Moscow Meets Man

A former British paratrooper recruits top Russian scientists, installs them on the remote Isle of Man for a year, then sends them out to run cutting-edge technology companies in the West. Not so long ago, this might have come from a John Le Carré novel. But in today's globalized, post-cold war world, a Russian tech incubator on a tax haven off Britain merely makes good business sense.

Ex-soldier Ian Woodcock, 40, brings scientists and their inventions out of politically unstable Russia and, with Western commercial expertise and outside investment, converts the ideas into companies ready for the global...

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