MOSCOW. May 7 (Interfax-AVN) - Twenty-five percent of workers with the Russian Control Systems Agency are engaged in research, the agency's deputy director general Sergei Muravyov said on Wednesday.
"Out of 400,000 specialists working in the industry, 100,000 are engaged in research. This is a very high level, and it confirms that our industry is the most knowledge-intensive," Muravyov told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Seventy-five percent of the agency's research organizations are profit-making, he went on to say. Many of them are involved in the implementation of several federal purpose-oriented programs, including those aimed at developing the national technological base.
According to the agency's press service, state-owned enterprises play the leading role in the research and technical field. The volume of research and technical products created by the agency's state-owned enterprises grew by 12 percent in the first quarter of 2003. It amounts to 80 percent of the entire radio-electronic industry output.
Over this period, average monthly salaries of workers with the agency's research enterprises grew nearly 1.4 times to RUB5,611 (USD180.4) against the same period of 2002. The average salaries are the highest at Moscow's Agat R&D Institute and Fazotron-NIIR corporation, at the NIIRS enterprise in Rostov-on- Don, and at the St. Petersburg-based Russian Institute of Radio Navigation and Time.
An average salary in the industry amounts to RUB3,656 (USD117.5) a month, the press service said.