According to RUSNANO’s Director General, the main focus of the interaction will be the selection of specific projects from Japanese partners’ applications to be implemented in Russia jointly with RUSNANO. The parties also discussed how to expand business cooperation to include smaller companies specializing in the development of state-of-the-art technology alongside large corporations in the sector. If small businesses participate in the bilateral process, this could become a “separate line of interest”, believes Anatoly Chubais.
“We addressed the possibility of arranging a workshop for such companies in Japan, in order to make it clear, by engaging in straightforward discussion, how exactly to work with us,” he said.
According to Anatoly Chubais, the Japanese side of the group will be headed by Hideiti Okada, Director General of the Ministry’s Trade Policy Department. The Russian section will be chaired by Alexander Losyukov, RUSNANO Deputy Director General, former Russian ambassador to Japan.
During the visit to Japan, RUSNANO’s delegation held consultations on cooperation with such major corporations as Hitachi, Toshiba, Sumitomo; engaged conversation at Keidanren, the Japanese Business Federation; and visited the academic City of Tsukuba, a center for up and coming R&D, including nanotechnology.
