Rusnano asks scammers not to worry
Rusnano State Corporation plans to approve 20 investment projects by the end of March 2009, CEO of the corporation Anatoly Chubais said yesterday at the International Forum on Nanotechnology. According to him, investments from Rusnano will amount to about 20 billion rubles, the same amount or more will be invested by private investors.
The project selection system created in the Rusnano state Corporation will not allow fraudsters to "fall for public funds with their adventurous ideas," Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at the forum. According to him, the state corporation has created two effective stages for evaluating investment projects for which funds can be allocated from the budget. Firstly, it is a scientific and technical council and an independent expert examination, which does not include employees of the state corporation. They define the properties of the proposed project. Then the project is considered by a special commercial expertise, which determines whether this nano-achievement is capable of being in demand on the market. "This selection system will elementary identify fraudsters," concluded Sergey Ivanov.
By the way, according to the agreement signed yesterday between Rusnano and the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), the parties will cooperate in the selection and implementation of projects aimed at the introduction of nanotechnology. For the examination of projects, Rusnano will use the expert potential of MSU specialists.
Oleg Abelev, head of the analytical department of the company "Rikom Trust", notes that 20 billion rubles is in principle enough to start, to create a foundation in the field of nanotechnology, but we must understand that all projects are very different, as well as the necessary amounts for their implementation. Attracting private investment is possible only under the guarantees of the state, state banks, which is why, in fact, the state corporation was created. The selection system is similar in its way to venture projects, but in this case mistakes are unforgivable, and only the priority project that pays off should be selected. At the same time, enhanced control can bureaucratize the process, and it is necessary to somehow observe the "golden mean".
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