Karen Vardanyan: it is necessary to formulate innovation tasks for CIS countries

December 13, 2010 - 19:47 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Executive Director of Union of IT Enterprises (UITE) Karen Vardanyan said that innovative cooperation among the CIS countries needs to be developed, focusing on youth involvement.

“Unfortunately, today foreign experience is being copied, where infrastructure’s development is prioritized. However, we can construct technology parks, but lack specialists to work there,” Vardanyan said during Moscow-Yerevan-Astana-Kyiv spacebridge on Innovative Cooperation on the CIS Territory.

According to the expert, assistance to young specialists, who want to deal with innovation business, is a top priority task at this stage. Besides, Vardanyan said that it is necessary to formulate the innovation tasks, which need to be solved by specialists in the CIS.

Vardanyan offered to establish an interstate innovation base of the CIS countries.

Professor of the Institute of Economic Forecasting at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nikolay Komkov noted for his part that the increase in demand for innovations is among the top priority tasks faced by the CIS countries in the field of technologies development.

“The countries’ competitiveness assessment is important. For example, innovative products are sold in Russia and Ukraine with difficulty – both at internal and external markets. In its turn, economies of the CIS countries cannot be competitive without innovations development,” the expert said.

CEO of Ukrainian Scientific Club NGO Nataliya Shulga offered to unite efforts of the CIS countries for the development of energy saving and biomedicine fields.