In the jokes of our penetrating people that the Skolkovo innovation center was created exclusively for the convenience of cutting and squandering budget money, as usual, there was a share of jokes.
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation submitted information to the court that State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev received 300 thousand dollars for his lectures in Skolkovo. Now investigators are studying the value of these lectures and reflect on whether to bring them to the court of Ponomarev himself. A printout of one of these lectures was given. It lasted only 10 minutes, and the speaker, according to the UK, received 30 thousand dollars for it.
The meaning of the lecture is that Ilya Ponomarev spoke out as an expert about the draft business incubator. He said that there was no project as such at the moment. The building is one, and the business incubator is completely different. Its success is determined not by the quality and layout of the building, but by the place in which it is built. The main thing in the place is the distance from the personnel of the personnel. Those who organize a business incubator are important. These people should trust. The government structures currently have a negative reserve of trust. It is important what projects have been selected in the incubator. People will go there or not, depends on who will sit next to them, and not on the square and comfort. Thus, the selection of projects matters. Incubators are successful only when their creators emphasize that this is a development project. And examples of the successful creation of such institutions in Russia are an order of magnitude less than failures.
Ponomarev emphasized that the cost of the lease plays a very insignificant role, because it is 5-6 percent of the cost of the starting project. And people prefer to pay more than the market price in the place that is suitable than to get a room for free where their business will not develop. He criticized the numbers given in the project itself, calling them utopian. According to his experience, the cost of a square meter of such a business center, taking into account the purchase of expensive equipment, is about $ 1,400. Moreover, in other regions and in projects in which he was not busy, he saw numbers and 3-4 thousand dollars.
In short and without examples, then everything. And there are several points of view. Of course, if we compare the fee for the lecture with what the university teacher receives, the difference looks absolutely wild. But on the other hand, a consultation with an expert on an expensive project is also expensive. Because it can save much large amounts. For example — if the expert advises not to spend money on a deliberately doomed project. Here, of course, there is “but”: Ilya Ponomarev did not propose anything concrete, he only outlined the general principles and emphasized the inconsistency of the project to these principles. And rejected an approximate estimate.
There are political versions. Supporters of the party of power suggest that Ponomarev thus received funds to finance the opposition, part of which is. Moreover, perhaps did not bring the money to the addressee. And many of those who sympathize with Bolotnaya believe that Ilya Ponomarev did not have such money, and it was simply fabricated to remove it as a political figure.
