Russian companies have traveled the path of simplification, trying to survive in an economy of comprehensive restrictions, abandoning expensive projects to develop new technologies and focusing on patching technological holes caused by sanctions and denial of access to technologies developed in the Western world. Facing the brain drain and an inability to rely on new components from abroad, they are presently trying to replace inaccessible foreign solutions with their own developments.

To take the next step in R&D development, companies need to reconsider cooperation chains, focusing on domestic development centers, and aiming at restoring the level of trust at all stages of scientific work between the customer and the contractor. They must also transform the system of reviewing new solutions and reset their priorities in development. What direction is the economy pushing us in? Are businesses motivated to localize their R&D activities or rather prefer to buy solutions from abroad?