Outstanding quotes from SPIEF 2022: Forum participants on economics, business and trade

The 2020 World Trade Report looks at the role of innovation and technology policies in an increasingly digitalized world economy and explains the role of the WTO in this changing context.

India is a guest country of EEF 2019, and prime minister Narendra Modi is coming to Vladivostok. In only six years, Russia and India’ s mutual investment will have exceeded $30 billion, primarily due to cooperation in military industry and nuclear energy, where our two countries have successfully engaged in numerous shared projects.

While small and medium-sized businesses are the foundation of developed economies, in Russia they still play a relatively modest role. Andrey Sharonov, President of Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, talks about how Russians view entrepreneurship — and what entrepreneurs think about the government, what separates a leader from a boss, and why businesses shouldn’t operate ‘in factory mode’.

The fifth issue of the annual report, prepared jointly by the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of International Studies of the Fudan University, offers the shared vision of Russian and Chinese experts in international affairs for continued collaboration between Russia and China in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019.