TOMSK, Nov 25 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk industrialists with the participation of regional scientists supply equipment 15 billion rubles worth to the five largest Russian companies in 2019, the governor Sergey Zhvachkin at Tomsk State University (TSU) at research and educational center (REC) presentation to the President of the RAS Alexander Sergeev, RIA Tomsk correspondent reports.
It was previously reported that by 2024 at least 15 world-class research and educational centers (RECs) should be created in the Russian Federation based on the integration of universities, scientific organizations and enterprises in the real sector of the economy. The Government of the Russian Federation included Tomsk among the 20 cities where the conditions for the formation of the REC were formed. Tomsk did not get to the number of "pilots" of the project, along with other applicants it will have to go through competitive selection in 2020. It was also reported that the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences arrived in Tomsk to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS.
Presenting the Tomsk REC project on November 25, Zhvachkin said that the region had already begun to actively participate in import substitution in 2012: "We managed to convince the management of Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Inter RAO, Rosseti, Sibur that the Tomsk region has industrial and, most importantly, scientific and educational potential for creating high-tech equipment".
"According to our estimates, this year Tomsk industrialists will supply the five largest Russian companies with equipment worth more than 15 billion rubles. <...> We would not have achieved these results without active participation in the roadmap to expand the use of Tomsk products and our technologies universities and academic institutions", – the head of the region noted.
In turn, Sergeev noted that it was precisely in the matter of cooperation with the real sector that Russian scientists lag significantly behind their foreign colleagues. This is reflected in investments in science: compared with China, the difference in investment is one in ten. According to him, academic institutions of the Russian Federation currently receive 70% of revenues from the state, and only 30% – from industrial partners."REC – is a triangle: industry, science and education. The main thing in this triangle is the high-tech industry that wants to make a product with maximum added value ... REC in the form in which it is promoted by the leaders of science and education (in the Russian Federation), here (in the Tomsk region) already exists and, perhaps, exists better than others in the country", – Sergeev noted.