Russian Investment Forum in Sochi
The Russian Investment Forum (RIF) is a traditional platform for the direct communication between state bodies, investors, and a vast audience of industry experts in the region coming to the RIF from around the world. This year the RIF was primarily devoted to the development of Russian regions, covering such topics as Russian macroeconomic environment, foreign investments, government spendings and state programmes.
Four students from the Faculty of economic sciences visited the forum and one of them, Sergei Evdokimov wrote a report in English.
Russian Investment Forum (RIF) is very useful for each economic agent having its business operations in Russia given its scale and topics discussed in the forum. RIF is highly demanded across different enterprises because of its unique platform where government representatives and businessmen can discuss current investment climate and core business problems face to face. Moreover, many academics also visited this forum, since the topics raised and outlined as the core problems in the RIF were closely related to the current stage of the Russian education and relatively small demand for high-quality human capital in Russia in comparison with western countries.
Sessions Covered in the Report
The RIF’s program included multiple sessions, while only several topics are covered in this report.
February 27
- The Challenges of the Digital Economy: The Role of Sociocultural Factors and Infrastructure in Business Growth
- Improving Access to Energy Infrastructure: Applying the Experience of Major Cities to Create New National Standards
- Investment in the Russian Regions: Regional Policy Priorities
- Project Management: How to Avoid Developing Unviable Strategies
- Human Capital as a Factor of Economic Growth
- EAEU: The Single Market and New Rules for Investors
- Innovative Potential in Russia’s Regions: Drivers of Economic Growth
I chose these sessions because of their high relevance to the existing economic problems in Russia and my particular interest in innovative industries as well as cross-border relations with foreign investors. These topics are closely related to human capital and digital economy which are the key drivers of innovative industries nowadays.
Read the report
Sergey Evdokimov
Strategic Corporate Finance master program student