The time has come when increasing eco-efficiency in industrial production and consumption, strengthening responsibility for environmental damage should be attributed to the priorities of the Russian Federation economic policy.

You cannot go forward if you don’t know what are the strengths and weaknesses of your business and your competitors’ business.

It is imperative that Russia is rich with creative, initiative people, ready to realize these opportunities. It isn’t their fault that the overall stagnant situation, the dominance of bureaucrats, conservative party diktat often did not allow them to realize the most  ambitious ideas.

 Russia could develop faster, comprehending and learning from foreign experience of  “innovation economy”, including for the subsoil usage.

The necessary component for transition to an innovative society is the idea, common purpose, perceived and shared by people.

The acquisition of positive experience, if its price is not too high, inspires people, and enthusiasm, as we know, is contagious. Positive information is communicated from mouth to mouth and makes the product “natural choice of a client”.

Strangely enough, but good corporate governance, ensuring compliance with laws, standards, rules, rights and responsibilities, enables companies to avoid also the costs associated with legal suits, claims of shareholders and other economic disputes.

To date there are only 18 enterprises producing linen fabrics for technical and household purposes remaining in the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, light and textile industry of Russia has got great not yet realized potential for growth.