ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN ACADEMICIAN, ARMENIA NEEDS 10 SCIENTISTS AND TWO MILLION DOLLARS TO BECOME PROSPERIOUS COUNTRY IN 5 YEARS
Noyan Tapan
June 29, 2009
YEREVAN, JUNE 29, NOYAN TAPAN. Innovation economy is the only way out
of the global crisis. The scientists participating in the international
conference "The Innovation Way of the Development of Cooperating
Countries: The Strategies and Prospects" came to this conclusion.
The conference opened on June 29. Among its organizers are the
RA National Academy of Sciences (NAS), Yerevan Architectural and
Contruction Institute, "Globelix R" Innovation Academy scientific
research institute (Russia) and Saratov State Technical University.
"Our purpose is to outline the conditions for developing innovation
economy in Armenia and other CIS countries. New conditions require new
approaches, and we can achieve that through successful cooperation,"
President of the RA NAS Radik Martirosian stated.
In the words of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei
Glazev, Armenia needs ten scientists and two million dollars to become
a prosperous country in 5 years. He presented this anticrisis recipe
for Armenia when giving his report.
As a long-term direction, he indicated the complex development of
atomic industry on the basis of the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant. In
his opinion, the atomic industry is now developing in only one
direction: generation of power.
He pointed out the funding of science at higher educational
institutions with the aim of engaging young experts as another
long-term direction.
Along with the creation of national innovation systems, the mechanisms
of the formation of interstate innovation systems were discussed as
well, which is a way of overcoming the global crisis, the scientists
said.
According to the press service of the RA NAS, it was decided to
organize an enlarged conference on innovation economy so that all
CIS countries could participate in it.