maker russia the country of world class innovative products nobel prize winner and co-chair of the skull cover size of the 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 and 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 valley and the united states. was started and they're well up visit goal of their well up and i was a semiconductor microelectronics on silicon transistors which reflected wish reflected the u.s. emphasis on the computer industry write your stuff all it will happen tough that was a discovery in semiconductors that i'm just out of the fortress and really i'm shocked because one of the inventor semiconductor. labs a bell. that he came by and with patient to the stanford to new york city and he

found it he's all the. company truck it that i'm just going to put a sion bill shankly was outstanding been great scientist and not a good businessman but he had to direct the many yann scientists school started get some companies a lot of child and late that it became now a very well known for payrolls company intel but that it was fewer stoffel development of the semiconductor microelectronics beach played very important role in the development of their science technology and even social science so it was based on modern information technologies and then it was not as a place it was a very good california nice climate stand but when you go to it you can afford a new york city in better clee so it was a very good place because all of these can be developed on leone's

a base of science and develop some new kind of technology so eve in my opinion we are not going just to corby silicon valley as the united states but as a. just to create some new same keep it to share center beach must be definitely very strongly connected bizarre is that any sort of sense that it's in our country and you know from our school and put a mosque or but that i was alone as a to create a disease and you that is short center and development of new high technology in our country and dr akhter many internationally well known and the russian scientists the exam it was a main indeed why i was a guinea practically to be chairman of just say still of this center because in maine they dia you just to develop. size beach became is a basic this is

a base for the development of more high tech because knowledge we in our previous times says so you're ok with the name but you're not going to copy the american example ok now not now if if silicon valley started as you mentioned with semiconductors with transistors and this 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. why on observe. very better results of what we call reports during clustering to yours that we practically destroyed industry which were concentrated in the industrial minister is to be called them ministerial in the us their military court military complex but it was very well developed quite taking this thing nawal. we

are indeed a very difficult situation because my character on x. non-native cryonics has a next step very important one but the north door comfy it insists area. it wouldn't it's a problem just to court it would have been done we must find out some kind of new very precious picked you direction in the shortage which became as a basis for a new lot of you'll start up companies and zan to develop a technology industry well let's take a look at what the russian version of the silicon valley is and then to be here's this report from spotlights. 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 attempts

to move away from its dependence on oil and gas exports last year the government spent almost forty billion dollars on in the nation projects but the number of tech start ups just fifty was a disappointment the scoop of a project expected to make a difference to avoid the key backs common in state project businessman victor beck so burke has been put in charge the russian version of superman valley will also get special economic gain legal status. tax breaks are a key issue for businesses skolkovo residents will 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 of all the lion's share of the sites funding will initially come from the government to private investment is being strongly encouraged corruption is a big problem for russia but i believe it. will be able to escape from the right amount the new school or centers it david is while focused on five priorities and an 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 and better 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. issue is a good bit fundamental science and production exists everywhere in every country and a special type of predicted six video old friend of mine unfortunately he died a few years ago george bush at that who was president is that london the royal society has said once that all science is applied science to the differences that some of the patients came in better short time but some that even century. we can see that as a problem of how to make development of the shortage and then became in that's still part of the action in soviet union in the united states and that aids is different. to do it better. that i 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 patients so as a startup company is that is you must fall. to look for the most prominent christian church duty and. very difficult time in one thousand stems that are from academy of science and medicine our academy of science we are sort of i got to stop all due to joint projects because deep in thought in laboratories and put in stone mile of has a lot of special contacts. i remember in the end of the ninety's i sense that it could be meant to be to be in your youth and e.t. industrial technology institute in a bind and

a special kind of constituent to beach come by and maybe from some point of view like. a science that the knowledge of it and somebody showed she institute it because approximately six thousand people quoted reckons there and it just weighed by budget and created the prospectivity shortage indifferent paid yet and that is that health is a lab order that is sepia weighed by companies when somebody is outs ins is budgeted but it is a big game prominent patients. saw. it there would be important to have some kind of analog in school legs that but it was a main important problem for our company late now is just not the only. they finitely the sciences source of all technology but the very important the one the half now is a problem is that ok because it creates some startup companies be out of deeds it

for instance and when you project that waste on to science and technological it. out. then with science in our instinct you would when you your to go out to be needs taking the study this is the most important problem says. a nobel prize winner spotlight will be back shortly right after the break so stay with us we will continue to.

discover its beauty. communicate with. test yourself and become free. see what nature can give you on the. welcome back to spotlight i'm just a reminder that my guest in the studio today is. i'll fill out of nobel prize winner and cochairman of the scientific technical board of skolkovo science city project this whole thought of what we we talked about this this new this new

project in skolkovo which russians are 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 dubh not to novosibirsk they were called the so-called local going to ads from the from the sixty's now did they proved to be insufficient in the end post soviet russian or 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 the beautiful book idea i'm going to talk about a good place and yes this is good same typically research center.

and i see an exact scroll of would not be just would have strong connections viz illinois going to new york from school if i could am going to look in there should be a visit. there is this place is if you care they seize them be sure developed before. but always it's very different the chanche some think this is the start of the grow some new one. and if you have. opportunity the girl when you same typically share center which wouldn't be separate from season one mutual pair they fit and strong connections but would be developed if some goals and main goals since called it just be me and my question i mean the roger of course would be for the same keep it

console of the skolkovo center one of the main problem would be just to just sight of each direction subsidy church. in order to create new high tech technology base in our country well let's see if people in the streets of moscow think that the innovative city in skulker can change the future of russia spotlights carts on the other has the details from the streets of moscow. how well recently their vision city in skolkovo which is considered to be russia's version of the silicon valley and its plan to build me in moscow has been widely discussed in the russian capital but people think that this high tech 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 rush because what this means is the conflict

scientists were assembled to work on certain projects under the supervision procured structures i think it will be very hard to create a scientific or technological oasis and russia as long as the country's interior problems chiefly bureaucratize nation 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 no one will invest their own money without hope for turns on 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 the leap for themselves and lead an interesting life or science. out of god here she's got a question about get past that. my question is is it true that school come on will be a state within a state that it will have its own laws and there's

a truth of mathematician really good he didn't want 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 as. a t.v. . i don't see him because of that there's not a very important one because. i'm going to go to put him on his genius yes but the newton school really is a saint just out of work and in physics chemistry biology bio none and technology microelectronics so. in theoretical mathematics which is just in very. sad a tickle much of my tics and of course people like about the fact he's a brat yeah yeah but it doesn't meant that in my opinion ok no no the other question was 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 aware have been talking about about special laws special taxes maybe even special police and well is it going to be like sort of a vatican inside russia. eve for instance it would be played the important at all in or some foreign scientist yes but in my opinion this is a main problem it's not a special law the main problem is that we had direct young russian saying just sophisticated experience that i shun them for insane just to and simply probe and put a science it's not only just the way a good sale lady it nets that it definitely is not only is the problem of up bottom and 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 in the study and point of view is it creation of a new same t.v. sent that would be viz some a dish uno. additional opportunities for science played the important role for development of new same t.v. good 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 must emphasize 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 scientists who have emigrated to where we were 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 doing exactly what wants our brain to do worry that this is what exactly is this is a main problem right now for science in the russian for instance the same keep it results would be requested by state by economy and by society nor on would be started to criticize that action like that they may have science and start to speak zakhar them even don't need them so on. eve is a company needs science we need sperm experience good qualified scientists we need to develop a national academy of science and we need to develop new a new law that is for instance my pupils emigrated to grow to be very strong connections with them i remember for instance on a very talented guy a lot of golf he decided to leave this sandpit a book and work in germany i said that your show why you are

a good example and counsel of commuters who are on this you know. it's very interesting to your kids excellent atmosphere in our laboratory by new york to make some new experimental sample i spent just the week on say new equipment i can do it for a few hours so if you need. but after that after we are getting new equipment to be just the tools 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 did he do 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 contents for instance in my dream many of you were saying just. the you are going to hear the united states because because not only because they're as it

has bit of celery and maybe a little bit better condition for life but also because it's the feeling of them they are results and need to go on and on as a main problem and maint that's what's called to create that so much fear to choose that i did actually reach your church and state but is it then me to be idea of people problems or government would be say or create it's very important that is and vishal spend the minute part of development of new branch of be industry are created by a very sharp and skulk of the press has been writing a lot about skolkovo about this need in this new civil and russian version of silicon valley at trial it's in a three digit book and read trying to attract to invite a 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 jules cochairman of st if you can still and i was. there they decided that order would be very good candidate to be my cochairman because he's from stanford he's from a.t.o. of silicon valley but paul he is very successful means a bi anon a technology he is very successful in genetic information problems and me as a blade physicist and he has specialised in biochemistry and biology would be just add in that i choose in the direction of his church thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest today was just as alfie are nobel prize winner. and cochairman off scientific technical board. size city project that's it for now

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