Russia seeks international partnerships in pharma, clean tech, mechanical engineering and then some

Russia has announced a set of its focal sectors open for wide cooperation with international players, including pharma, clean tech, mechanical engineering and some others.

New chemistry, drugs and medical devices, engineering tools making, engineering, new materials, timber projects, ?green? biotechnologies, biofuels and biodegradable plastics?these are Russia?s priority sectors open for wide cooperation with international players, Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the official media mouthpiece of the Russian government, quoted Igor Karavaev, a Russian spokesman, as saying at the opening ceremony of the First Russian-Swiss Innovation Day in Switzerland?s Lausanne last Friday. According to the Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce of Russia, his country has built a ?full-fledged legislative base? for rapid industrial modernization and mutually advantageous cooperation with the outside world...