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27 billion roubles for Russian federal nanotechnology programme
Published: Tuesday 10 July 2007
Today, the Russian government announced plans to adopted a nanotechnology industry infrastructure programme for the years to 2010. Science and Education Minister Andrei Fursenko presented a report on this topic and added that Russia ‘should relate all financial instruments and properly build the whole infrastructure of the nanoindustry.’
First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who is in charge of nanotechnology, stated the programme could be adopted in the first quarter of 2008. In his view, there are no doubts about the future benefits of nanotechnologies.
Ivanov believes that the development of nanotechnologies can change the Russian economy radically. He named several sectors where nanotechnologies play a big role from the scientific and commercial points of view, including energy, metallurgy, energy saving technologies, medicine, and of new fibres. ‘It’s like when we created an atomic bomb we did not understand that it would lead to the rapid development of atomic energy and floating nuclear power plants,’ Ivanov concludes.
Follow these links to read the press release (12th July 2007), or the press release (11th July 2007).