Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, who headed the Board of Trustees since its establishment in 2010, re-elected in that capacity. The suggestion was made by the Chairman of the Fund “SKOLKOVO” Arkady Dvorkovich, the members of the Council supported him.
Dmitry Medvedev thanked his colleagues for trust and briefly gave his assessment of what has been accomplished by the Fund over the past ten years and what problems still waiting for solutions. According to him, the technological complex near the Moscow ring road “became a full-fledged city where you can live and work,” every year here is “be a new office of knowledge, training centers, residential quarters, industrial buildings, research laboratories, developing the transport network”.
ten years in infrastructure “SKOLKOVO” was invested by the investors is not less than 130 billion rubles, said Dmitry Medvedev stressed that it is “2.5 times higher than the total investments from the Federal budget, which for this period amounted to 56 billion rubles.” Mentioned and other important for understanding numbers. The revenue projects in 2019 exceeded 100 billion rubles, the growth rate of the previous year – 45 percent. Only taxes into the Federal budget “SKOLKOVO” residents paid in 2019 of about 10 billion and five are contributions made to the extrabudgetary funds.
According to the head of the Board of Trustees, “has achieved great success SKOLKOVO Institute of science and technology, which last year received international recognition and entered the top 100 young universities by one of the ratings”. The rector of Skoltech Alexander Kuleshov confirmed this fact, as that community of alumni Skoltech has already reached thousands of people, and seven out of every ten received a diploma from this University “involved in innovation activities, create their startups, are working in leading companies.”
In the ten years of the existence of the Innovative centre “SKOLKOVO” has proven its financial and intellectual efficiency, companies-participants of the project to successfully develop our technology into the most advanced sectors, summed up Dmitry Medvedev.
Recall that the composition of the Board of Trustees of the SKOLKOVO Foundation includes the General Director of “Mail of Russia” Maxim Akimov, first Deputy head of the government Andrey Belousov, Advisor to the General Director of fsbi “Foundation for assistance to development of small forms of the enterprises in scientifically-technical sphere” Ivan Bortnik, the Minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov, the assistants to the President of Russia Maxim Oreshkin Andrey Fursenko, Minister of economic development Maxim Reshetnikov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeyev, the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Minister of science and higher education Valery Falkov, the Minister for the digital development��Iya, communications and mass communications of the Maksut Shadaev.
