1. From Phileas Fogg to Yuri Gagarin:... Prologue: “ … Has the world grown smaller? Certainly, returned Ralph. I agree with Mr. Fogg. The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago. … You have a strange way, Ralph, of proving that the world has grown smaller. So, because you can go round it in three months. In eighty days, interrupted Phileas Fogg. … It's absurd! cried Stuart, who was beginning to be annoyed at the persistency of his friend.” Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days, 1873 © Kari Liuhto 27.10.2011, Moscow

2. Russia in the 1970- 1990s: Russia’s industrial competitiveness deteriorates Russia in this millenium: How to turn Russia more innovative ? Russia tomorrow: two major paths in modernisation ? ? State-led, military- oriented reform vs Private firm dominated, civil society- oriented reform Russia’s modernisation path(s)

3. Modernisation is not self-evident path for Russia, though it would be highly needed Source: Liuhto 2009

4. Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (1) Source: Prazdnichnykh & Liuhto, PEI 2010

5. Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (2)

6. Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (3)

7. Companies in Fortune Global 500Companies in top 1,000 R&D investors 2005200920052009 Brazil 3 6 3 3 Russia 3 8 2 1 India 5 7 1 12 China 16 37 3 5 Europe *175180294333 USA176140423378 * Europe excluding Russia Sources: DIUS (2009); Fortune (2009) Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (4)

8. Source: Prazdnichnykh & Liuhto, PEI 2010 Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (5)

9. Source: Prazdnichnykh & Liuhto, PEI 2010 Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (6)

10. Source: Prazdnichnykh & Liuhto, PEI 2010 Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (7)

11. Source: Prazdnichnykh & Liuhto, PEI 2010 Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (8)

12. Source: Prazdnichnykh & Liuhto, PEI 2010 Finland is R&D superpower in industrial cooperation with Russia Russia’s innovation / R&D activity today (9)

13. INTER-ENTERPRISE JOINT INNOVATION ACTIVITY * Flagship: Nokia in Skolkovo INNOVATION FINANCE * TEKES-FASIE * Rusnano-Finnish Industry Investment Ltd NETWORKING * FinNode Russia (match making) * Technopolis (technopark) * Finnish-Russian Innovation Centre (regional cooperation) PR- ACTIVITIES * EU-Russia Innovation Forum (mainly bilateral annual event - third time in June 2011) JOINT RESEARCH * Academy of Finland and the Russian Foundation for Humanities (2006-2009) * Various universities and their Russia-units EXCHANGE OF RESEARCHERS * Various universities Finnish-Russian innovation cooperation: Some examples

14. (1) Establish a Joint EU-Russia Innovation Centre both in Russia and in the EU. (2) Support the internationalization of innovations. (3) Turn the innovations conducted in the military sector into civilian use. (4) Improve intellectual property rights (IPR) and the investment climate. (5) Institutional innovations are needed. (6) Design a service innovation policy. Some policy considerations based on Finnish-Russian cooperation (1)

15. ( 7) Enhance management innovations. ( 8) Create innovation competition. ( 9) Establish innovation journalism to share best practices. (10) Do not concentrate on radical innovations. (11) Teach creativity and entrepreneurship in universities. (12) Avoid political stagnation. Some policy considerations based on Finnish-Russian cooperation (2)

16. From Phileas Fogg to Yuri Gagarin – but what after Gagarin ? Epilogue: 50 years ago, the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, flew around the world in less than two hours. Lesson: reaching “the impossible” is possible but it takes time and requires foreign cooperation / competition.