Νew Technologies and Innovation Development in Russia

sepheronx wrote:Tatarstan Innopolis Opens in Russia
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So it is pretty much similar to Skolkovo but this one is near Kazan.

Chinese telecommunications and networking giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd has signed a cooperation agreement with Russia’s I-Teco Company, a provider of enterprise IT systems, and JSC SEZ Innopolis, the management firm of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone (SEZ) near Kazan.

The companies say they plan to cooperate on the development of new IT and communications products based on international standards for the Russian market, with a particular focus on virtualization and cloud computing. The agreement was announced at a special ceremony in Innopolis, CNews reported.

A spokesperson for I-Teco said the Russian firm will work together with Huawei in the research and development of virtualization systems and a cloud computing platforms based on the open-source OpenStack project. For these purposes, I-Teco plans to create a subsidiary company which will be resident in the SEZ Innopolis technopark. As for Huawei, it will provide both hardware and software that’s compatible with OpenStack technology, in addition to human and material resources. The ultimate aim is to develop systems that meet international standards and can satisfy the needs of both Russian and fellow BRIC’s nations companies.



To begin with, I-Teco and Huawei plan to set up a special working group to formulate a plan for developing the technologies. CNews said that students and academics from the University Innopolis would also participate in the development process, and that the university would create special courses for students interested in learning about cloud software.

“Huawei welcomes Russian initiatives to transform its IT strategy in various sectors,” said Wan Biao, CEO of Huawei. “We are confident that the creation of the Innopolis Special Economic Zone will be a key driver of the Russian IT economy. We hope that our cooperation with I-Teco will provide an opportunity for us to apply our broad knowledge and international experience within the Russian market. “

Huawei certainly has the “broad knowledge” and “international experience” required to get the job done. The company is one of the largest telecommunications and networking firms in the world, and operates more than 400 data centers worldwide, according to CNews. The company also operates seven research centers in China, Europe and North America, staffed with over 12,000 engineers and developers. Huawei also has 658 patents related to cloud computing, and over 400 in the field of data storage.

Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have developed a technology of manufacturing a fuel cell for the first Russian nuclear power sources. Their first experimental batch they plan to release in 2016. And the mass production will be deployed on the basis of the Mining and chemical combine (the enterprise of the state Corporation "Rosatom", RIA Novosti reported.

A joint project of the works and the Siberian aerospace University named after academician M. F. Reshetnev for the production of electric batteries, using energy "soft" beta-decay of radioactive Nickel-63, became one of winners of competition of the Russian Ministry of education.
Head of the Department of technical physics TPU Igor Shamanin said that with the help of the research nuclear reactor at Tomsk scientists will produce from the isotope Nickel-62 unstable isotope Nickel-63 is a pure beta emitter. His energy radiation is small, with a relatively large half-life. The so-called nuclear battery it is possible to create on its basis. This power source is able to serve about 50 years.
The joint project will create a new generation of Autonomous electronics and medical equipment. According to Igor Shamanin, the need for reliable batteries that have such a long service life, high. For example, nuclear batteries can be used for a pacemaker.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:In Russia begins production of nuclear batteries

So when improved maybe sub drones can use it?

http://www.pravda.ru/news/science/09-06-2015/1262770-tpu-0/

zepia wrote:

GunshipDemocracy wrote:In Russia begins production of nuclear batteries

So when improved maybe sub drones can use it?

http://www.pravda.ru/news/science/09-06-2015/1262770-tpu-0/

Russian are creating T-800.
   

magnumcromagnon wrote:

zepia wrote:

GunshipDemocracy wrote:In Russia begins production of nuclear batteries

So when improved maybe sub drones can use it?

http://www.pravda.ru/news/science/09-06-2015/1262770-tpu-0/

Russian are creating T-800.
   

Terminator Armata MK3...

sepheronx wrote:Tatarstan Innopolis Opens in Russia



So it is pretty much similar to Skolkovo but this one is near Kazan.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:

zepia wrote:

GunshipDemocracy wrote:In Russia begins production of nuclear batteries

So when improved maybe sub drones can use it?

http://www.pravda.ru/news/science/09-06-2015/1262770-tpu-0/

Russian are creating T-800.
   

Terminator Armata MK3...

disposal of damaged battery

AlfaT8 wrote:
+1 gunship

Anyway depending on how powerful this battery is, it may be a major breakthrough, like powering an exoskeleton combat suite (ala Halo).


.....YET

sepheronx wrote:Yota Devices intends to begin production in Kaluga

Apparently, the phones will be a secure type phone, meant for all types really (but there is a huge demand for government and enterprise needs).  So they will end up opening a plant to produce them in Russia for that.  They will be expensive, but specialized.

Werewolf wrote: Need a new phone since my current one is broken and i have to use my 11 year old one right now, bit archaic but works like its first day. However thought for weeks to get a Yotaphone but i find those smartphones are to expensive and Yotaphone 2 is nowhere in my budget with 600 euro's, thought maybe to import it from Russia could end up being cheaper if i somehow can get it that way and avoid ordering it for german prices?

Maybe someone has better grasp of that and how to get one for russian price?

magnumcromagnon wrote:

Honestly the Yotaphone needs to shoot for the 'cost-effective', 'flagship-killer' market...right now the role model of the 'cheap' flagship-killer smartphone is the 'One+1', and the 'One+2' smartphone's from China. If the Yotaphone doesn't work out well for you, your best bet is either the One+1 or the One+2 as they give you the most for your money.

GarryB wrote:I tried Yandex, but I must have downloaded the wrong file as it is all in Russian and I can't work out how to use it properly... will give it another go later in the week I think.

GarryB wrote:I tried Yandex, but I must have downloaded the wrong file as it is all in Russian and I can't work out how to use it properly... will give it another go later in the week I think.

Militarov wrote:The program was met with some skepticism at home and abroad — the Economist, for instance, called Medvedev’s plans “implausible.” But Go Russia! appeared to get off to a good start. The Medvedev government traveled abroad to champion its new favorite industry, negotiating a partnership between Skolkovo and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and securing financial support from Silicon Valley luminaries, including a $100 million investment from Cisco. Start-ups began flocking to the campus: It grew from 332 resident companies in 2011, to 793 a year later, to more than a thousand by 2013. Foreign capital flooded into Russia: Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine, staged its initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange in 2011, raising $1.3 billion — at the time the largest dot-com IPO in the United States since Google’s in 2004. The 2010 IPO on the London Stock Exchange of Mail.ru, a major Russian Internet holding comprising social networking and gaming sites, was 20 times oversubscribed, according to insiders. Skolkovo was raided by anti-corruption agents in April 2013, after which several figureheads on the project were accused of misappropriation of funds. Although officials deny that the investigations were politically motivated, Skolkovo has tumbled down the government’s priority list: This year, the incubator was ordered to cut costs by 20 to 40 percent. “I know five or eight companies who either are leaving or have already left,” said Anton Gladkoborodov, co-founder of Coub, a video-sharing platform and among the most successful companies in Moscow’s nascent tech scene. “If they open the borders and let people have visas, everyone will leave.” “I know quite a few start-ups whose founders have moved to the U.S., to New York, San Francisco,” she said. “Even Ireland — there are programs and incubators there. People are proactively looking for opportunities outside of Russia.” Both Gladkoborodov and Zavrieva are planning their own exits. Coub already has office space in New York City; Channelkit hopes to relocate to the United States toward the end of 2015. And so the dream of a Russian “Silicon Steppe” looks to have died before it even began."[/i] Source: foreignpolicy.com

Whole article is too long so i wont post it whole, its anyways half full of anti-Putin propaganda but this part was interesting.

Militarov wrote:The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia’s Silicon Valley

"t was in September 2009, against the backdrop of the world economic crisis, that the then-president of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, unveiled an ambitious modernization program for his country. Of the world’s major economies, Russia’s had fared the worst in the aftermath of the global downturn. GDP shrank by 7.9 percent across 2009, including a record 10.9 percent in the second quarter. Unemployment hit a peak of 9.4 percent in February of that same year. Going into the crisis, oil and natural gas had accounted for some two-thirds of exports. Many had already long recognized that Russia’s dependence on commodities exports was making it vulnerable, but Medvedev was the first Russian president to actively engage with the problem. His solution was a set of reforms, sketched out in a 4,000-word treatise titled “Go Russia!” The reforms were designed to harness technology in order to equip Russia for the 21st century, and they covered industries ranging from nuclear power to space technology to pharmaceuticals. Medvedev’s reforms called for, among other things, a 40 percent reduction in Russia’s energy consumption by 2020, and the commercial generation by 2050 of power by thermonuclear fusion. Medvedev proposed a raft of measures to stimulate IT innovation, from e-governance to education programs to the development of a national grid of supercomputers, whose rollout would begin immediately. The jewel in the crown, announced a few months later, was to be a $4 billion innovation center on a 600-acre plot in a suburb called Skolkovo on the outskirts of Moscow — “something on the lines of Silicon Valley,” as Medvedev himself put it, which by 2020 would house up to 50,000 researchers and technologists. Skolkovo would serve as an incubator for Russia’s start-up community, offering grants, education, and office space. Little by little, Medvedev would make his country — known mostly for oil and gas production and the mining of minerals and heavy metals — an attractive place for homegrown innovation and tech entrepreneurs.

The program was met with some skepticism at home and abroad — the Economist, for instance, called Medvedev’s plans “implausible.” But Go Russia! appeared to get off to a good start. The Medvedev government traveled abroad to champion its new favorite industry, negotiating a partnership between Skolkovo and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and securing financial support from Silicon Valley luminaries, including a $100 million investment from Cisco. Start-ups began flocking to the campus: It grew from 332 resident companies in 2011, to 793 a year later, to more than a thousand by 2013. Foreign capital flooded into Russia: Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine, staged its initial public offering on the Nasdaq exchange in 2011, raising $1.3 billion — at the time the largest dot-com IPO in the United States since Google’s in 2004. The 2010 IPO on the London Stock Exchange of Mail.ru, a major Russian Internet holding comprising social networking and gaming sites, was 20 times oversubscribed, according to insiders. Skolkovo was raided by anti-corruption agents in April 2013, after which several figureheads on the project were accused of misappropriation of funds. Although officials deny that the investigations were politically motivated, Skolkovo has tumbled down the government’s priority list: This year, the incubator was ordered to cut costs by 20 to 40 percent. “I know five or eight companies who either are leaving or have already left,” said Anton Gladkoborodov, co-founder of Coub, a video-sharing platform and among the most successful companies in Moscow’s nascent tech scene. “If they open the borders and let people have visas, everyone will leave.” “I know quite a few start-ups whose founders have moved to the U.S., to New York, San Francisco,” she said. “Even Ireland — there are programs and incubators there. People are proactively looking for opportunities outside of Russia.” Both Gladkoborodov and Zavrieva are planning their own exits. Coub already has office space in New York City; Channelkit hopes to relocate to the United States toward the end of 2015. And so the dream of a Russian “Silicon Steppe” looks to have died before it even began." Source: foreignpolicy.com

Whole article is too long so i wont post it whole, its anyways half full of anti-Putin propaganda but this part was interesting.