Monday, April 29, 2013

Alferov: The main task - the development of high-tech industry - Reuters

Nobel laureate Jaures Alferov. Archive

NOVOSIBIRSK, April 29 – RIA Novosti, Irina Tkach. The development of high-tech industry, interdisciplinary collaboration, commercialization of science and the creation of conditions for attracting young people to science – the main points of the election program of the presidential candidate of the RAS Academician Jaures Alferov, which he presented at a meeting with scientists from the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok on Monday.

“One of our main tasks is to revive high-tech industry. Now the main problem – the lack of demand in the economy of the scientific results of the country. <...> It is also necessary to create the conditions for young people to build new laboratories,” – said Alferov.

academician noted that the problem posed by the country’s leadership to create, by 2020, 25 million jobs in the high technology sector of the economy, is not just business, but of science and education. “It is infinitely heavy and difficult task, but we can solve it,” – he added.

To this end, according to the academician, it is necessary to create new technologies, superior Western, enhance the role of RAS departments and strengthen interdisciplinary cooperation. “The interdisciplinary nature of the research is dictated by the progress of science. Says Nobel laureate Roger Kronberg:” The creation of modern medicine requires knowledge of quantum theory “, – Alferov said.

According Alferov, Russian Academy of Sciences to prepare young people for the position. “We need to raise the prestige of science. Introduce system of payment for the” result “, not” share “. Solve the housing problem by building enterprise housing on lands under the operational management of the Academy” – he says.

Alferov is one of the candidates for the post of head of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Presidential elections were held on 29 May at the general meeting of the Academy.

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