of students in the same mid ninety's graduate class and while the op electronics department gave them the best of foundations they were completing their studies at a time of difficult transition for the russian scientific community. at the beginning of. our economy facing a dramatic evil due to disastrous reforms implemented by the government i mean there were carried out in a callous way and as a result russian science found itself in a difficult situation we could not have survived maintained scientific potential with international collaboration. founders were part of a global generation of innovative entrepreneurs seeking the elusive startup conditions in an era of uncertainty in fact much of the developed world was suffering in economic identity crisis in the late twentieth century not just in the collapsing socialist bloc the west german city of dortmund where the russian innovators eventually founder incubate was no exception. the world is full of rusting old industrial space by the wayside and the constant shifts of the global economy the challenge on everyone's minds is to ret