Everybody is talking abort “treason” and I am talking once again about “victory”: this week in Kyiv the grand opening of the high-tech center High Tech Office (HTO) has been held.

This cluster is designed to find and promote innovations of national level. In plain language, this means that now the leading experts of the largest Ukrainian companies will collect information on the current developments of our inventors and implement those that are able to bring money quickly and guaranteed. Logic is simple.

By the way, the center is developed by analogy with the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist: this is a person who is responsible for the development of modern researches and elaborations. His task is to find the most promising projects, and thus those that will bring profit and contribute to the further development of the industry.

In Israel, this activity is the key to sustainable growth not only of science, but also of production. In fact one of the most important factors of the success of Israel's economic model is the commercialization of scientific achievements: Israeli have accumulated vast experience in the implementation of university projects. Scientific research centers of Israeli universities are not only the centers of development of science, but also one of the most promising spheres of the Israeli economy.

Ukrainian High Tech Office will work the same way: the basis of its activity will be a support of innovative ideas for technology development and innovations, as well as implementing of projects based on intellectual potential of Ukrainian scientists. First of all, the center will work with innovations in the areas of agriculture, infrastructure, cybersecurity and manufacturing of high-tech equipment. The cluster itself was created by commercial companies, the representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development will become members of it.

We live in the age of high technologies and today any investment in science is an investment in your future. Today science can be the foundation of long-term economic growth, and an example of Israel is a proof of this. Currently Ukraine is at the beginning of its way, so we can use the experience of Israel, which has successfully been applying the potential of its science for the commercial purposes for many years.