Russia wants to partner with Israel in nanotechnology research
This news from RIA Novosti of a promising nanotech partnership between Russia and Israel—”Russia wants Israel to become strategic nanotech partner“:
Russia believes that Israel could become a strategic partner in developing nanotechnology projects, the general director of the Russian Rosnanotech state corporation said on Thursday.
“Israel is one of the global high-teach leaders, uniting a large number of inventers [Sic], innovative groups, working in the nanotechnology sphere,” Leonid Melamed said during a visit to Israel.
The main goal of the visit, which includes trips to educational, scientific and technical centers and meetings with Israeli officials, is to identify investment projects for Russia.
“Considering that almost half of the people working in these laboratories speak Russian, Israel is clearly a strategic partner for us,” Melamed added.
In 2007, the Russian government allocated 130 billion rubles (about $5.5 billion) to Rosnanotech, which is aiming to build infrastructure in Russia for nanotechnology projects providing the right research conditions.
—Jim
September 8th, 2008 at 2:35 PM
[...] RUSSIA WANTS TO PARTNER WITH ISRAEL in nanotechnology research. [...]
September 8th, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Russia doesn’t have a chance in hell of ever being a leader in any high technology field. They’d like to be piggy-backed by a country like Israel. The biggest problem with that is that Russia can’t really expand on such collaborative research, lacking the tech infra-structure. The human capital of Russia is either emigrating west or dying off. This kind of story reads more like a Putin fantasy than real news.
September 8th, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Talk about synergy! Israel helps Russia with nanotech and Russia helps Iran miniaturize the nuclear weapons it will use to wipe out Israel. This is in Israel’s strategic interest, of course. Israel has been trying to commit suicide, unsuccessfully, for 20 years and this collaboration will finally get the job done.
September 8th, 2008 at 4:29 PM
Yeah, I can see that working out in Isreals favor.
September 8th, 2008 at 5:33 PM
This ought to scare American nanotech researchers into a revved up fight for more funds and leeway. But it probably won’t.