Science and Technology in Russia
Jul 14, 2004
MOSCOW. (Lyubov Sobolevskaya, RIA Novosti scientific commentator.)
A market of information technologies (IT) is developing in Siberia. Experts have estimated that the volume of the IT market in Siberia was $1 billion in 2002. Its growth in 2003 is estimated at 25-30%. The largest segment of the market (34.2%) is telecommunication services (Internet, IP telephony, organization of corporate networks); 29.6% -- IT-services (consulting, integration, support, training and certification); 13.5% -- software development; and 22.7% -- manufacturing equipment. The share of state orders on the Russian IT market reaches 20% and is second after contracts with the oil and gas industry, which accounts for 25%.
Most of the software developers on the Siberian market cater for a foreign market. It is called offshore programming. This kind of activities has been developing most rapidly. While the software development segment has increased by 51% as compared with 2002, the profit of the companies specializing in offshore programming has, on the average, more than doubled.
The Moscow authorities are drawing up a program of developing science and technology in Moscow in 2005 to 2007. The total amount of allocations from the city budget for financing the program during this period is estimated at 13 billion rubles (about $4.5 billion), which is not less than 1% of all budget spending. The program consists of three sections. The first one, entitled "Advanced Development of Scientific and Technological Activities," envisages the development of research in scientific organizations having schools of their own on a world level. They will be given grants for applied and fundamental research on a contest basis.
The second section is devoted to innovatory activities. It provides for financing the accelerated development of experimental samples of new products and technologies, formation of the appropriate infrastructure and providing personnel for innovatory activities in science and technology. The third section of the program is devoted to applied research and development. "We are going to develop nanotechnologies and find new sources of energy, conduct research in obtaining stem cells, and I think all this will bring tangible economic results to the city," said Vladimir Sister, chairman of the board of the Moscow Committee for Science and Technology.
About 550 organizations have been attracted to carrying out the science and technology development program in 2002-2004.
A market of information technologies (IT) is developing in Siberia. Experts have estimated that the volume of the IT market in Siberia was $1 billion in 2002. Its growth in 2003 is estimated at 25-30%. The largest segment of the market (34.2%) is telecommunication services (Internet, IP telephony, organization of corporate networks); 29.6% -- IT-services (consulting, integration, support, training and certification); 13.5% -- software development; and 22.7% -- manufacturing equipment. The share of state orders on the Russian IT market reaches 20% and is second after contracts with the oil and gas industry, which accounts for 25%.
Most of the software developers on the Siberian market cater for a foreign market. It is called offshore programming. This kind of activities has been developing most rapidly. While the software development segment has increased by 51% as compared with 2002, the profit of the companies specializing in offshore programming has, on the average, more than doubled.
The Moscow authorities are drawing up a program of developing science and technology in Moscow in 2005 to 2007. The total amount of allocations from the city budget for financing the program during this period is estimated at 13 billion rubles (about $4.5 billion), which is not less than 1% of all budget spending. The program consists of three sections. The first one, entitled "Advanced Development of Scientific and Technological Activities," envisages the development of research in scientific organizations having schools of their own on a world level. They will be given grants for applied and fundamental research on a contest basis.
The second section is devoted to innovatory activities. It provides for financing the accelerated development of experimental samples of new products and technologies, formation of the appropriate infrastructure and providing personnel for innovatory activities in science and technology. The third section of the program is devoted to applied research and development. "We are going to develop nanotechnologies and find new sources of energy, conduct research in obtaining stem cells, and I think all this will bring tangible economic results to the city," said Vladimir Sister, chairman of the board of the Moscow Committee for Science and Technology.
About 550 organizations have been attracted to carrying out the science and technology development program in 2002-2004.