Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, shares the latest news on plans to create an alternative to air transport.

The article discusses the opportunities of experience and best practices exchange in business with the use of interfirm cooperation mechanism. The character of interconnection of interfirm cooperation and partnership and competitiveness development of the national economy is analyzed on the evidence of the ICT sector. Additional measures for activization of the participation of Russian companies in interfirm cooperation are suggested.

Shigeru Murayama, the President of the Japan Association for Trade with Russia and the Newly Independent States (ROTOBO), talks about how to iron out economic fluctuations, increase the competitive attractiveness of the Far Eastern advanced special economic zones (ASEZs), and introduce high-tech Japanese developments to Russia.

In this year’s Tech Trends report, Deloitte examines how enterprises are automating, abstracting, and outsourcing their business processes to tech tools in order to raise efficiency and tackle innovative projects.