OREANDA-NEWS. On 27 February 2009 was announced, that Gennady Krasnikov, Director General of JSC “NIIME and Micron”, Head of the Sitronics Microelectronics Solutions business division, took part in the first meeting of the Board of General and Chief Designers, leading scientists and experts in the field of high-technology economy sectors under the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation.

The Board was established to develop professional recommendations on key questions of structural, innovative and scientific-technical policy, to conduct a deep analysis and trend forecast in the development of high-technology branches.

The meeting was opened by Vladimir Putin, who named the Board "scientific and engineering headquarters of the Russian industry". The Chairman of the Government noted: "A successful post-crisis recovery and future stable growth of the home industry are possible only via a new technological base."

Summarizing the results of the meeting, Gennady Krasnikov made the point of creating a new advisory body for the branch: "In microelectronics in enabling the economic environment over the last years the first major investment projects have been realized, the foundations for a public private partnership have been laid down, the Federal target program on the branch development have been developed. These mechanisms have been launched, but in a new economic environment the state, science and business should promptly use new joint efforts to continue the progress in the reduction of technological reliance on the rest of the  world."

The Board was established in October 2008 by the resolution of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation V.V.Putin for the purpose of effective realization of the state policy in the priority areas of science, engineering and technologies in the Russian Federation. The composition of the Board under the chairmanship of V.V.Putin includes Deputy Prime Minister S.B.Ivanov, the Minister of Economic Development E.S.Nabiullina, the Minister of Education and Science A.A.Fursenko, leading experts in the field of high technologies, general directors of the leading enterprises of aerospace, radio engineering, instrument-making and other branches.