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...high-tech market is around 0.3%; America's is 130 times higher. Russia has to fix lots of things for that imbalance to change. Among them: its weak enforcement of intellectual property laws, onerous business registration procedures and strict controls on the export of hard currency. Also, Russian entrepreneurs lack the business basics...
...Still, Russian tech companies are starting to figure out how to capitalize on their strengths. IBS Group (www.ibs-company.com) is successfully targeting the $2.5 billion domestic IT market. And TerraLink Technologies (www.terralink.ru) sells its software development and engineering services both at home and abroad. There are 5,000 to 8,000 professional programmers in Russia, generating revenues of $60 million to $100 million a year - a number that is growing 40% to 60% annually. Clients include Boeing, Intel, Motorola, Nortel and Sun Microsystems. But very few Russian companies meet international quality standards and even fewer have track records in the West...
...Russia develop itself as a technology hub? Israeli venture capitalist Eliezer Manor, a keynote speaker at the Russian Technology Investment Forum in Moscow this month, urged companies to start by partnering with more established counterparts in India and Israel. Thomas Nastas, the forum's organizer, said European companies should be considered too: "Partnering is the name of the game." At the Russian Internet Forum, also in March, Andrei Zotov, chief executive of V6 (www.v6.ru), which helps corporations set up business processes on the Web, described how it was expanding its operations with P2P, its French partner. "I don't believe...
...Other Russian companies are establishing headquarters in the West. Alexander Galitsky, who honed his technical skills on Russian spy satellites, took his first stab at entrepreneurship in launching Elvis+, a company specializing in wireless computer connectivity. When he created Trustworks Systems (www.trustworks.com), which makes network security solutions, Dyson advised him to set up shop in the West to better access financial markets. Now based in Amsterdam, Trustworks has raised $23 million, most of it Western capital...
...George Pachikov, a well-known Russian tech pioneer, has moved the headquarters of his company, ParallelGraphics (www.parallelgraphics.com), to Ireland and hired a local as ceo. The company traces its origins to 1988 and a Russian software start-up called Paragraph. It was among the first to develop handwriting recognition and digital ink technologies, which were licensed by Apple for the Newton and are now used in many new-generation personal digital assistants. Briefly owned by Silicon Graphics, the 3-D business was bought back by Pachikov and relaunched as ParallelGraphics, now one of the top 10 Russian software exporters...