Published on: 2026-10-26
Source: Government of the Russian Federation –
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Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko, Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov, and Minister of Agriculture Oksana Lut spoke at the panel discussion “Technological Leaders: Who Connects Science, Business, and Production” as part of the large conference “Priority – Technological Leadership.” They also evaluated the exhibition of technological projects by universities participating in the “Priority-2030” and “Advanced Engineering Schools” programs.
Dmitry Chernyshenko emphasized the importance of creating concrete developments and focusing on “product logic,” and cited the words of First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov that developments must result in a product and be replicated at partners’ facilities.
“Russia ranks eighth in research and development expenditures and sixth in the number of researchers. A great support for the entire scientific field was the strategic session chaired by Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin, where unified approaches to planning were discussed—from priorities to specific technologies. As a result, it was instructed to develop ‘roadmaps’ for technology development plans,” stated the Deputy Prime Minister.
He presented data indicating that competitiveness in science is determined by the speed of the cycle “idea – prototype – testing – production,” and also emphasized the importance of Russian scientists using domestic AI agents.
“President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin set the task: ‘we need to organize work in such a way that domestic businesses and enterprises act as direct customers of breakthrough scientific solutions and technologies.’ To this end, we have created support tools, including within the framework of the national project ‘Youth and Children.’ Over five years, universities participating in ‘Priority-2030’ have attracted nearly 320 billion rubles from industry. This involves 141 universities and more than 280 projects. Another tool is advanced engineering schools. For every ruble from the government, almost 3 rubles come from business; the business contribution is about 60 billion rubles. We already have 50 such schools, and by the President’s directive, there will be 100,” reported Dmitry Chernyshenko.
The Deputy Prime Minister also emphasized the importance of effective management of intellectual property outcomes and the use of artificial intelligence in research and development. Recently, 41 pilot projects in science and education were launched in Innopolis.
Minister of Education and Science Valery Falkov, in turn, spoke about the categories of directors of leading engineering schools. They can be an invited industry representative who brings a new culture and performance indicators to the university, or an “inside director”—that is, a university employee. The second path, according to the minister, is the most correct. On the contrary, when the rector of the university is effectively the director, this can slow down the work of the engineering school.
Valery Falkov noted that the ministry plans to work on the creation of a management program for future directors of engineering schools.
Oksana Lut emphasized the need for closer cooperation between universities, scientific organizations, and agricultural enterprises. According to her, it is important for universities to focus on areas where they have established strong scientific schools and competencies, and when developing technologies jointly – to clearly distribute tasks and areas of responsibility.
The minister noted the significant role of business in the development of applied research. Enterprises can act as technology customers, formulate technical specifications, and combine the efforts of scientific organizations. At the same time, the specifics of the agro-industrial complex (AIC), where a significant part of market participants are small and medium-sized companies, require a special approach to forming industry-specific orders for developments. As an example of work on accelerated innovation implementation, Oksana Lut cited breeding, where today the traditional cycle for creating new varieties takes 10–12 years. Reducing these terms is necessary to increase the efficiency of Russian crop production. At the same time, the key factor here is the established interaction between science and business. In recent years, such partnership has reached a qualitatively new level – agricultural producers have become more active in forming requests for technologies and participating in determining research directions.
“Today, business and science have started to hear each other, and this is a major breakthrough. We have proactive companies that themselves say what developments they need. This allows scientific research to be oriented towards specific production needs and to obtain in-demand results,” the minister noted.
In addition, Dmitry Chernyshenko, along with Valery Falkov and Oksana Lut, evaluated an exhibition of technological projects from universities participating in the “Priority-2030” and “Advanced Engineering Schools” programs. For example, Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) presented an antenna system with adaptive beamforming control at the exhibition – it allows faster and more precise management of radio signals, while the K.A. Timiryazev Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Agricultural Academy showcased the accelerated crop breeding platform “PUSK” based on AI.
During the panel discussion, Yan Center, CEO of the management company “UZTM-Kartex”, Viktor Rulevsky, rector of TUSUR, and Lyudmila Tekutyeva, director of the advanced engineering school of the Far Eastern Federal University, also spoke. The moderator was Dmitry Sauers, deputy chairman of the management board of Gazprombank.
More than 500 representatives from universities, research organizations, businesses, and the expert community participated in the conference. The event was organized by the Gazprombank Center for Technological Leadership.
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