State megainvestiruet the nano

The state will not save on nanotechnology - such a conclusion can be drawn from the speech of Deputy Prime Minister and presidential address to the participants of the First International Forum on Nanotechnology. As stated in the official announcement of the organizer of the Russian Corporation of Nanotechnologies (Rosnano), an event designed to become one of the first steps of creating in Russia a global platform where representatives of business and science will be able to discuss practical issues of nanotechnology, which is one of the leading translation directions Economy country in an innovative way of development. " On the eve of the forum, experts and journalists have repeatedly raised questions about how to be implemented ambitious plans Rosnano in a worsening economic crisis. Perhaps that's why opening the plenary session on the first day of the forum Vice Premier Sergei Ivanov said that the outflow of money from the budget of the sphere of nanotechnologies in the name of "tinkering around the edges" in the crisis will not happen. The state is still considering nanoindustry as a priority and believes that the investment made by the industry on the eve of the crisis, were strategically correct. Development of high technologies requires a "long" money - to achieve visible results in this area usually requires at least 5-10 years. In this regard, the main investor, at least today and in Russia, remains the state. However, even according to global statistics for the generous corporate funding for the pre-crisis year 2007, globally the share of public investment still accounted for 46 percent of the 13.5 billion dollars of total investment in nanotechnology. Crisis nano is not a hindrance Chapter Rosnano Anatoly Chubais explained that the main task of nanotechnology corporation to date - building bridges between science and business. In 2008, sales of Russian nanotechnology industry amounted to only 20 billion rubles, less than a billion dollars. According to Mr. Chubais, intended to increase it in 2015 with these "nano-volume to 900 billion rubles, this is the main obstacle to date to attract foreign investment in the industry. The volume of investments in the nanoindustry in 2015, Anatoly Chubais estimates at 240 billion rubles. In this case, the corporation will look for each prospective project private (Russian or foreign), a co-investor, without claiming a majority stake, but requiring the compulsory production of nano-products in Russia. On the first day of the Forum Corporation signed the founding documents for establishing a joint company to produce new generation lighting jointly with Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant named after ES Yalamov and group Onexim. Investment in the project by Rosnano be about 1.8 billion (from 3.4 billion rubles in total), of which 1.5 billion are provided as a loan. It is expected that by 2013 the revenue produced by the company will be about 6 billion rubles. Rosnano gets 17 per cent stake in the company, UOMZ - 33 percent minus one share. The share of Onexim and developers accounted for 50 percent plus one share. While this is the biggest project that receives funding from the real Rosnano. Thus, in the case with "New instrumental solutions, created this fall in conjunction with Rybinsk Saturn and Gazprombank, it was about the allocation of state corporation 500 million rubles, which is half of the total expected investments. According to director of the Israeli Nanotechnology Initiative Dan Vilensky, the strategy of the Russian government at the initial stage of the industry holds. But in a conversation with a correspondent of Radio Liberty's expert noted that nano-products are very outdated, and therefore must implement projects quickly. Nano-skiing, and not only the main foreign guest of the forum was Finland. Minister for Employment and Economy Mikko Alki signed with Rosnano memorandum of cooperation, and then handed to Anatoly Chubais a gift skis made from nanostructured materials. Chubais said that he always preferred to ski, but age seems to have already forced to move to the plains. A marked recovery in the first day of the forum has made expressive speech Kurchatov Centre director Mikhail Kovalchuk. He once again shared with the audience his "nanoideologiey: scientists, they say, must go back to the era of donyutonovskih naturalists, and a generalized view of the indivisible nature can help them with self-assembling nanotechnology to reproduce the biosystem. Russia, however, before it will have to create an innovation economy. But this, according to Kovalchuk's not even worth a long stop. It turns out that Anatoly Chubais from his task of translation of the Russian economy with raw materials on the innovation track remains to be done nothing at all.