Certainly an area of strategic importance, and a good piece in the technological jigsaw. However, we need step beyond what we can envisage immediately as the next step on the roadmap in many areas, so as to develop a vibrant economy, based on a broad spectrum of contributors. Technology definitely forms a valuable Russsian brand pillar, so we need an array of approaches to meet the technological lifecycle portfolio, to enable extraction of the maximum benefit, through continual business creation and lifecycle optimisation. This is one area we can learn from the US, in terms of technological development and innovation. For far too long our efforts have been directed and controlled, instead of allowed to be focused by innovation seeding and financial pull through, based on sound marketing and business practices. There is no doubt that the state has a huge part to play in setting up the key infrastructure and technical motors of iinnovation. However to get real benefit, the derivative innovators need to be encouraged and faciltated, to allow a second tier feeder community that can take advantage, in an innovative fashion, of the derivative works of the big state enterprises. It is naive to think that cottage industries work alone, they work, when the big state ship is cutting the water, to provide a bow wave for them to thrive in. This state ship naturally in time gets supplemented by big corporate ships, who expand and develop further the approach. Super computing is an excellent area for state actors, just like aerospace, nuclear and medical technology. Let's see both more of this and a greater effort to support derivative entreprenerial actions. We are in exciting times here!

Yes that's America. The ship of state got supplemented by big corporate ships. The ones on Wall Street first sank the ones that made anything. Then they sank themselves. At this very moment the government of the USA is grovelling to the Chinese government. The American economic model enfeebled its manufacturing sector and bloated its financial services. As a result of comparative advantage , in spite of Obama, this process will continue. In 1945 four out of every five cars were produced in America. Now two out of every two large scale frauds is rooted there. That's how they keep their unbalanced trade balanced.

Babeouf - Great comments! this is where it all went wrong for the US, their people got used and abused, like others around the world by the Wall Street cronies. The problem was, no regulation in terms of fair competition and no regulation in terms of national cohesiveness i.e looking after the people of the US as US citizens and other countries as homogenous nations with their own citizens. Peoples of all countries, just got used as pawns in the great financial game. Wall Street and money became superior to citizens, became superior to nations. It all just became a numbers game for the few. Don't get me wrong, I support capitalism 100%, what I don't support is finacial terrorism inflicted on people and nations by Wall Street, who are the financial Al Qaeda of the world, their financial terrorism is in many ways far more reaching and damaging than any bullet, gun or IED. CDS is their WMD. They act contrary to Business, contrary to workers, contrary to customers and contray to nationhood, they do this using the levers of government that they have purchased. I believe with correct regulation in Russia we can avoid these problems, they did start, but the Kremlin quickly administered a knee to the crutch of the Oligarchs, and said no to giving them the levers of power. I respect the Kremlin for this! Government is for the people and the nation, business exists within this framework, it shouldn't own it!