Swiss Oerlicon and Sulzer AG in Skolkovo - Russian Silicon Valley

Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg, intends to attract Swiss companies to participate in innovative projects Skolkovo, news agency Bloomberg reported.

Discussions with engineering company Oerlicon have begun (Vekselberg owns 39% of its shares). "We want the world's leading technology leaders built their own centers of research and development in Skolkovo" - said Vekselberg.

In his words, Russia can also offer the University of Zurich, to participate in the project.
 

However, the Swiss engineering company Sulzer AG (Vekselberg owns 31% of its shares) was also invited to participate in the project.It was reported in Renova - a company of Viktor Vekselberg.  

Russian-Swiss economic relations will be the main topic of talks during the visit of the President of Switzerland Doris Leuthard in Russia in August this year.
 

Plans to create an ultramodern scientific and technological complex for the development and commercialization of new technologies, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced in February. The new Innovation Center, he said, should become the Russian equivalent of the American Silicon Valley, a kind of prototype of the city of the future, which should be the largest testing ground for new economic policy. Early last week the head of state, introduced in the State Duma a draft of federal law "On the Innovation Centre Skolkovo, which is aimed at ensuring conditions for the establishment and operation of the center.

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