some analysts, Special Economic Zones (SEZ) of engineering and promotional type that have been created in Russia since the end of 2005 and Russia’s Venture Co. that emerged in late 2006 will be the growth points for so-called new economy of the country.
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