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The former Ministry of Atomic Energy, former Ministry of Science and Technology, and former Ministry of Education also played active roles. Following the Russian governmental reorganization in 2004, the successor organizations to these ministries have increased their interest in science, technology, and innovation and continue to assist in facilitating interacademy activities related to innovation.
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Experiences of many Russian organizations, together with relevant experiences of Western companies, research organizations, and universities were also presented. Successes of focused programs designed to improve existing products and production capacities, and experiences with technology incubators and related approaches were specifically addressed by Russian and American participants.3 As indicated in Appendix B, the NCI program assists in the creation of sustainable jobs in the nuclear cities of Russia for specialists who had been engaged in defense-related activities.
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The workshop was intentionally held just before the Third Innovation Conference in Yekaterinburg entitled "Regional Aspects of Science and Technology Policy: From Basic Research to Putting Innovations into Practice." As a result, there were opportunities for the American and Russian workshop participants to interact informally with industrialists and local and regional officials who participated in the conference. Finally, the workshop took place just after the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, with the support of President Vladimir Putin, proposed a dramatic change in the role and organizational structure of Russian research organizations, and particularly the RAS.4 The basic ideas of the proposed change were to reduce the number of publicly supported research institutes throughout the country and to focus the remaining institutes more sharply on the economic and social needs of the country.
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This indicates that the government is attempting to develop a complex innovation model for which it can claim ownership despite financial limitations. Difficult issues such as tax reform, two-way international outsourcing of technology development, and the adoption of metrics to measure success must continue to be addressed; but a start has been made.
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