May 30, 2017 at 04:18Innopolis and the unhurried pursuit of silicon valleys
It all started, apparently, as usual - with the Big Bang, maybe a little later. When the electrons around the nucleus became 14. Or on the first day of the creation of the world, namely the creation of heaven and earth (but at the moment when the electrons became 14). Or on the second day of the flight around the world of a pasta monster (well, you understand about 14 electrons). Or maybe when the very only electron appeared that is immediately everywhere and nowhere (but at least fourteen times around a single nucleus). At that moment, silicon appeared in the world. Which was first called silicon in the 19th century, then in Russia it gained a strong ancient Greek nickname (in Russian, “silicon” - cliff, mountain). And a century later it became the basis for semiconductor microcircuits and silicone and gave birth to two valleys in California. One - purely silicon (silicon), in Russia called for differentiation Silicon.
In the middle of the 20th century, due to scientific and technological progress, the foresight of Stanford University leadership, the availability of its own land and the testament of Lelan Stanford, as well as some other factors, Silicon Valley near the city of San Francisco (Palo Alto) became the flagship of technological development in the world. Now, in every state, if they create some kind of industrial park, then they immediately proudly call it the second silicon valley. Therefore, by the XXI century, the second silicon valleys, there are already about a hundred. The last of them, with the filing of Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, also Kremnievaya, was born in 2015 near Kazan.
Source: centralandwolfe.com. Silicon Valley - Original
The main, but not the main part of the article is devoted specifically to Innopolis, however, first we will go through each more or less significant second Silicon Valley, so that later there is something to compare with.
In the 1970s, many companies on the Japanese island of Kyushu began to open enterprises for the production of silicon semiconductor devices. Since then, the island is considered the main industry of production of electronics, since then the island is called silicon. The economic basis is the prefectures of Fukuoka, Nagasaki and Kumamoto. Among the well-known companies of the island are Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Sony, Kuyshu Electric, and anyway all the famous Japanese brands. However, it is impossible to fully consider Kyushu as an analog of silicon valley. In industrial terms, all this is so. But the business center of Japan is Tokyo, and unlike Google, the brain centers of most Kyushu technology companies are located outside the island, therefore Kyushu is deprived of its independence, ideology and some kind of identity.
Around the same time, Kyushu begins to develop nearby Taiwan. Despite the martial law, which lasted half a century, the conflict with mainland China, the island during this time was able to become one of the “Four Asian Tigers” , which also includes South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. Taiwan's progress is impressive. Until the 70s, only agriculture, textiles and other cheap industries developed on the island. By the 70s, pirate activity was growing rapidly, where it is possible, for example, in the production of expensive textbooks in various disciplines. By the 80s, textbooks and the rest had become licensed. And by the 90s, Taiwan was already producing computer equipment with might and main. Japanese culture had a very serious impact on the island, because Taiwan was Japanese for a long time before World War II.
Source: koreaittimes.com
Japan was not without Singapore’s participation either. True, it was very short-lived, but how spectacular! During World War II, the British lost the battle for Singapore, as they expected attacks by the Japanese from the sea, and those, being a sea power, marched to the island by land. Apparently, the leadership of Singapore, first of all, the legendary Lee Kuan Yew, was very surprised and inspired, and the economic breakthrough in the post-war decades was also unexpected for everyone. Lee Kuan Yumanaged to give the island investment attractiveness, reducing corruption to zero and almost personally helping to establish the production of each transnational corporation (TNC) in the territory. As a result, Singapore is a high-tech city, a production leader in everything. Large investment center. The economic miracle of the 20th century. Another silicon island.
If the giants of this silicon valley choose the territory of your one-room apartment to organize production, you become a silicon branch. Of you, of course, they will call the next second valley, you will receive a powerful charge from the investment rivers, but there is nothing independent in this feat, except that you managed to draw attention to your odnushka. But this happened only because you were chosen. You are elected, Neo, TNK is elected to become the next branch in the matrix. The same trick has gone with Ireland, but not quite. The government (even under Margaret Thatcher) consistently reduced corporate income tax, bringing it to the lowest level in Europe (12.5%), gaining interest from US corporations. It is strange, of course, that the same French, for example, at a rate of 30%, they see no economic feasibility in reducing tax (in the treasury of Ireland, the share of income from such taxes is 15%, in France - only 5%). But not only did the “Celtic Tiger” manage to become a “silicon island,” he also used these investments extremely profitably, directing the proceeds to all kinds of support from local IT developers. Therefore, Ireland now ranks first in Europe in software development. There are two secrets to success for butterscotch IT companies:
Denmark-Sweden
Source: mediconvalley.com
The Medicon Valley is geographically not a valley at all, but the Danish island of Zealand and a suburb of Swedish Malmo on the Scandinavian Peninsula, separated by the Sound of the Sound. In 1983, the IDEON Science Park was formed, to which six more were added later. Parks specializes in biomedical technology. In total, there are about 300 companies in the valley, including the Danish medical giant Novo Nordisk, the king’s main taxpayer, the public pharmaceutical company Genmab, LEO Pharma, better known in Russia, and something else Swedish (less known, at the end you will understand why). The maximum companies have up to 50 people, so they are easily managed. In total, more than 3 million people live in the valley, of which 40 thousand are scientists, 150 thousand students (studying at 14 medical universities). Valley is a regular supplier of Nobel laureates. But the main feature for which the valley is called an unofficial state is the ideology of personal medicine. Since 1998, each employee of the valley has been striving to find an individual approach to any patient, since according to studies, in 30% of cases universal recipes against diseases such as cancer and diabetes do not work.
Fun fact. Denmark with its more loyal labor and tax laws is pulling a blanket over itself. It turns out that the Swedish part of the population of the valley leaves for work in the morning in Denmark, and in the evening returns to his home. Such a Swedish suburbs. And most likely, this is the reason for the prevalence of Danish brands in the valley - in Sweden it is convenient to live, not work
Once in the XII century, another Indian ruler got lost in the forest, stumbled upon a village and spent the night there. The woman he stayed with, out of respect, fed him the most precious thing she had - boiled beans. The ruler out of respect called this place - “the village of boiled beans” - Bengaluru (but quite possibly, it was not so and even earlier).
Once in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational corporation located in Bangalore. But nothing followed, and Texas was involved in silicon Bangalore unless its pioneers, perhaps to the same extent as boiled beans are associated with the name of the city.
IT companies went here just in the midst of the dot-com crisis2001 year. Apparently, this was facilitated by cheap labor and some English-speaking population, well, the same Texas (by the way, the rival Palo Alto with its silicon hills in Austin). Over the year, their number increased from almost zero to three hundred, among which the research centers Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco, research centers Google, Microsoft, and many others. And this despite the lack of stable electricity, roads and the airport in the city. Now Bangalore is a full-fledged silicon branch. In IT-districts, life is quite decent and European; slums, garbage and hunger immediately begin outside their borders. A typical city of contrasts, unlike Dublin or Singapore.
Silicon science town Zhongguancun is located in one of the most densely populated areas of Beijing - Haidian (3,200,000 people in 2010). In 1980, out of more than a billion Chinese, one was found - Chen Chunxian - who went against and forward the system. He then opened back in Zhongguancun street (well, as a “street” - there would be such a “street” to Siberia) the first (!) Private innovative enterprise “Service for Support of Advanced Technologies”. Despite the fact that the vector of China’s policy has just changed from a totalitarian “special path” to a socialist market economy, Chunxiang has been mercilessly criticized (the old unkind “where you go, you need more — sit and don’t hang out” is spread not only in Russia). However, the Communist Party Central Committee, which took a new course, supported the initiative. Immediately a flurry of applications began,
Then a technopark was built, which received the same name with the street. In 2007, there were more than 22 thousand high-tech enterprises in which about a million people worked, bringing in more than $ 200 billion of total revenue. Currently, there are branches in Zhongguancong:
- 43 of the 500 largest companies in the world;
- 4 out of 10 software companies;
- 23 transnational corporations;
- 20 Chinese companies participating in the NASDAQ list (Baidu, Sohu, Sina, etc.).
Moreover, the total share of local firms is more than 59% (113 firms). And their contribution to high-tech development is commensurate with the world (first of all, the Fonder and Legends companies).
Zhongguancun Technology Park has sectors with all sectors: energy and the environment, innovative materials, digital technology, the aerospace industry, and biomedicine. There is also the so-called startup village Innoway, which consists of a number of (some justifiably think of as a bubble) incubators promoting startups.
Big (small) five
The big five European scientific and technical centers behave modestly compared with the above, on the one hand modestly, on the other - each claims to be the European Silicon Valley (they are politely silent about Sweden and Denmark). Let's go through them briefly.
Source: twizz.ru. Euro five - British left, Spain-Italy on the backs
Cambridge Science Park (UK) - created in 1973. The owner of the territory is Trinity College, many companies come from Cambridge University and are more or less controlled by it or actively cooperate. Small and medium high-tech firms provide 20% of the employment in the city. In the park, as in the whole of Cambridge, it is forbidden to play tennis, they are also proud of (who like, of course) their first transgender mayor.
Sophia Antipolis (Antibes-Valbonne, France) - the technology park was established in 1970-1984. Sofia is the wife of Senator Lafite, the founder of the park. There are a number of higher education institutions, the headquarters of the W3C World Wide Web Consortium, and more than 40 companies.
Saxon Silicon Valley (Dresden, Germany) - all the same, only discipline and the Germans.
Technoparks of Costa del Sol (Malaga, Spain) and Catania (Italy) - the same as in Germany, only warmth and tourism in the form of a competing (and as a result relaxing even scientific staff) field of activity.
Actually, these technoparks did not achieve any outstanding results, therefore the Big Five, if viewed exclusively from the “silicon” side, does not look so big.
Source: izent.ru
The following fact can serve as the state’s interest in initiating Innopolis. 26 billion rubles were spent on the construction of the whole city. The ill-fated and bottomless football Zenit arena. Until today, it has already accumulated 50 billion rubles of expenses. The cost of science in Russia is at least 3 times less than that of defense (1 versus 3 trillion rubles, respectively). It is a shame to compare with the USA and China (there, both categories are estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars). Nevertheless, Innopolis is alive, and seems to live. And Innopolis created the state for it-business, first of all, - they say, "the conditions are created, and then you yourself."
Are they created? Here are a few facts.
As one of the IT experts put it, “Innopolis is the best thing that has happened with education and science in Russia over the past 25 years.” Two years for an IT city is a really short time. There was not even the first university graduation. Who knows, maybe some of these students with burning eyes will explode in such a way that no mustiness and corruption can keep up with them? And Innopolis will be pulled into the silicon future, as the Irish, Singaporeans and Taiwanese did in their time. Despite all the facts, benefits and cuts.
UPD: after writing the article, I managed to talk with the author of the words “Innopolis - the best event in 25 years”. This is a researcher at the university, who became one of the first residents of the city. Three questions were asked:
Honestly - I do not believe in the optimism of a resident of Innopolis. Do we live in Russia? And not such projects perished. I can’t believe it - but let him and those students be right. They urgently need to become right.
In the middle of the 20th century, due to scientific and technological progress, the foresight of Stanford University leadership, the availability of its own land and the testament of Lelan Stanford, as well as some other factors, Silicon Valley near the city of San Francisco (Palo Alto) became the flagship of technological development in the world. Now, in every state, if they create some kind of industrial park, then they immediately proudly call it the second silicon valley. Therefore, by the XXI century, the second silicon valleys, there are already about a hundred. The last of them, with the filing of Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, also Kremnievaya, was born in 2015 near Kazan.
Source: centralandwolfe.com. Silicon Valley - Original
The main, but not the main part of the article is devoted specifically to Innopolis, however, first we will go through each more or less significant second Silicon Valley, so that later there is something to compare with.
Silicon Islands. Japan
In the 1970s, many companies on the Japanese island of Kyushu began to open enterprises for the production of silicon semiconductor devices. Since then, the island is considered the main industry of production of electronics, since then the island is called silicon. The economic basis is the prefectures of Fukuoka, Nagasaki and Kumamoto. Among the well-known companies of the island are Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Sony, Kuyshu Electric, and anyway all the famous Japanese brands. However, it is impossible to fully consider Kyushu as an analog of silicon valley. In industrial terms, all this is so. But the business center of Japan is Tokyo, and unlike Google, the brain centers of most Kyushu technology companies are located outside the island, therefore Kyushu is deprived of its independence, ideology and some kind of identity.
Taiwan
Around the same time, Kyushu begins to develop nearby Taiwan. Despite the martial law, which lasted half a century, the conflict with mainland China, the island during this time was able to become one of the “Four Asian Tigers” , which also includes South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. Taiwan's progress is impressive. Until the 70s, only agriculture, textiles and other cheap industries developed on the island. By the 70s, pirate activity was growing rapidly, where it is possible, for example, in the production of expensive textbooks in various disciplines. By the 80s, textbooks and the rest had become licensed. And by the 90s, Taiwan was already producing computer equipment with might and main. Japanese culture had a very serious impact on the island, because Taiwan was Japanese for a long time before World War II.
Singapore
Source: koreaittimes.com
Japan was not without Singapore’s participation either. True, it was very short-lived, but how spectacular! During World War II, the British lost the battle for Singapore, as they expected attacks by the Japanese from the sea, and those, being a sea power, marched to the island by land. Apparently, the leadership of Singapore, first of all, the legendary Lee Kuan Yew, was very surprised and inspired, and the economic breakthrough in the post-war decades was also unexpected for everyone. Lee Kuan Yumanaged to give the island investment attractiveness, reducing corruption to zero and almost personally helping to establish the production of each transnational corporation (TNC) in the territory. As a result, Singapore is a high-tech city, a production leader in everything. Large investment center. The economic miracle of the 20th century. Another silicon island.
Ireland
If the giants of this silicon valley choose the territory of your one-room apartment to organize production, you become a silicon branch. Of you, of course, they will call the next second valley, you will receive a powerful charge from the investment rivers, but there is nothing independent in this feat, except that you managed to draw attention to your odnushka. But this happened only because you were chosen. You are elected, Neo, TNK is elected to become the next branch in the matrix. The same trick has gone with Ireland, but not quite. The government (even under Margaret Thatcher) consistently reduced corporate income tax, bringing it to the lowest level in Europe (12.5%), gaining interest from US corporations. It is strange, of course, that the same French, for example, at a rate of 30%, they see no economic feasibility in reducing tax (in the treasury of Ireland, the share of income from such taxes is 15%, in France - only 5%). But not only did the “Celtic Tiger” manage to become a “silicon island,” he also used these investments extremely profitably, directing the proceeds to all kinds of support from local IT developers. Therefore, Ireland now ranks first in Europe in software development. There are two secrets to success for butterscotch IT companies:
- They are completing for large players those decisions that the latter do not reach their hands. It turns out an interesting symbiosis. And the giants are not against such an improvement in their product, and Irish startups get a guaranteed influx of customers.
- The Irish do not want much success. “It’s convenient for us to be small - it’s easier to be flexible, open to customers, easier to understand and offer what they really need,” they say. At the same time, there is no competition, everyone is busy with their own niche, and to add good benefits for small and medium-sized businesses - Irish developers live wonderful.
Denmark-Sweden
Source: mediconvalley.com
The Medicon Valley is geographically not a valley at all, but the Danish island of Zealand and a suburb of Swedish Malmo on the Scandinavian Peninsula, separated by the Sound of the Sound. In 1983, the IDEON Science Park was formed, to which six more were added later. Parks specializes in biomedical technology. In total, there are about 300 companies in the valley, including the Danish medical giant Novo Nordisk, the king’s main taxpayer, the public pharmaceutical company Genmab, LEO Pharma, better known in Russia, and something else Swedish (less known, at the end you will understand why). The maximum companies have up to 50 people, so they are easily managed. In total, more than 3 million people live in the valley, of which 40 thousand are scientists, 150 thousand students (studying at 14 medical universities). Valley is a regular supplier of Nobel laureates. But the main feature for which the valley is called an unofficial state is the ideology of personal medicine. Since 1998, each employee of the valley has been striving to find an individual approach to any patient, since according to studies, in 30% of cases universal recipes against diseases such as cancer and diabetes do not work.
Fun fact. Denmark with its more loyal labor and tax laws is pulling a blanket over itself. It turns out that the Swedish part of the population of the valley leaves for work in the morning in Denmark, and in the evening returns to his home. Such a Swedish suburbs. And most likely, this is the reason for the prevalence of Danish brands in the valley - in Sweden it is convenient to live, not work
India
Once in the XII century, another Indian ruler got lost in the forest, stumbled upon a village and spent the night there. The woman he stayed with, out of respect, fed him the most precious thing she had - boiled beans. The ruler out of respect called this place - “the village of boiled beans” - Bengaluru (but quite possibly, it was not so and even earlier).
Once in 1985, Texas Instruments became the first multinational corporation located in Bangalore. But nothing followed, and Texas was involved in silicon Bangalore unless its pioneers, perhaps to the same extent as boiled beans are associated with the name of the city.
IT companies went here just in the midst of the dot-com crisis2001 year. Apparently, this was facilitated by cheap labor and some English-speaking population, well, the same Texas (by the way, the rival Palo Alto with its silicon hills in Austin). Over the year, their number increased from almost zero to three hundred, among which the research centers Sun Microsystems, Intel, Cisco, research centers Google, Microsoft, and many others. And this despite the lack of stable electricity, roads and the airport in the city. Now Bangalore is a full-fledged silicon branch. In IT-districts, life is quite decent and European; slums, garbage and hunger immediately begin outside their borders. A typical city of contrasts, unlike Dublin or Singapore.
China
Silicon science town Zhongguancun is located in one of the most densely populated areas of Beijing - Haidian (3,200,000 people in 2010). In 1980, out of more than a billion Chinese, one was found - Chen Chunxian - who went against and forward the system. He then opened back in Zhongguancun street (well, as a “street” - there would be such a “street” to Siberia) the first (!) Private innovative enterprise “Service for Support of Advanced Technologies”. Despite the fact that the vector of China’s policy has just changed from a totalitarian “special path” to a socialist market economy, Chunxiang has been mercilessly criticized (the old unkind “where you go, you need more — sit and don’t hang out” is spread not only in Russia). However, the Communist Party Central Committee, which took a new course, supported the initiative. Immediately a flurry of applications began,
Then a technopark was built, which received the same name with the street. In 2007, there were more than 22 thousand high-tech enterprises in which about a million people worked, bringing in more than $ 200 billion of total revenue. Currently, there are branches in Zhongguancong:
- 43 of the 500 largest companies in the world;
- 4 out of 10 software companies;
- 23 transnational corporations;
- 20 Chinese companies participating in the NASDAQ list (Baidu, Sohu, Sina, etc.).
Moreover, the total share of local firms is more than 59% (113 firms). And their contribution to high-tech development is commensurate with the world (first of all, the Fonder and Legends companies).
Zhongguancun Technology Park has sectors with all sectors: energy and the environment, innovative materials, digital technology, the aerospace industry, and biomedicine. There is also the so-called startup village Innoway, which consists of a number of (some justifiably think of as a bubble) incubators promoting startups.
Big (small) five
The big five European scientific and technical centers behave modestly compared with the above, on the one hand modestly, on the other - each claims to be the European Silicon Valley (they are politely silent about Sweden and Denmark). Let's go through them briefly.
Source: twizz.ru. Euro five - British left, Spain-Italy on the backs
Cambridge Science Park (UK) - created in 1973. The owner of the territory is Trinity College, many companies come from Cambridge University and are more or less controlled by it or actively cooperate. Small and medium high-tech firms provide 20% of the employment in the city. In the park, as in the whole of Cambridge, it is forbidden to play tennis, they are also proud of (who like, of course) their first transgender mayor.
Sophia Antipolis (Antibes-Valbonne, France) - the technology park was established in 1970-1984. Sofia is the wife of Senator Lafite, the founder of the park. There are a number of higher education institutions, the headquarters of the W3C World Wide Web Consortium, and more than 40 companies.
Saxon Silicon Valley (Dresden, Germany) - all the same, only discipline and the Germans.
Technoparks of Costa del Sol (Malaga, Spain) and Catania (Italy) - the same as in Germany, only warmth and tourism in the form of a competing (and as a result relaxing even scientific staff) field of activity.
Actually, these technoparks did not achieve any outstanding results, therefore the Big Five, if viewed exclusively from the “silicon” side, does not look so big.
What about Innopolis? View from the outside
Source: izent.ru
The following fact can serve as the state’s interest in initiating Innopolis. 26 billion rubles were spent on the construction of the whole city. The ill-fated and bottomless football Zenit arena. Until today, it has already accumulated 50 billion rubles of expenses. The cost of science in Russia is at least 3 times less than that of defense (1 versus 3 trillion rubles, respectively). It is a shame to compare with the USA and China (there, both categories are estimated at hundreds of billions of dollars). Nevertheless, Innopolis is alive, and seems to live. And Innopolis created the state for it-business, first of all, - they say, "the conditions are created, and then you yourself."
Are they created? Here are a few facts.
- There are frankly not enough specialists in the city. For them, the city launched a free specialized training program with further employment in resident companies. But the trouble is that there are practically no such companies in the city either. Unless Sberteh is the main partner of the IT city project. Currently, Sbertech Innopolis employs a little more than 180 employees. The plans bring them to 500. About the plans separately. It also appears here: out of the declared 150 thousand inhabitants, 2 thousand are barely recruited in 2 years (a little more than 100 plus 700 officially registered and already occupied apartments, plus students and visiting employees from neighboring places, mainly Kazan, officially registered). By the way, here are the semi-annual results of the program- 9000 applications were submitted, 140 candidates were selected, of which 85% got a job. Not enough. And all because of the lack of demand in the city.
- IT companies are not drawn to the city - this can be seen. It seems as though eyeing a new phenomenon. Of the residents, 40 companies are currently listed. But this is in words, the actual amount can only be reported by the inhabitants of Habr and Innopolis at a time. Among the forty, the main Internet giant of Russia, Yandex, is also indicated. Yandex announced the opening of the office back in June 2016.
However, after two months, the office was never opened. Yandex did not receive the tax benefits promised to all IT companies, but out of respect said that it was pleased even with a discount on the rental of premises. The office is still not officially known. He is not on the map, he is not in the list of offices on the corresponding page. Who saw the Yandex office in Innopolis, please inform. But its absence is more likely logical, because: there are no tax benefits, there is an office in Kazan nearby and everything is still damp there. Why go Yandex to Innopolis? There is no need so far. - The first mayor of Innopolis, Egor Ivanov, resigned two years later. Not from a good life for sure. He simply motivated his decision - he returns home, to Moscow. No reason or hint.
- Over the past few months Innopolis has been indulging in news only from local Tatarstan publications. However, major events are among them: the acquisition by Qiwi group of a resident of Innopolis, and the planned investments of Tinkoff Bank, and the investment of a Chinese investor in a Russian rival Android. One way or another, all the news is assurances of a happy future. In Russia they know how to certify, as well as stamp numerous reports on a successful and bright past. By the way, about the bright past - Innopolis company and Innopolis University recently stopped blogging on Habré. Apparently, the prices are embarrassing (and again, by the way, the prices are really wild, available only to selected companies). The only resources where Innopolis is stably active are social networks (but this is mostly fun).
- Among the already accomplished achievements of Innopolis are electric buses, drones in the registry office, bringing rings to the spouses, numerous robots playing football, and pride, most often mentioned on the network, are telegram bots and concierge service. Most deal with infrastructure or education, but again not with business.
- For education, perhaps, you can put a solid plus. Judging by the feedback of students and teachers, this area is really developing now. Students enthusiastically respond to all resources and are immersed in the educational process 16 hours a day. And it is students and teachers who inspire hope that everything will really be fine.
As one of the IT experts put it, “Innopolis is the best thing that has happened with education and science in Russia over the past 25 years.” Two years for an IT city is a really short time. There was not even the first university graduation. Who knows, maybe some of these students with burning eyes will explode in such a way that no mustiness and corruption can keep up with them? And Innopolis will be pulled into the silicon future, as the Irish, Singaporeans and Taiwanese did in their time. Despite all the facts, benefits and cuts.
UPD: after writing the article, I managed to talk with the author of the words “Innopolis - the best event in 25 years”. This is a researcher at the university, who became one of the first residents of the city. Three questions were asked:
- Has his opinion on the status of the event changed? No, it has not changed, an even greater global confidence was added to it, since several encouraging events followed: for example, in the scientific and technical environment of the city, so to speak, the sister city of Skolkovo, instead of the still not accustomed British professor Edward Crowley, compatriot Alexander Kuleshov was appointed .
- Can Innopolis catch up with at least some second-class silicon valley and when? The resident is confident that for 5 years Innopolis will be among the leaders among projects created from scratch - like Sofia-Antipolis. If we take into account all the indicators, such as: university, infrastructure and investments, then it will take longer, but it will have to. Well, Silicon Valley was and will be unique in its own way.
- Is there Yandex in Innopolis and which IT company is really active in the city? Yandex is (and this is still surprising - author's comment). Of the large and active ones - the aforementioned Sberteh, Acronis (data protection), ICL (manufacturer of computer equipment), Cognitive Technologies (software developer).
Honestly - I do not believe in the optimism of a resident of Innopolis. Do we live in Russia? And not such projects perished. I can’t believe it - but let him and those students be right. They urgently need to become right.