MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax-AVN) - A conference entitled "Science Compound, Innovation and Industrial Policy" was held in Moscow on Tuesday.
"Science compounds, the main think tanks of this country, intended for solving complicated industrial problems, are a matter of concern of both the state and business community. Science compounds can make the basis to pursue the national industrial policy," Chairman of the Expert Council under the Russian government Georgy Khizha said opening the conference.
The existing compounds "even without a serious state policy make good use of their high concentration of scientific potential," he said.
Participants in the conference consider various aspects of developing the innovation environment and its influence on the competitiveness of the national economy. They are also to present the stock market experience of knowledge-intensive facilities.
The Expert Council has considered "a package of programs are considering dozens of programs. Their efficiency will remain low if we do not involve the entire Russian business community," he added.
Experts of the industrial policy committee under the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) say that industry accounts for only 32 percent of the country's GDP (in prices of 2001) and services for 53 percent. Participants in the conference believe that this disproportion should be changed.
The conference is organized by RUIE in cooperation with the Russian Trade and Industry Chamber at the initiative of the RUIE industrial policy committee with support from the Expert Council. In addition to Khizha, the event involves Vladimir Yevtushenkov, chairman of the RUIE industrial policy committee, Chairman of the Defense Industry Enterprises League Anatoly Dolgolaptev, heads of seven Russian science compounds, officials of the Russian government, federal executive bodies, the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as heads of knowledge-intensive enterprises and R&D Institutes.