D. O. SHCHELKUNOV Master's degree student at MGIMO (U) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation India, Bangalore Keywords:, Skolkovo. information technology, outsourcing-innovative economy The project called "Skolkovo Innovation Center" is conceived as a Russian analog of California's Silicon Valley. Innograd (innovation city) in the near Moscow region should prove to the whole world that Russia is able not only to trade in oil and gas, but also is able to remember its past achievements and continue developing in fundamental science, in particular, in the field of space, nuclear energy, information technology and medicine. Naturally, the future will show what will come out of this and whether this project will serve to qualitatively change the structure of the Russian economy. Since December 2010, when the construction of the innovation center was launched, too little time has passed so far to be able to judge any first serious results of such a large-scale project as Skolkovo. After all, the same Silicon Valley in the United States has been developing for almost seven decades, and the history of the formation of the Indian "Silicon Plateau" - the city of Bangalore in Karnataka-dates back to the 70s of the last century. And while the American experience of creating an innovation cluster has long been closely studied by various experts in our country, the experience of India seems undeservedly overlooked, although it is also of no small importance for Russia. After all, the Indian reality is in many ways closer to the Russian one than the American one. How did the "Bangalore miracle"originate and develop? How did the breakthrough in the information technology (IT) industry allow the South Asian giant to enter the global pool of high-tech powers? HOW THE STEEL WAS TEMPERED If you remember the history, then the British rule had a great influence on the development of the city, during which the telegraph, post office, railway was laid here, and the f ... Читать далее