The Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) of the Skolkovo Foundation in December last year held in the Hypercube at Skolkovo innovation center its final in 2012 meeting, devoted to 2012 results and other important issues of the CSC activity.
Among other issues both Kornberg and the SAC chairman Zhores Alferov raised an issue of more active participation of Skolkovo clusters at the SCS meetings. “They should be interested in our opinions on their projects,” Kornberg stressed. It was also mentioned at the meeting that the SAC wanted to hear a report of the Skolkovo Grant Committee during the next SAC meeting.
Sergei Zhukov, head of the Space and Telecommunications cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation, was the first one among the clusters leaders, who made his presentation. He opened it by an endorsement to the SAC, saying that “the team of scientific experts of his cluster have demonstrated their influence” on a state level. “It became obvious”, he said, “that opinion of the working group of the scientific experts (of the Space cluster) formed the basis of the new state program of reorganization of the rocket and space industrial branch in Russia.
Zhores Alferov, who took a word, talked about the year results for the SAC. Among other he reminded that the Council in 2012 conducted most of its meeting outside Moscow. In March 2013 Alferov said he wants to meet again in the Hypercube, but then, in May he invited everybody to come to Kiev, capital of Ukraine. He said he wanted to develop an active presence of the Skolkovo innovation center in Ukraine, just as it had been done throughout the year in Belarus
He also suggested that next outside the Russian capital meeting of the SAC should be held in St. Petersburg, where he actively works to organize a forum under a working name New Technologies for New Russia. Zhores Alferov also supported the idea to launch so called “Pilot projects”, which are to develop within the Skolkovo framework some scientific projects and R&Ds, which are developed at the Russian Academy of Science and its various research institutes.