With the crisis on going, I was curious about what happened to the project of building a Technopark in Akademgorodok. 'Technopark" is a major project to make the regional innovation economy leading in home and foreign markets of high technology, using Siberian science potential." A model of the building hosting the Novosibirsk Technopark is presented below, and you can find more info about this exciting initiative here.
I was looking forward to the erection of this building, which looks great and would certainly host a good cafeteria. So, I started worrying about its status when I saw the crisis smacking Russia in the face. I was relieved when I found this headline on the web (here):
"NOVOSIBIRSK AND KEMEROVO TO CONTINUE BUILDING THE TECHNOPARKS"
Not only is it a good news in itself, but reading the small script (always a good practice around here) turned out to be even more interesting:
The project of the creation of technoparks in Russia is actually suspended. [...] The concept of technoparks is too far from the initial purpose. [...] The most terrible is that not one region, which participates in the program, has a concept and a business- plan of its technoparks. The regions entirely do not have understanding what technoparks are [...]. In one of the regions in the project of technoparks provided not only the territories for an Expo-center and hotels, but even place for the cemetery.Of nine regions to pretend to the state money, only Novosibirsk and Kemerovo will benefit from it.
OK... So the project is still coming to Novosibirsk! Why did I even worry?
