Skolkovo, a new Russian business school: Machiavelli + nanotechology
The site outside Moscow which used to house a Collective Farm during Soviet times is now a brand new international business school which emphasizes doing business in emerging markets:
“The curriculum will provide for analysis of business activities in the countries with rapidly growing economies such as Russia, India, Brazil, and China (the so called BRIC group).”
The examples of subjects to be covered in Skolkovo’s curriculum shows well there Russia is in early 2008: seemingly intergrated in global culture and yet continuing to carry its own unique DNAs (Machiavelli meets nanotechology):
“innovative technologies: nanotechology, biotechnology, gene engineering, etc.general education: chinese strategems, Machiavelli’s doctrine, H. Ford’s memoirs, etc.”
School’s architecture is by the British architect David Adjaye.