Russia's Skolkovo in Comparative and Historical Context
Date: Wednesday June 13 2012
Location: Rooms 431/433, UCL SSEES, 16 Taviton Street, WC1H 0BW
Time: 9.30-17.30
Skolkovo is a new, high-profile innovation centre near Moscow – it has been called Russia’s ‘Silicon Valley’.
On 13th June UCL
School of Slavonic & East European Studies, supported by CEELBAS, brought together leading
scholars, policy-makers and practitioners, as well as key representatives of
the Skolkovo Foundation itself, to examine the institutional and historical
context in which Skolkovo is developing and put it in comparative perspective.
The workshop aimed to ask how the present policies on innovation in Russia compare with other efforts
to modernise via science & technology. What are the chances of success for
the Skolkovo project? View the background context to the workshop.
Speakers included:
- Conor Lenihan (Vice President for International Partnership Development, Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow)
- Artyom Morozov (Advisor to Vice-President, Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow)
- Robert Crawford (Director of Investments, Innovation and Growth at Nesta)
- Laurence Broyd (Eastern Research Group, EECAD, Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
- Professor Slavo Radosevic (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies)
- Professor Julian Cooper (Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham)
- Professor Paul Josephson (Department of History, Colby College, USA)
Workshop Podcasts (click on speaker's name to view presentation slides):
SESSION 1) What is Skolkovo?
Chair:
Professor Slavo Radosevic (UCL SSEES)
Speakers: Conor Lenihan (Vice President for International Partnership Development, Skolkovo Foundation
in Moscow) and Artyom Morozov (Advisor to Vice-President, Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow):
SESSION 2) Comparative perspectives on innovation policy
Chair:
Professor Ben Martin (University of Sussex)
Speakers: Robert Crawford (Director of Investments, Innovation and Growth at Nesta) and Evgeny
Klochikhin (Research
Student, Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, Manchester Business
School, University of Manchester):
SESSION 3) Historical perspectives on innovation and science and technology policies in the Soviet Union and Russia in the 1990s
Chair: Dr
Christopher Davis (University of
Oxford)
Speakers: Professor Julian Cooper (Centre for Russian and East European Studies,
University of Birmingham); Professor Paul Josephson (Department of History, Colby College, USA); and Dr Victoria Donovan (University of Exeter):
SESSION 4) Lessons for Skolkovo based on comparative and historical experiences on innovation
Chair: Peter
Healey (University of Oxford)
Speakers: Artyom Morozov (Advisor to Vice-President, Skolkovo Foundation in Moscow); Laurence Broyd (Eastern Research Group, EECAD, Foreign and Commonwealth Office); and Professor David Dyker (Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex):
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