On March 21, the first offsite meeting of the Council on Innovation Activity and Implementation of High Technology (Council on Innovations) takes place in RANEPA

On March 21, the first offsite meeting of the Council on innovation activity and implementation of high technologies (Council on Innovations) took place in RANEPA. 

The purpose of the meeting was to unite the representatives of field-specific ministries, education community and business for enhancing field-specific legislation and intellectual property defence.

During the event, the speeches were given by V.Kononov, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Science and High Technology and Chairman of the Council on Innovations, V.Klimov, Deputy Chairman of Committee on economic policy, innovation development and entrepreneurship of the State Duma, I.Bortnik, AIRR Executive Director, A.Shadrin, Director of the Department of Innovation Development of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, G.Krasnikov, General Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Electronics "Micron" and Co-Chairman of the Council on Innovations, O.Kozlovskaya, Chairman of the Legislative Duma of the Tomsk Region, Head of the AIRR Committee on Legislation, E.Dryganov, Director of the Department of State Scientific, Technical and Innovative Policy of the Ministry of Science of Russia, V.Polischuk, Honorary President of JSC "Russian Telecommunication Network" ROSNET, Deputy Chairman of the Council on Innovations.

At the organizers’ invitation, Y.Fedyukin, Member of ACIG Board, Executive Secretary of the Expert Council on legislative provision of the Russian Federation innovative development under the Committee on economic policy, innovation development and entrepreneurship of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

The meeting agenda included creation of the Council on innovation activities and implementation of high technologies, regional experience of legislative provision of innovation activities under the Committee on science and high technologies of the Russian Federation; introduction of changes to the Federal Law "On the status of Science Town" and "On science and public scientific and technical policy"; Activity Plan of the Council for 2013.

One of the key topics of the meeting, covered in their speeches by A.Shadrin, V,Kononov, V.Klimov was legislative provision of implementation of Strategy of Russian Federation innovation development till 2020.

The experts remarked that the legislation must quickly and efficiently react to the constant changes of the economic community and at the same time remain stable. Legislative provision of the implementation of the Innovation Development Strategy is a constant work aimed at solving the problems of national economy modernization and innovation development.

After considering the results of the broad discussion, the Council on Innovations recommended submitting the issue of legislative provision of the implementation of the Innovation Development Strategy of the Russian Federation till 2020 to the Working Group on legislative innovations in the sphere of innovation policy under the Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.