Vladimir Kvint speaks at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia

June 20, 2013

KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY – A STRATEGY FOR GETTING AHEAD OF THE CURVE

Russia is weighing a strategy to develop a long-term economic model that shifts emphasis to value-added, knowledge based production, potentially changing the way the economy functions. Can Russia transform its economic model to support more innovation, knowledge-intensive production? How can the economy get there while avoiding major disruptions? What sectors stand to benefit most from such an approach?
Moderators 
Alexey Kovsh, Executive Vice-President, Optogan Group
Leonid Melamed, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Team Drive; Chief Executive Officer, RusnanoMedInvest 

Panellists 
Igor Agamirzyan, Chief Executive Officer, RVC
Abel Aganbegyan, Academician, Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrey Fursenko, Aide to the President of the Russian Federation
Ilya Golubovich, Managing Partner, I2BF Global Ventures
Oleg Goshchansky, Chairman, Managing Partner, KPMG in Russia and the CIS
Alexander Kashirin, Head of Innovation and Strategic Development, Russian Technologies State Corporation
Vladimir Kvint, Head of the Financial Strategy Department, Moscow School of Economics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; foreign member, Russian Academy of Sciences

Georgy Poltavchenko, Governor of St. Petersburg
Vladimir Vasilyev, Rector, St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics 


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