Felix Blinov, CEO of the RWM Capital Investment Group, Vice President of RGUD, shared his opinion on this issue with Economics and Life:
“In European practice, the integration of business and science is an investment—justified and attractive business story. Student campuses, technical laboratories, and technology parks are being created with the involvement of private capital. Another side of such a partnership is always the state — as a customer, investor or partner. Business participation in such projects always presupposes preferences for it — tax benefits, subsidies, etc.
In Russia, we are now at the beginning of this way. For example, today there is a request for the active development of industrial parks, which ideally involve cooperation between business, government and science. The state actively supervises the development of industrial parks, develops various measures to support and motivate businesses. We have examples of cooperation between business and universities in terms of creating high-tech laboratories based on universities, and some collaborations useful for science.
Therefore, I answer the question of whether it is realistic to achieve co—financing of science in the ratio of 50% from business and 50% from the state, that yes, it is real. However, the effectiveness of such interaction depends, first, on the state: how competently and effectively the system of such partnership builds for all participants
