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Open University

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Russia has high potential for innovations and R&D

14 2013

Global Innovation

Quotient Calculated for 200 countries. They are rated

by rate of patent registration, concentration

of researches, intensity of R&D, volume of

investment in R&D etc.

Bloomberg

4 in Europe

2012

Dow Jones VentureSource

Evaluates venture markets by a number of

criteria.

Wall Street Journal, Heritage

Foundation

3000 Research institutions

60 Scientific towns

Venture investments in Russia are growing

Note: without semi-conductors. Source: Dow Jones VentureSource 2012.

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2 Mission

Enable diversification and growth of

Russia’s economy through

innovation and technology

commercialization

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Technologies and market access

Infrastructure & community

Funding

People

Knowledge

Ideas

Key elements of Skolkovo ecosystem

1031 startups

Technological University

Virtual Skolkovo

52 VCs: $650M

32 global corporations

Office and R&D infrastructure

Skolkovo ecosystem

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Number of innovative startups by the 11th March 2014

1031

Ideas: fostering ecosystem

Energy Efficiency

& Cleantech

Nuclear & Radiation

Technologies, Materials

& Engineering

Hardware, Software

& Distributed Computation

Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology,

Medical Devices &

BioIT

Space

Technologies, Telecomm

& Navigation

Systems

900 IP RIGHTS REGISTRATION APPLICATIONS IN 2013

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6 Biomedical cluster

Cluster priorities • Medical devices and clinical IT

• Major killer diseases in Russia and

neurological diseases • anti-microbial and anti-viral drugs • cancer drugs & diagnostics • cardio-vascular drugs & diagnostics • endocrine drugs & diagnostics

• Cellular and molecular techniques for

diagnostics and therapies

• Immunity, inflammation and auto-immunity

• Bioinformatics and systems biology

986 applications

237 participants

43 grants

Industrial partners:

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7 Energy efficiency & clean-tech cluster

Cluster priorities • Power and heat generation from fossil

fuels • Power and heat generation from

renewables • Energy accumulation • Power transmission and distribution • Oil and Gas production and

transportation • Chemistry and petrochemistry • Communal sector including district

heating, lighting etc. • Materials and equipment for

multifunctional energy efficient applications

• Other energy efficient technologies

1406 applications

268 participants

49

grants

Industrial partners:

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8 Participants

UNIHEAT Project Increasing energy efficiency and reducing heat loss in oil refining

• Center of Applied Research • Research Program • Industry Engagement Program • 3 years • 400 mln RUB

Novas Plasma-pulse technology for increasing oil and gas recovery

Mobix Chip Microchip for wireless smart metering systems

VERT Labs Innovative technology to convert energy of sea waves into electric power

100-300% increase in

output from treated wells

$6 mn investment from Tamir

Fishman GIC fund

Opened office in the U.S. in Feb.2013

New microchip based on hybrid

data transfer technology using

radio channels and power lines

Attracted £3 mn in

co-funding from BP

Power generation on waves <1.5 m, efficiency up

to 60%

One of Top-30 cleantech co’s

in Europe (2011)

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9 IT cluster

Cluster priorities • New search and recognition technology • New data storage, processing and

transmission methods (More than Moore) • Processing of large data arrays (Big Data

problem) • New development and testing tools • Development of new high performance

computing and data storage systems • Ubiquitous and Cloud Computing • Development of communication and

navigation technologies • Secure information technologies • New human-machine interfaces for any

applications

1770 applications

320 participants

82 grants

Industrial partners:

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10 Nuclear technologies cluster

Cluster priorities • Radiation technologies

• Development of new properties of

materials

• Mechanical engineering, instrument making and new microelectronics technologies

• Technologies of designing,

constructing, modeling and engineering of complicated technological objects and systems

• Spin-offs from nuclear science

378 applications

93 participants

30 grants

Industrial partners:

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11 Participants

PHOTON NANO-META TECHNOLOGY LLC ISOLATED PHOTON GENERATOR

• Ion sources and plasma generators of phosphorus and boron, allowing several times to increase the speed and quality of the key technological processes

• Now solutions are tested on the request of market leaders - Applied Materials and Axcelis

• The ultimate goal - selling the company and on its base business as an R & D Center in Russia

Плазменные источники

PLASMA SOURCES Equipment for the semiconductor industry

• A unique technology is used to manufacture the core of the HTS ribbon as a separate market product

• A collaboration has been organized with SC Rosatom in order to develop and release a line of end devices using HTS-2; support is required in order to obtain the optimum conditions.

• Licensing of the technology for manufacturing the core of the HTS ribbons, potential revenue of 10 million dollars within three years.

SUPEROX-INNOVATIONS LLC 2ND GENERATION OF SUPER-CONDUCTORS

RAMMICS LLC - Compact Raman

fluorescence microscope for rapid analysis

• An isolated photon generator for use in scientific research into the creation of quantum computers

• The basic q-bit element of a computer generator

• Global market: the aggregate volume of potential markets in 2016 is 20 billion dollars. The average annual growth rate is 10 %.

• Reducing the cost of the analysis 10 times due to the original design of the spectral sensitivity at a similar comparison with analogues

• Designing instruments performed on the request from pharmaceutical and chemical companies

• Cluster support in promoting the company to foreign markets

• First-phase grant and co-investment from the Q-wave foundation

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12 Nuclear technologies cluster: World-class expert panel

Number of scientific and business experts, working with Cluster's projects in various formats – more than 100

4. Engineering and instrumentation: V.D. Shiltzev, Director of Center for Accelerator Physics, National Accelerator Laboratory Enrico Fermi (U.S.)

2. Advanced Materials: S.L. Dudarev, Program Manager for materials and leader of simulation materials group, the European Atomic Energy Community, the Agency for Atomic Energy of the UK

3. Simulation and Lifecycle Management: L.А. Bolshov, Corresponding Member of RAS (1997), Director of IBRAE RAS state. Prize of the USSR (1988).

5. The spin-off of nuclear science: V.E. Fortov, Member of the Advisory Science Council, Academician, President of RAS

1. Radiation technology: Richard Lanza, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Nuclear Engineering, MIT

Bement Arden, Director NSF and NIST (former)

Velikhov Eugeniy Pavlovich, President of Kurchatov Institut, Member of the RAS

NT Cluster's Board of Experts:

Werner Burkart, Untill 2010 – IAEA Deputy Director

International Experts:

100% areas of the cluster’ foresight are covered by the experts, each foresight area is designated with more than 30 experts *

*) Taking into account the intersection for the experts working in several areas

Panchenko Vladislav Yakovlevich, Director of Institute of Laser and Information Technologies RAS, Member of the RAS

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13 Russian innovative clusters: Nuclear technology competence centers

Saint-Petersburg

Тroitsk

Chernogolovka

Dubna

Оbninsk

Novosibirsk

Тomsk

Sarov

Dimitrovgrad

- The most intense project activity

- Centre with average dynamics of project activity

- Centre with low dynamics of project activity *) Based on number of submitted project applications, 2011-13.

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14 Space Technologies Cluster

Cluster priorities • Space

• Telecommunications

Strategic Directions and Priority Areas of Development

• Earth to Space

• Earth - Space

• The new space economy

419 applications

113 participants

26 grants

Industrial partners:

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Art Biznes LiveMap - motorbike helmet with built-in navigation system and voice controlled interface

Dauria Aerospace Budget satellites for commercial applications

Aerob Intellectual control system for next-generation UAV

New Energy Technologies Small size atomic clock

Russia’s first private DX-1 satellite to be

launched in Q3 2013

Won a $10 mn Roscosmos tender for

development of CubeSat nano

High precision of received data and adaptive system of

flight control

First trials successfully completed

in May 2012

Original technical solutions make the

unit 2x cheaper and more stable

Created and tested 3 prototypes

First product sale in June 2013

First ever motorbike helmet with augmented

reality

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• Destined for 1,200 students, 300 post-docs and 200 faculty

• 5 education programs in line with 5 Skolkovo focus areas

• First intake of students in September 2012

• Two rounds of applications to establish first of some fifteen $60m USD R&D Centres incorporating Russian, International and Skolkovo-based collaborations. x12 Nobel laureates amongst latest round of applications

• Partners: ETH, Zurich; Imperial College, London; Stanford University, CA; and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Research

Education Innovation

Impacting the world’s body of knowledge

SkolTech’s Triple Helix

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17 Filling the ecosystem with people

• Open University Skolkovo developes a community of

talented young scholars and entrepreneurs whose

expertise provides new human resources and tech startups

• 200+ Students from Russia’s leading universities, 1000+

participants, 8000+ events participants, 300,000 on-line

broadcasting views

Virtual Skolkovo

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19 Providing technology and market access

• Some $1,0bn USD in research spending on-shore in Russia

• 3,200 R&D staff to be located at Skolkovo

• 8+ new buildings at Skolkovo City of up to 25,000m2

35 Russian and Multinational Technology Giants as key partners committed to:

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20 Skolkovo partnership program

SKOLKOVO’S VALUE PROPOSITION SKOLKOVO’S EXPECTATIONS

Support of R&D, engineering and commercialization activities through tailored ecosystem

Access to hightech competencies, innovations and infrastructure through startups, Technopark and Skoltech

Initial Russian market entry support package, including spin-offs launch

GR/PR support from Skolkovo

Financial resources (grants) in support of market expansion and technological project development

Vertical technological integration opportunities through startups to MNCs chain

Tax benefits

Russian-foreign companies partnership platform

Market insight to effectively manage grant portfolio and stimulate commercial acceleration of the participating startups

Significant physical presence at Skolkovo sight: people, sq. meters

Technological foresight and expertise

Financial commitment to invest into development of the R&D/engineering infrastructure

Mutual PR support

Significant tangible results of the mutual cooperation: new technologies, new IP, financial growth, ecosystem development

Educational programs and mentoring

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21 Industrial partners: Forms of cooperation with skolkovo

Definition Comments

“Partner” Entity involved in project development

Legal entity aiming to carry R&D activities on Skolkovo territory. Agreement to establish R&D Center is executed. Any form of legal entity and country of residence. As a rule, the head company of a group.

Opportunity to put R&D branch* in Skolkovo and get land permission aside of the public tender procedure.

“Key partner” Additional status for large companies

Partner with following characteristics: – $1/0,25 bln of annual revenue of

foreign/Russian companies – 30+ employees of the R&D Center within

3 years – 100 mln rub of investments during 3 years

Right to sit at the Industrial Board and influence key ecosystem decisions.

“R&D Center” Entity involved in project development

Partner’s subsidiary directly involved in R&D activity in Skolkovo. Any form of legal entity and country of residence.

Opportunity to carry on R&D activities without time limits.

“Partner’s R&D Center” Project participant

Russian legal entity with Charter corresponding with the Skolkovo Law requirements. This can be either R&D Center or its subsidiary.

Tax preferences.

* R&D status of a branch is confirmed by target R&D/General personnel ratio of 60%

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22 Skolkovo project participant: Requirement and benefits

PARTICIPANT STATUS REQUIREMENTS

PARTICIPANT STATUS BENEFITS

Alignment with the technological priorities

Innovation – a product has no analogs or exceeds the existing ones

Team – IP rights, motivation and entrepreneurship

International exposure of the project

Readiness to physically move to Skolkovo territory starting from 2016

Focus on R&D and commercialization activities (trade, mass sales over 1 bln rub and similar are prohibited,)

Tax and custom duties incentives

– Payroll-related social tax reduction (30% to 14%)

– Zero income tax, property tax and VAT

– Reimbursement of the custom duties and import VAT

Access to financial resources and business development expertise

– Venture capital and business angels network

– Infrastructure and technologies of the industrial partners

Infrastructure access and consulting services

– Technopark infrastructure and offices

– Accounting, tax issues and IP consulting

– Personnel center, simplified visa procedures

– International and national events

– Education, mentoring, etc. (Clusters, Open University, Skoltech, Technopark)

Opportunity to receive grant financing (see further)*

* Applicable only for start-ups and industrial partners spin-offs

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The City of Skolkovo

D1 –South mixed-use section

D2 – Technopark mixed-use

section

D3 –University mixed-use

section

D4 –North mixed-use section

Central area with the main

city guest sites and transport

hub

Z2 – landscape within the city

limits outside the planned

sections

D1

D4

D2

Z1

D3

• 400 hectares of land

• 2.5 million sq.m.

• 30,000 employees

• 20 ,000 residents

• World-renowned

architects

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24 Building infrastructure and community

• 19 km from downtown Moscow, 400 hectares, 1,316k of sq.m. of buildings

• Skolkovo will provide great conditions for 31,000 people to live and work comfortably

• Bringing together an international community of scientists, startups, students, investors, corporations

Hypercube– the first building in Skolkovo city:

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25 Providing office and R&D infrastructure

• 33 companies were allocated since March 2012

• 3 common use centers, laboratories:

Today: four floors are filled with startup companies

Rapid 3D Prototyping Electron Microscopy and

Materials Imaging Opto-Electronics

• Total area 30 000 m2 • Total number of work places 2 800 • Construction activities completion

date – December 2013

2014: Office Center «Technopark»: Future: Phase II of construction:

• Total area 140 000 m2 • Total number of work places 7 000 • IT labs, dry labs, wet labs, CUCs

(prototyping, metrology, life science)

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The City of Skolkovo. Projections and photo

Business center “Matreshka”, ready in a 1st half of 2014

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The City of Skolkovo. Technopark

Photo January 2014 ready in a 2st half of 2014

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Skolkovo attracts startups from all over Russia

236; 23%

320; 31% 265; 26%

110; 11%

91; 9%

Projects structure by clusters

Biomedical

IT

Energy

Space

Nuclear

1022

27,12%

22,37% 21,02%

8,47%

6,10%

4,75%

4,41% 3,73% 2,03%

Where our startups come from

Research Institutions

Middle sized business

Independent teams

International cooperation

Development institutions of Russia

Others

Venture funds

Other technoparks

Major Industrial companies

44 regions. Over 40% od the startups come from cities other then Moscow

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Cluster of Nuclear & Radiation Technologies

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Energy efficiency, energy saving, new energy technology

IT and software engineering

Biotechnology and medical technology incl.

development of medical drugs and equipment

Space technology in telecoms, navigation,

imaging, life systems

Radiation for industry, medicine,

security and other applications

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PRIORITIES OF NT CLUSTER OF SKOLKOVO FOUNDATION.

TECHNOLOGICAL STRUCTURE

2.1. Technologies based on nuclear science

developments:

2.2. Radiation technologies

2.3. Technologies of properties’ modification and

characterization of materials

2.4. Technologies supplied to mechanical systems,

instruments and new microelectronics

2.5. Technologies of designing, constructing, modeling

and engineering of complicated technological objects

and systems

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MARKET PRIORITIES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF NUCLEAR AND RADIATION

TECHNOLOGIES

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•Nuclear industry

•Medicine and biotechnologies

•Microelectronics

•Manufacturing and processing

industries

•Security and safety

•Food and water markets

•Ecological sustainability

• Scientific market

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THE PARTICIPANTS WITH THE STRONGEST POTENTIAL ARE RECEIVING

MAXIMUM SUPPORT FROM THE CLUSTER

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Nuclear containers

corporation

Attracting external

funding

Awarding of a

grant Partnership with

the industry GR/PR

Plasma sources

*

Accelerating and

developing the

commercialization

strategy

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INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

International commercialization

1. A range of projects are being developed by

means of international partnerships (R&D

contracts, procurement of inventions, potential

purchase of technologies or start-ups

themselves)

2. The mechanism of competitions involving

international partners – Varian Startup

Challenge 2013 (we are continuing this in 2014)

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International acceleration

1. Getting companies from the Cluster

involved in successful commercialization

projects for innovation centres and

partners - HighTechXL Eindhoven,

Acceleration Pathway at Houston

Technology Centre

2. A road-show showcasing projects

undertaken by the NT Cluster has been

planned:

In the field of radiation technologies – in

Grenoble (France) in March 2014

In the field of back-end – in Japan, in the 3rd

quarter of 2014

3. Work is ongoing to attract entrepreneurs to

projects involving teams with predominantly

scientific and research-based skill-sets

Plasma sources

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in the negotiation stage

IN THE SECOND HALF OF 2013 WE MANAGED TO MAKE SERIOUS

PROGRESS IN THE WORK WE DID WITH OUR INDUSTRIAL PARTNERS

Support for spin-offs Jointly held events,

competitions, foresight

exercises

Launch of

R&D/engineering

centres

Promotion

activities, GR/PR

Acceleration of

cluster

participants

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POSSIBLE AREAS OF COOPERATION

1. Cooperate within the international technology foresight –

representatives of Ukraine expert board;

2. Share technical flow charts within sectors: industrial components,

engineering, R&D, personnel;

3. Elaborate a joint regulatory framework development program;

4. Projects of international teams in Skolkovo, through setting up of

Russian companies

.

Isotopes Accelerators (cyclotrons/ synchrotrons, etc.)

Lasers Magnets

Key technical areas

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Contacts:

Dr. Alexander Fertman Scientific Director [email protected] +7 (916) 9170672

THANK YOU!

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Technology Platform is a new mechanism of private-state cooperation developed by European

Commission

In 2010 Russia initiated organization of Technology Platforms within the framework of the Governmental

Commission on High Technologies and Innovations

April 2011 – Prime Minister of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin approved the list of Technology

Platforms, including Technology Platform “Radiation Technologies” initiated by State Atomic Energy

Corporation “Rosatom”

June 2011 – Nuclear Cluster of Skolkovo Foundation leads Technology Platform “Radiation Technologies”

January 2012 – coordination of Technology Platform “Radiation Technologies” transferred from Rosatom

to Nuclear Cluster of Skolkovo Foundation

Technology Platform “Radiation Technology”

Key milestones

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General coordination of radiation technology development in Russia:

• Establishing market association – over 70 members (state and private companies, leading research institutes, universities) and over 30 startups – residents of Skolkovo Foundation,

• Providing international expertize via Expert Panel, Scientific Council, international network etc., • Working out long term industrial program, • Providing recommendations for standards and norms actualization, etc.

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TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM IS AN INSTITUTION FOR:

1. Regular discussion of a long-term vision of

the development of technologies between

industry players

2. Coordinated use of limited governmental

and corporate resources in R&D

3. Engagement of the R&D community and

global industry leaders in foresight and

examination of developments

4. Building of a legitimate and stable platform

for communication with the key

governmental customers

5. Coordination of activity for the development

of research framework and for organization

of shared access in the form of common

use centers

6. Drafting, establishment of cooperation and

coordination of regional clusters’

development programs

Entrepreneurs

Local industrial partners International

cooperation and production chains

Customers and technology consumers

Standard and regulatory

organizations

Government

Investors

Scientists and engineers