Siberia - the next Silicon Valley
The April issue of Fortune magazine published a large article on Novosibirsk and Akademgorodok. For Americans, the Siberian megalopolis looks utterly exotic: here skateboarders ride around the statue of Lenin, and high technologies are created by the children of communists and revolutionaries. However, the third largest city in Russia seriously claims to be another global high-tech capital.
American journalists visited Akademgorodok , which is located in a forest near Novosibirsk. There, on the model of Silicon Valley, all the conditions for the development of high-tech start-ups are created.
Of course, the Siberian "Silicon Taiga" is still far from overseas scales: last year the turnover of private business here did not exceed $ 150 million, but this figure means a 15-fold increase compared with a period of a decade ago. The number of new startups is increasing by 15% per year.
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In Akademgorodok, there are divisions of Intel and IBM, and one of the local IT companies even creates web portals for American celebrities. Who could have imagined this fifty years ago, when Nikita Khrushchev began the implementation of this unique project - the construction of a city in Siberia, completely populated by scientists?
The transformation of Novosibirsk into a high-tech capital is supported by the current Russian President Vladimir Putin. After visiting India (the center of world IT outsourcing), he came to the Novosibirsk Academgorodok and approved the construction of a new business district for technology startups. The state allocated $ 100 million for this project worth $ 650 million.
Russia has every opportunity to repeat the success of India in the global IT market, because it is not inferior to it in terms of the number of programmers. Universities of both countries produce the same, 200 thousand specialists a year, although the population of Russia is five times smaller. At the same time, Russia is one of the world leaders in terms of general scientific and technological potential, and local specialists, albeit insufficiently disciplined and polite by Western standards, but capable of solving tasks that are beyond the strength of anyone else in the world.
The software outsourcing industry brings Russia $ 1.8 billion a year, this is the third figure in the world after China and India. The IT industry in Russia occupies a place that previously belonged to academic science. Programmers and computer scientists now bring the country no less good than physicists and chemists. It is not surprising that private business flourishes in the territory of the once regime scientific objects.
Among the representatives of the private computer business, the pioneer in Academgorodok was the company “Novosoft”, which opened in 1992 in partnership with IBM. Intel's representative office appeared in Akademgorodok in 2004: now there are two hundred software engineers working there, receiving a salary five times less than that of their American colleagues.
Another success story is Axmor Software , a subsidiary of Novosofta, which works on Web 2.0 projects and successfully sells them to corporate customers in the western market. Director of the company Pavel Toponogov in just a few years made $ 30 thousand of the initial investment in a million business.
Siberia has ceased to be an isolated region and is now firmly embedded in the globalized global economy. Few people know that founded in 1893, Novosibirsk in Soviet times set a world record for population growth. The distant cold land continues to amaze the world.
via Fortune Magazine
American journalists visited Akademgorodok , which is located in a forest near Novosibirsk. There, on the model of Silicon Valley, all the conditions for the development of high-tech start-ups are created.
Of course, the Siberian "Silicon Taiga" is still far from overseas scales: last year the turnover of private business here did not exceed $ 150 million, but this figure means a 15-fold increase compared with a period of a decade ago. The number of new startups is increasing by 15% per year.
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In Akademgorodok, there are divisions of Intel and IBM, and one of the local IT companies even creates web portals for American celebrities. Who could have imagined this fifty years ago, when Nikita Khrushchev began the implementation of this unique project - the construction of a city in Siberia, completely populated by scientists?
The transformation of Novosibirsk into a high-tech capital is supported by the current Russian President Vladimir Putin. After visiting India (the center of world IT outsourcing), he came to the Novosibirsk Academgorodok and approved the construction of a new business district for technology startups. The state allocated $ 100 million for this project worth $ 650 million.
Russia has every opportunity to repeat the success of India in the global IT market, because it is not inferior to it in terms of the number of programmers. Universities of both countries produce the same, 200 thousand specialists a year, although the population of Russia is five times smaller. At the same time, Russia is one of the world leaders in terms of general scientific and technological potential, and local specialists, albeit insufficiently disciplined and polite by Western standards, but capable of solving tasks that are beyond the strength of anyone else in the world.
The software outsourcing industry brings Russia $ 1.8 billion a year, this is the third figure in the world after China and India. The IT industry in Russia occupies a place that previously belonged to academic science. Programmers and computer scientists now bring the country no less good than physicists and chemists. It is not surprising that private business flourishes in the territory of the once regime scientific objects.
Among the representatives of the private computer business, the pioneer in Academgorodok was the company “Novosoft”, which opened in 1992 in partnership with IBM. Intel's representative office appeared in Akademgorodok in 2004: now there are two hundred software engineers working there, receiving a salary five times less than that of their American colleagues.
Another success story is Axmor Software , a subsidiary of Novosofta, which works on Web 2.0 projects and successfully sells them to corporate customers in the western market. Director of the company Pavel Toponogov in just a few years made $ 30 thousand of the initial investment in a million business.
Siberia has ceased to be an isolated region and is now firmly embedded in the globalized global economy. Few people know that founded in 1893, Novosibirsk in Soviet times set a world record for population growth. The distant cold land continues to amaze the world.
via Fortune Magazine
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