"Petersburg Technical Fair. High technology. Innovation. Investments (HiTech) - 2011" exhibition news, 03-Mar-2011
Announce: Annual Multy-Industry Exhibition-Congress Event "Petersburg Technical Fair. High technology. Innovation. Investments (HiTech) - 2011" will be held in Saint Petersburg from 15th to 17th of March.
The fair traditionally will put together in Saint Petersburg leaders ans professionals of manufacturing enterprises, financial institutions, public authorities, business, science acting in industrial sector in Russia, CIS countries and far abroad.
The events of "Petersburg Technical Fair" is held with the support of government of Saint Petersburg, State Apparatus of Russian Federation Presidential Envoy in Northwestern Federal District, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation under the patronage of Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
On 16th of March under the business program of the fair, in the pavilion № 7 of Exhibition Complex "Lenexpo" will be held Petersburg Industrial Congress which is one of the most important discussion platforms in Russia for consideration of real configuration, modernization perspectives of domestic economy.
With account of importance of the questions being planed for discussion and cachet of your organization in industrial sphere the organizers invite you to take part in opening of the Petersburg Industrial Congress and in panel discussion of plenary meeting.
In the process of the plenary meeting "Partnership as a condition of modernization and technological renovation" the following items will bi considered:
- Modernization: major project ore strategy?
One year has passed after the President of Russia declared the course toward modernization. What is done? What problems are being solved under the modernization? What interim period can be taken by modernization: short-term or long-term? Is complex industrial policy needed for carrying the modernization out or it is enough to be limited to project approaches? - Finances and modernization: is everything settled with money?
Russia passed through financial and economic crisis and banks started to credit economy. But are there any money for the modernization? How they can be attracted and received? How to consider risks and control the supportable level of them? What prevent business from investing into the modernization? - "Locomotives" of the modernization: will the rest of the world help us?
It is clear that to realize the modernization of the industry ourselves without developing partnership with foreign colleagues does not seem possible. So what do we need: experience, knowledge, technologies or all of a lump? How to find an interest of a foreign partner? What is the role of the government in development of foreign economic relations and fixing of bright investment climate?