In association with East-West Digital News, faberNovel, a French innovation consulting firm with offices in Paris, San Francisco and Moscow, has just released an eye-opening presentation on the Russian Internet and innovation system.
The report features the latest data on the Russian market and its key players, of course, but then goes further, providing useful insights on the country’s innovation model in a historical perspective: from rocket pioneer Tsiolkovsky to cosmonaut Gagarin and on to such notable startups as Displair, Good Roads and ResumUp – which faberNovel sees as having a disruptive value proposition.
Noting that Yandex founders Arkady Volozh and Ilya Segalovich wrote their search algorithm years before Larry Page and Sergey Brin even started their research at Stanford, faberNovel concludes with some well-grounded irony: “You might call Google the US Yandex, rather than the other way around.”
The presentation has had over 100,000 views since its release on Slideshare and Business Insider a few days ago.
