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May 31, 2013 01:08 pm GMT

Russia Hopes The Skolkovo Tech City Will Produce Its Great Leap Forward

StartupVillageDuring the height of the Cold War the Soviet Union built up a network of "Naukograd" or "Science Cities". These were state-created clusters of scientists working on technologies that could help it compete with the West, especially in the field of nuclear weapons and space exploration. Those days are of course long gone, but today Russia - though now freed from the days of the old USSR - now faces a new race: how to revive its economy, compete globally in the next industrial revolution of science and technology and wean itself off its reliance on oil and gas.

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