The innovation process is a long, very long way. Very important is the ability to think ten years ahead and to be flexible enough to adapt, to tune finely and change strategies.

The fact that the railway, built with the highest careful attitude to the way of life of local residents, came to Khangalass land — is really a historic event, the importance of which is equal to geographical discovery. A key to this discovery today — the bridge across river Lena, the bridge into the future of Yakutia.

Without federal support we are doomed to technological lag from developed countries. It is known that the competition is won by the one who has got the best machinery and improved technology.

Foresight — is an active prediction, which includes elements of impact on the future by matching particular interests of different social strata of civil society.

If not take urgent actions, by 2025 about 3 billion people may remain without water, and another 2/3 of the world’s population will suffer from its lack.

The crisis has revealed the existence of strategic contradiction in the Russian government, which leads to the fact that ministers of the different “blocks” act in the worst case independently of one another, at best — uncoordinated.

Identification of banks specializing in the bulk keeping of “buffer firms” and “ephemeral companies” is the foundation of efforts aimed at minimizing violations in the tax area.

Limited time resources can play a crucial role in designing the future, significantly altering the degree of the territory integration in the surrounding environment.

The French know very little about Russia. They learned the famous cliché and think that Russia is first of all mafia, corruption and the oligarchs, and it is impossible to understand how to work here. Of course, here there are specific business rules, and it is necessary to get adapted to them. On the other hand, the Russians have got not entirely true idea of France, which they adore.

In order to improve the system of prediction of socioeconomic development in the regions the practice of developing multivariant prediction with application of information technologies is introduced.