Healthy Life Area

A Leap of Faith: How Science Can Become the Foundation of the Future Economy

07 Jun , 12:15–13:15
Healthy Life Area
Congress Centre, zone E, Healthy Life Area

The modern world is developing based on the accelerated transition of scientific achievements from the category of knowledge into practical technologies and economic utility. However, this is a difficult process due to the need to build a space of trust between representatives of science, business, and the state. Despite the government’s increased funding for science and R&D, the existing links used to put knowledge and technology into economic circulation are not working at full capacity. This has resulted in certain scientific knowledge never leaving the laboratory, even though it has great potential for the future. To make the leap from knowledge to economic utility, scientists need to learn to entrust business with the most valuable thing: research results. With the participation of business and the government, clear mechanisms can be formulated to motivate scientists to put their results to practice. Existential challenges are also stimulating the development of individual scientific fields today: technological sovereignty and leadership cannot be attained without constant attention to science and support for research. In many areas, however, we do not fully understand the challenges that lie ahead, even though they could have a major impact on the world’s technological landscape. How can scientific knowledge overcome the valley of death and become economically useful? What role do scientists play in this process and when should business get involved? How are scientific and technological challenges becoming existential today? How can we establish chains to transfer scientific knowledge to the economy? What kind of common language should science, business, and government have to create a space of trust?

Moderator
Dmitry Zauers, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Gazprombank

Panellists
Konstantin Bogomolov, Art Director, Moscow Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya
Raul Gainetdinov, Director, Institute of Translational Biomedicine, Saint Petersburg State University
Aleksandr Gintsburg, Director, Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Peskov, General Director, Platform of the National Technology Initiative; Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Digital and Technological Development; Head of Young Professionals Direction, Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects
Natalya Popova, First Deputy General Director, Innopraktika
Ruslan Yunusov, Co-founder, Russian Quantum Center

Front row participant
Nailya Zigangirova, Chief Researcher, National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Honorary Academician N.F. Gamaleya of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

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