Welcome to the TechnohHub blog. This blog and web site is focused on the challenge of creating high tech, first wave start ups in the Russian Federation. First wave, as in – INVENTED HERE! Taking new technologies global and establishing Russia as a center of innovation is not an overnight task. But it starts the moment you do. We focus on Russian university incubators because that is where the seeds of the future of Russia are planted. It is time to start growing.

Nobody owns the Future. But anyone could.
Russia has about 1 million researchers and scientists working in R&D centers,. No other country has that sort of existing resource. Many of these institutes lack the latest equipment and machinery, This is not always a disadvantage. Russian manufacturers and product developers have had to rely on "creativity" -- finding and adapting scientific and other proven approaches from other industries to solve engineering challenges.

Global companies such as Boeing, IBM, Intel, Xerox and Motorola have tapped these scientists in search of answers to their product innovation challenges.   Xerox, used Russian technologists to solve a major production bottleneck in its plants that produced toner cartridge: the speed with which cartridges were filled. It found an idea from a Russian engineer to vibrate toner particles with a resonance frequency, which accelerated the flow of toner powder into cartridge. This manufacturing process breakthrough enabled the company to produce toner cartridges eight times faster than before.  There should be a method for Russia to harness this capability to augment seed growth.  How is your start up using a lack of resources as a strategic advantage? A million resources are here. Can’t you find one that puts you in the lead?

It is this simple. If not you, who? If not now, when?  Write your own future. Let someone else write your history.

Успехов!

Joanne Walter
President, Ecoinvest LLC
Independent Director, TechnoHub

Note: If you are interested in the details on competitiveness, the research can be downloaded here: Georgia Tech High Tech Indicators (“HTI”) for 2007.