MOSCOW, Dec 25 (PRIME-TASS) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev outlined a plan on Friday to promote innovation and research and development, ITAR-TASS reported.
"We can't wait until the market puts everything in place only by means of competition and other market tools," he said at a meeting of the government commission for modernization and technological development. "We should create a situation when it will become unprofitable to work in the old way and use inefficient technology and obsolete equipment."
Medvedev said that spending on innovation in Russia was extremely low.
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