If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound? In many ways, the question posed in this common expression can also be applied to science and innovation: If an R&D center develops a new technology or discovers a scientific finding in a lab, is it really progress if no one knows about it and is able to bring it to market?
Ensuring that all “trees” of innovation are heard beyond the R&D “forest” is the underlying principle behind technology transfer and knowledge sharing. And now more than ever are these fundamentals critical for supporting growth in emerging innovation economies like Russia’s, where a combination of historical, cultural, linguistic, bureaucratic and geographical factors makes the R&D landscape sometimes difficult to tap for domestic and foreign investors alike.
To read the full, original article click on this link: The Russian Technology Transfer Network: Helping Russian R&D go beyond the lab | Modern Russia
Author: Oleg Luksha
