The Fund "SKOLKOVO", loudly called authorities innovation center, ended the conference Startup Village, whose main goal, according to organizers, is the competition of ideas and start-UPS, which was attended by 4000 companies. The winner was the project of Dmitry Golikov, entitled "Development of innovative drugs on the basis of the signal peptide modulator of disorders of the limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary complex." The incentive amount was 5 million rubles. We are talking about the drug is already named "female viagra".

The decision of the jury, to put it mildly, is puzzling. In our country huge gaping holes in a number of key technological competencies that are critical to the development of the national economy. And, where does not require much effort and huge investment. Need only state approach to business, responsibility and professional look.

In particular, the pipeline system in the Russian housing is in a dangerous condition, but in their native Homeland has bad things to trenchless methods of repair and replacement. Or there is not enough storage capacity for 60 million tonnes of grain, but why not demand and do not develop technologies spiral wound silos, which are experiencing a boom in the world? By the way, the U.S. has developed a machine that can navit from 4 mm steel silos with capacity up to 20 000 tons of grain, and for mere pennies — $ 50 per ton of storage. While the average cost of construction of the elevators at the standard technology of maps $ 200 per ton of storage. And when it is actually gratuitous in comparison with the United States labor force. Such examples are the tens of thousands.

But, as it turned out, SKOLKOVO encourage the development of "female viagra", not even interested in the Western experience of development and dissemination of so-called "little pink pills" Addyi designed to boost the libido of women. The Americans came to the conclusion that these pills are not justified. First, they need to take daily. Second, like most stimulants, the "female viagra" cannot be combined with alcohol and cause severe drowsiness. Thirdly, the ladies after taking the pills it is not recommended to sit behind the wheel. It is hard to believe that the "Russian tablet" would be better.

And in General, did the organizers of the Startup Village, the report from Bloomberg on the spread Addyi in rich America? It turns out that only 200 women in the first three months acquired the recipes for the "pink pill," although during the same period in 1998 500 thousands of men have bought just appeared viagra. The problem is that most women have a powerful mental and emotional barrier to sexual satisfaction with "the unloved partner," said Professor Jennifer Berman. These are the rigid laws of human evolution: civilization would not take place without the love of a woman.

This remark allows to assess the quality of decision-making in modern SKOLKOVO and, as a consequence, the effectiveness of widely publicized Russian "innovation city" in General. Perhaps this is why the President of Fund "SKOLKOVO" Viktor Vekselberg broke phrase: "the faster Russia will be formed a full-fledged environment for the generation and implementation of innovations, and the sooner will disappear the need for development institutions, the better. Development institutions — an intermediate solution contributing to the formation of the market. I'm sure they will serve their term and as support tools a thing of the past. Our task is the formation of an environment that would be self-sufficient and lived by their own laws. Therefore, we would like to have the SKOLKOVO Foundation as a support tool would cease to exist because of its uselessness".

However, the Freudian slip is probably a different context. Mike butcher, an analyst at popular U.S. portal Ttech Tips, spoke about the participation of the Fund "SKOLKOVO" in the recent contest at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, where Russian startups looking for investors in the United States. According to him, "the Russians wanted to escape from the usual agenda, hoping to obtain from 1 to 10 million dollars from the us business angels".

And anyway, "frustration begins to emerge in the technology industry where there is extensive supported by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the SKOLKOVO project, a sort of Russia's answer to Silicon valley, USA — could not largely affect the progress of the tech world," notes Mike butcher. He observes that public money is now dried up. Therefore, SKOLKOVO has developed a cunning strategy of inspiration to a new life of a dying project. Namely, through the new Fund.

According to Mike butcher, "SKOLKOVO ventures" plans to work closely with the three local venture capital funds: I2BF, iTechCapital and Primer Capital, in order through them to access major industrial and strategic customers within the framework of the named program "international expansion". In exchange, the innovation centre will offer entrepreneurs created government money for infrastructure.

These three funds over the next four years will invest approximately $ 50 million each, in 8 — 15 the most successful Russian startups. But this is only the beginning of a new flurry of activity of the center. By 2020, the Fund "SKOLKOVO ventures" plans to attract $ 500 million, mainly from China, Singapore, Hong Kong, and the Houston technology center and, of course, Massachusetts Institute of technology. It will make public the innovation city one of the largest private foundations in Russia. Means of the Russian technological needs will have to forget.

In other words, the heads of "SKOLKOVO" will manage the back-office Foundation and fundraising (external, external to the company resources needed to accomplish tasks — ed.) whereas private partners of the Fund will engage in transactions and investments.

Note that this experience is already tested in Russia. Portal Ttech Tips you can find the juicy details of the national characteristics of the venture (read — risky) investment in a wholly successful domestic companies for the purpose of extracting 50% of the profits as dividends. In fact, banal racketeering in the field of high technologies.

Strange how it turns out: SKOLKOVO was created at the expense of the state budget exclusively for development of technologies that are in demand in Russia. And now the "cream" will collect some private owners, selling the best developments of our engineers abroad. Moreover, placing the case on the conveyor.

"This step can be useful, and even become a priority in other countries, concludes Mike butcher. — But only not in Russia".

Alexei Sitnikov

Source: http://svpressa.ru/society/article/174461/?rss=1

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