The Global Forum on Naturally Based and Convergent Technologies will be held on September 28-29 in Sochi. Participants of the Forum will be offered to pass a survey on barriers to the development and introduction of new technologies

October 01, 2018

The topic related to the problems and barriers to the development and introduction of new technologies requires a special attention and cannot be separated from the discussion of the range of opportunities that are created by the scientific and technological directions formed at the junction of nano-, bio-, information-, cognitive-, social- sciences that are combined in a complex of Naturally Based and Convergent technologies. This issue will become one of the objects for the discussions among participants of The Global Forum on Naturally Based and Convergent Technologies in Sochi in 2018.

National Research Center «Kurchatov Institute» and the Foundation “Center for Strategic Research “North-West”” with the organizational support of the UNIDO Center for International Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation will conduct an online survey on the topic „Barriers to the development and introduction of new technologies“ in the framework of the Forum.

The goal of the survey is to identify expert opinions on the stages of completion and barriers to the development and introduction of new technologies in the areas of bio-, nano-, information, cognitive, socio-humanitarian, convergent technologies. The survey is aimed at representatives of scientific institutions, universities, development companies, development institutions, which make a significant contribution to the development of the scientific and technological complex of the Russian Federation.

The results of the survey will be used in the framework of the project on the development of the forecast for the implementation of the priority 20.G of the Strategy for the Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation, related to the potential for responding to major challenges, with due regard of the interaction of man and nature, man and technologies, social institutions. The project is supported at the level of the Federal Targeted Programme for Research and Development in Priority Areas of Development of the Russian Scientific and Technological Complex for 2014-2020.

We invite the participants of the Forum to take part in the study. The survey will be available at https://ru.surveymonkey.com/r/BarriersTechnForum until October 10, 2018.

The results of the research will be available on the websites of the Center for Strategic Research “North-West”, NRC “Kurchatov Institute” and the UNIDO Center for International Industrial Cooperation in the Russian Federation.