Firms there have installed numerous Italian looms, as well as developingequipment of their own, but the finest cashmere clothes still come from Biella.
Officials, however, are sceptical as to whether Delhi and Moscow can really shift their relationship from the prevailing unequal one of a buyer and seller of military hardware to jointly developing defence equipment and marketing it globally.
The only Scottish winner in the innovation category was Aberdeenshire-based Zenith Oilfield Technology for developing well surveillance equipment which has contributed significantly to increasing oil production worldwide.