size city project. is here to answer this question. this is one of the most respected scientists in the world is research into semiconductors has become a cornerstone for all modern high tech devices he's worked the nobel prize ten years ago when russian president medvedev said he wanted modernization and you know patients in the economy and industry was definitely thinking of people like to take the lead it's seen as a priority to restore russia's intellectual potential and stop the brain drain. rational thought and his american colleague roger kornberg had been invited to spearhead a scientific c.t.d. in moscow the russian silicon valley today's arrests come to spotlight to talk about what's ahead for the russian science. thank you very much for coming from coming to the studio well first of all let's

talk about the name silicon valley as soon as the government decided to develop this project it was named silicon valley after the after the american silicon valley so do you like the name and do you are you ready to follow the american example or you she is a silicon valley can be considered here only. because silicon williams united states. was started to develop visit goal of the well up and it was a semiconductor microelectronics based on silicon transistors which reflected wish reflected the u.s. emphasis on the computer industry right through our stuff all happened after was a discovery of semiconductor times the start of the end of fortress and really i'm shocked because one of the inventor semiconductor. levels of bell telephone laboratory in cambridge and with patients of the stanford to new york city and get all the. company chocolate i'm just going to put asian bill shankly was

outstanding then great scientist and not what a good businessman but he at that acted mainly young scientists who started some company as a child and late that it became now a very well known that way most companies intel but that it was fewer stuff will develop on top of the semiconductor microelectronics beach played very important role in the development of their science technology and social science so it was based on modern information technologies and then it was not as a place it was but a good california nice climate ston part of the new go to it you could report in new york city in better clee so it was a very good place because all of this can be developed on leone's a base of science and develop of some new kind of technology so eve

in my opinion we are not going just to quote the silicon valley in the united states but as a da is just to create some new same teeth because chefs and the beach must be definitely various that on the connected bizzare sort of sent us in our country and you know from our school and very proud of from moscow but that i was on as a to create a disease and you that is short center and development of new high technology in our country and got direct to many internationally well known and the russian scientists the bugs there it was a main indeed why i was a guinea practically to be chairman of just say still of this center because i'm a in a year it just to develop size beach became is a basic is a base for the development of water. i checked acknowledge we now know you sound so

sorry you are ok with the name but you're not going to copy the american example ok now now now if silicon valley started as you mentioned with semiconductors with transistors and this was the cornerstone of american history at that time computer technology which high tech industry could become the cornerstone of russia's technological revolution you see it's very you put to me a very complicated and difficult question. and. one observed. very but the results of what we call reports didn't last very into yours that we practically destroyed industry which were concentrated in the industrial minister his speech called them ministerial invested in a military court military complex but it was very well developed quite taking this thing na will be are indeed very difficult situation because my colleague through

an ex non-addicted i knew it was the next step very important one but in order to come pete in syria and it wouldn't surprise him dressed to court people would have been done we must find out some kind of theme you very press picked you. direction in the shortage vision became zip braces for a new bill a lot of new startup companies and zan to develop a technology industry well let's take a look at what the russian version of the silicon valley isn't meant to be here's this report from spotlights he'll energy media. in five or seven years time the small town of school on the outskirts of moscow hopes to become the russian equivalent of silicon valley the project is part of the country's attempt to move away from its dependence on oil and gas exports last year the government

spent almost forty billion dollars on innovation projects but the number of tech start ups just fifty was a disappointment the skookum a project expected to make a difference to avoid the key backs common in state project businessman addictive x.l. barack has been to charge the russian version of superman valley will also get special economic and legal status. tax breaks are a key issue for businesses skolkovo residents who pay. property tax for ten years experts believe attracting foreign brains to the project is essential american by a chemist and a bell prize winner roger kornberg has already agreed to co-chair the scientific and technical council overseeing russia's new silicon valley to make it more attractive to foreign scientists amendments are being made to the russian immigration laws there are going to be around thirty thousand people even in school

give all the lion's share of the site's funding will initially come from the government though private investment is being strongly encouraged corruption is a big problem for russia but i believe it. will be able to escape from. the new skolkovo centers a captive it is will focus on five priorities and information technology communication via medical research and nuclear technology the most challenging part of the task will not be the research itself but find in practical application poor it in the past russia has been good at scientific innovation but bad at turning it into commercial products. so what do you think how will skulk over and will it be able to close the gap between

fundamental science and production. it is she's a good bit of fundamental science and production exists everywhere in every country and has special type of predicted six video old friend of mine unfortunately he died a few years ago george bought who was president that london the royal society said once that all science is applied science is the differences that some of the patients came in better short of time but some that even century. we can see that as a problem of how to make development go for the shortage and then became in that still production in soviet union in the united states and saudi exists different type how to do it better a lot of that recognized its creation of what we call now start up companies on

a very important to have very strong connections between basically shortage and develop and geez what a pity cations so as a startup company is that is you must fall. to look for the most brumbies increase your church duty and. is this a very difficult time in ninety four instance is that ash an academy of science and academy of science we're sort of i have got to stop all due to joint projects because deep in thought in laboratories and for instance mileage has a lot of special context be stable. i remember in the end of ninety s i science it agreement between your and eat thirty industrial technology institute and they went and the special kind took institue you at the beach combine maybe from some point of view like. a science that the knowledge of it and somebody showed she

institute it has approximately six thousand people who are out of work and there and it just weighed by budget and created the prospect in pretty short indifferent paid yet and as a health celebrity sepia be weighed by companies when somebody is outs ins is budgeted what it is and became prominent for implications saw. that there would be important to have some kind of analog in school leg zip but it was a main important problem for our company late now it's just not the only tool. signs they finitely the science the source of all technology but the very important the one the now is the problem is that a cave you can. start up companies be out of deeds it for instance when you project

waste on science and technological speech. then with science and with me new york. but to be needs to create by taking this study this is the most important problem says. nobel prize winner spotlight will be back shortly right after the break so stay with us we will continue in some. cultures that so much of an interview. on. what is culture powerful than ideology today with the rise of an emerging economy is a prone to more clash. wealthy british style.

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a few new movements soon from phones to christians. who screen stunts on t.v. dot com. welcome back to spotlight on al gore and often just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is joining us i'll fill out a nobel prize winner and cochairman of scientific technical board off skolkovo side city project this whole thought of where we where we talked about this this new and this new project. in skolkovo which russians are well on already labeling as the as the second silicon valley well the question that i had immediately after after i realized that this is serious that this is going to happen is that

the soviet union had research centers all around the country from france from from did not to novosibirsk they were called the so-called no confidence from the from the sixty's now did they proved to be insufficient in the end post so that russia and what they should look at might be one of the best places and maybe in one it was a different divisions of russian academy of science they said marian braincells like a team of science one of the best one it may be. developed will and which should be a descriptor damn good to talk about a good place and yes this is good same typically research center. would not be just would have strong connections views illinois going to new york from school if i could am going to look in there should be a tax. there exists places if you have z's

then be sure developed before but always very different the chance in them to start to grow some new one and if you have some opportunity to grow in you same typically send that beach would not be separate proms the smom beach with fair they fit and strong connections but would be develope via some in ones that are goals and on of their main goal since called you just tend to be me and my coach adam in the roger corman better would be for them the same keep it console of the skulk i will send them on as a main problem would be just the site. veatch direction subsidies shortage. in order to create new york high thick thick knowledge base in our country well let's see if people in the streets of moscow think that the innovative city in

skulk about can change the future of russia spotlights carts on the other has the details from the streets of moscow. how well recently then the vision city was called which is considered to be russia's version of the silicon valley and its plan to build me a moscow has been widely discussed in the russian capital let's see if people think that this high tech hub can change the future of russia. i look upon the subject with great skepticism mainly due to what russia's history has taught us historically most scientific and technological breakthroughs in russia at least in the fields of rocketry chemistry in the military were made in so-called sure russia gets what this means is the conflict scientists were samaj to work on certain projects under the supervision of the procured structures i think it will be very hard to create a scientific or technological oasis in russia as long as the country's interior problems chiefly bureaucratize nation and court system malfunctions remain unresolved. i'm one hundred percent certain that skolkovo will help improve

russia's future the reason is there are smart people working on it people who know not only how to manage government money but their own money as well as no one will invest their own money without hope or turns and that's talking about it cynically another thing is that young people young scientists will finally have a reason to stay in russia to make a name for themselves and lead an interesting life or science. out of god ek she's got a question about gets past that it's good then mr author of my question is is it true that school cabal misstatement in the state that it will have its own laws and is a true that mathematician going to be a man has agreed to work in school. so here we have two questions well let's start with the with the last one is mr perelman has he agreed to leave the working school no i have been cured of that from the t.v. must mean i don't see him because of the trip and then there's not a very important one because. going to go to put him on his genius yes but we need

then school really is a scientist who out of work and in physics chemistry biology by a nun and technology microelectronics saw signs and i read in theoretical mathematics which is yes it is just in very your area of set it tickle much of my tics and of course people like better would be out that acts like he planned he's a brat yeah yeah but it doesn't meant that in my opinion ok no no the any other question which it which is a rather serious question from this young lady is is that is it true that skolkovo will become a state within a state like. autonomous from the rest of russia because people have been we're have been talking about about special laws special taxes maybe even special police and well is it going to be a lot like sort of the vatican inside russia. you she. even for

instance it would be believed important that all the north some fourteen saying just yes but in my opinion the main problem it's not as special law the main problem is that we had direct young russian saying just sophisticated experience that our friend and for insane just do and someone problem for science it's not only just the way a good sale lady it nets that it definitely is not only is a problem of what bachmann that's on it in a city though is a main problem for russia right now is a science must be could have stood by me and the industry and from point of view the secret of a new same t.v. center if it would be v's. additional opportunities for science blade important all for

a development of new st if we get actions to create new start up companies it's very important for creation lobs a new branch of the economy so this is i again my spent by size one of the most important parts much more important than spare for a long there's this really is very important vital because because we've talked in this studio with a couple of people who have of scientists who have emigrated to where we went to work in the west and one of the main reason for for leaving this country and going to work to carry out scientific research in the west which they mentioned was that we want to feel that somebody needs you know what we're doing exactly what wants our brain to do worry that this is what exactly is this is a main problem right now for science and there are shown for instance the same keep it is that it's would be requested by state by economy by society no on would be

started to criticize but i don't like that they may have science and start to speak zakk of them even don't need them so on. eve as a country needs science we need spin experience good qualified scientists we need to develop a national academy of science and we need to develop new new law that is for instance my pupils emigrated to grow to become very strong connections with them i remember for instance on a very talented guy or truck or he decided to leave this sandpit a book and work in germany i said that your show why you are a good example and counts for commuters who are on this you know. it's very interesting to your kids excellent atmosphere in our lab ordered thirty one in order to make some new experimental sample i spent just the week on the new equipment i can do it for a few hours so if you need it but after that after we are getting new equipment

to be just the jewels that i direct action for same typically shortage and book would be interested in the next very important one such site economy must be our results must be here so do you think this cocoa will be capable of solving the problem of brain drain. you see a school go itself would not solve the problem of brain drain but i and brain exist in the new continents for instance my journey from europe saying just. the you are going to hear the united states because because not only because they're as it has better celery and maybe a little bit better condition for life but also because it's the feeling of them if they had results and needed those that go on and on as a main problem and maint that's what's called to create that's much fear rituals

that i did actually unity church and state but as it didn't mean to be idea of people from as a government would be say or create it's very important that is outs and vishal spend the minute part of development of new branch of the industry or created by is a charge in skolkovo the press has been writing a lot about skolkovo about this new this new civil and russian version of silicon valley at tri it's a good book and a good read trying to attract to invite lots of employees specialists from abroad is it true that you are putting some special emphasis on inviting foreign specialists to work it's no use i don't consider that as this is a most important program for instance when i was invited to be the chairman of scientific on still and i was proposed to choose cochairman for them if you can still and i was. that they decided that out of court and better would be very good

candidate to be my cochairman because he's from stanford he's from area of silicon valley but stop all he is very successful in there by anon the technology he is very successful in genetic information problems and. me as a played physicist and he as specialist in biochemistry and biology would be just ed in the right shoes and goes the direction i was at his church thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was shut us out of nobel prize winner and cochairman of scientific technical board. size city project that's it for now from all of us here will be back with more firsthand comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then stay on r.t. and take care that's about.

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