Kremlin picks site for Russian Silicon Valley 20100319 00:20
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A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed "Capital of Silicon Valley"
(Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced that Russia
would build a high-tech hub near Moscow to spur modernization of the economy
and reduce its dependence on oil and gas. The center, designed to develop
five priority sectors -- energy, IT, telecommunications, bio-medical and
atomic technologies -- will be built near Skolkovo, a new private-sector
business school in the Moscow region. ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62H33S20100318
Silicon Valley is the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in
Northern California, United States. The term originally referred to the
region's large number of silicon chip innovators and manufacturers, but
eventually came to refer to all the high-tech businesses in the area; it is
now generally used as a metonym for the high-tech sector. Despite the
development of other high-tech economic centers throughout the United
States, Silicon Valley continues to be the leading high-tech hub because of
its large number of cutting-edge entrepreneurs, engineers and venture
capitalists. Geographically, the Silicon Valley encompases all of the Santa
Clara Valley including the city of San Jose (and adjacent communities), the
southern Peninsula, and the southern East Bay. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley
Russia (pronounced /ˈrʌʃə/ ( listen); Russian: Россия, tr. Rossiya,
pronounced [rɐˈsʲijə] ( listen)), also officially known as the Russian
Federation[7][8] (Russian: Российская Федерация, tr. Rossiyskaya
Federatsiya, pronounced [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈraʦəjə] ( listen)), is a
country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic,
comprising 83 federal subjects. ... At 17,075,400 square kilometres
(6,592,800 sq mi), Russia is by far the largest country in the world,
covering more than a ninth of the Earth's land area. Russia is also the
ninth most populous nation in the world with 142 million people.[1] It
extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning 11
time zones and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
- Can an enterpreneurship hub be decided by any government? My point is of
course not...
- Enterpreneurship growth can be favored... but in no case can it be top
down decided...
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