Etc. Russia's Silicon Vallev

摘要

The Skolkovo Moscow School of Management, with its hypermodern cylindrical and rectangular complex sheathed in red, gray, and blue-green glass, looks like the Battlestar Galac tica. And that is the point: to convey a sense of imminent takeoff. Skolkovo, five years old and located just beyond the MKAD, the beltway that wraps around Moscow, is training the first generation of Russian capitalists-not oligarchs, who took things that once belonged to the Soviet state and made a fortune selling them, but boot-strapping and scholarship-endowed DIY wealth creators. It also says it's the first MBA program that teaches would-be entre preneurs-from Russia as well as the U.S., Germany, Finland, and elsewhere-how to launch businesses in emerging markets. Business school officials like to point out that, from the air, Skolkovo resembles a painting by the Soviet abstract artist Kazimir Ma-levich, who was famous for doing things that had never been done.