From France to China to India to the US, we are a global community at home. Hunkered down in our rooms, we are collectively fighting a virus that we are still learning about—and as consumers, we are changing our day-to-day behaviors in the face of government orders and advisories and continued increases in confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Anton Pronin, Acceleration Director of Skolkovo’s IT cluster, offers step-by-step instructions to startups for surviving a pandemic. The cluster is a partner of the Roscongress Foundation’s Innovation Space, and participates in every event hosted by the platform, including the Science Fest Innovation and Science Festival which is to take place online 24–26 July 2020.
Innovations industry is feeling the effects of the COVID-19 crisis too: many start-ups have ended up in a risk zone. Yet, there are those who managed to reshape their business in time to fit the current needs. Ekaterina Petrova, Managing Director of GenerationS Corporate Accelerator told of successful examples in its experience. Many of them will have representatives at the Science Fest International Festival of Science and Innovation that the Roscongress Foundation will hold on 24–26 July 2020.
In this publication, the Institute of Natural Monopolies Research (IPEM) summarizes the performance of Russia’s manufacturing industries in March 2020. Against a backdrop of unfavorable global economic environment coupled with measures against the COVID-19 pandemic, demand growth was registered in low-tech industries only. In extractive industries, the drop in demand is the sharpest on record since 2009.
The article analyzes the phenomenon of trust in Russian society during the coronavirus pandemic. The research is based on telephone interviews conducted by the Center for Civil Society and Nonprofit Sector Research with support from the HSE Basic Research Program.
