TASS: SPIEF-2017 – Big challenges: how to stop preparing for the … – TASS

New technologies are replacing old ones, automation and robot-based workforce are replacing human labour, and the world is at the threshold of the fourth industrial revolution. The leading nations have long been investing in technologies of the future and creating consortiums that bring together the government, business and science. In Russia, the tech gap is dragging the economy down, and the country needs a proactive approach to develop technologies and markets of the future.

Experts estimate that Russia is about three to four times behind the leading nations in digitisation of its economy.

To ensure a shift from a resource-based economy towards a high-tech one, in December2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order on the Scientific and Technological Development Strategy of the Russian Federation.

The National Technology Initiative(NTI) was launched with a goal to define new markets and key technologies of the future, and to offer a package of measures supporting development of products and services on those markets.

Key NTItechnologies include digital design and modelling, new materials, additive technologies (3Dprinting), BigData, neurotechnologies, artificial intelligence and control systems, genomics and synthetic biology, bionics, etc. Going forward, their development could take the country to a leading position in the global technology market.

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