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The Creation of Sustainable Business in Russia's Nuclear Cities
The Creation of Sustainable Business in Russia's Nuclear Cities
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, but with 15 institutes covering advanced materials, medical radiology, meteorology, radiation chemistry, agricultural ecology, and technical education. Reutov adjacent to Moscow on the west and home of the MashinoStroyenia Research and Production Association, developer and manufacturer of civil and military aerospace hardware.
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Experts from the European Union, from Russian academies and consultancies, and from local organizations were used to carry out the work. About 200 local staff in institutes and innovation support centers were given training, new equipment was provided to support the innovation infrastructure, direct support on commercial development was given to six selected institutes, and nine demonstration projects were carried out on commercial development.
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Consequently the current project has devoted a lot of its time to cultural change in institutions. One of the two consortium members running the project is ALA Technology plc, a large publicly quoted technology services company created from a government R&D organization with several research centers in the United Kingdom, the UK Atomic Energy Authority.
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The appraisal reports were used with the selected institutes as a basis to form strategic plans and to identify the main areas for cultural change. In almost all cases the institutes were strong in capabilities, leadership, and purposes, but were all poor on commercial understanding and had a culture that was not suitable for the future in a market economy.
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In one case where the institute was expecting a major change to be imposed on it in about 18 monks, it requested a series of more detailed cultural change seminars covering me 10 topics from me original appraisal. Commercial activities Technology Develop Reorganize Commercialize Private transfer; commercial to face whole company Spin-offs structure market organization status Government actions Develop Diversify Distance Detach Privatize MISSION LED AEA Technology 1954 1965 1977 Examples of European institutes now CERN, Switz.
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This model structure shows that federal budgetary links are entirely separated from the commercial activities, except that IP developed with federal funding is used in the commercial activities. One important decision is which of the required commercial capabilities are kept in the organization and which are purchased either from the local innovation infrastructure or private consultants.
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In the other case the partnership pulled together a lead institute with a major university to ensure that students gained actual experience and were properly trained in a new area. Private business also took part and gained resources from the institute and the university, who in return gained extra funding.
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Several of the main laws relating to science cities and R&D are in conflict. Regulations on taxation on R&D institutions and the transfer of payments for rent and services tend to discourage commercial activities apart from contract research.
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Vol. 4 Regions of High Concentration of Scientific and Technological Potential in Countries of the European Union.
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