Technology transfer to SME Russian experience

Years No serious need for technology transfer (TT) because of: - poor financing of science - weak and resource based economy - tough environment for SME - science is not most prestigious anymore Various instruments of TT are tested Main instrument – transfer by brains Not clear situation with IPR

Years Good federal and regional money started to come to science and education Large industries started to look for technological innovation in products and services FDI and R&D centres of large international corporations in Russia started to play important role Large money came to venture funds – more than 2,0 Bln. Euro (50% state/50% private) Much better political environment for SME, especially innovative A plenty of business incubators are under construction

Tested TT Instruments Technology brokers TT and consulting centers Facilities for technology development Information services Special programs

Technology brokers Dozens through Russia Not quite popular and trusted Mostly operate for foreign companies Some effective are from abroad, like “Imprimatur Capital” (UK) Brokers’ overall efficiency – dozens of TTs “Selftransfer” is much more effective

TT and consulting centers TT Centers (Offices) – about 100, mostly special parts of Universities and Research Institutes; some private, 2 Russian-French TTC Consulting and couching centers – about 20 public: - where and how to be educated and trained for business, - where and how to get financing, - how not to make wrong steps Patent offices – more than 500, private

TTO as a part of BRHE program (CRDF)

FACILITIES FOR TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Business-Incubators - As a part of Technoparks within Universities (64) - Regional (MED + regional resources), 112 under creation, 39 are open (11 of them are for innovative enterprises) - As elements of Special Economic Zones Technoparks (64) - Created by Universities during USSR period – to incubate and commercialize R&R results, relied on support by Government Innovative Technological Centers (77) - Self-sustaining facilities, latest stages of breeding, partially incubating

Information services Knowledge and data bases (RFBR, FASIE, Universities’ and RAS’) Information resources – (public) (private), (public) Russian-French technological network Britain-Russian Innovation Network (BRIN), (8 UK IRCs and 16 RTTN members), TO/TR data base – 440 profiles, Russian consortium of information networks RUITC+RTTN+RA (90 BIC, ITC, TTC, TP)

ANVAR – FASIE, RFR - RTTN More than 100 technological audits, nore than 50 TR and TO, 20 projects 10 seminars “How to make technological partnership with French SME” 3 brokers’ meetings with French IRC (South-West, Ile-de-France, Rohne-Alphe) and Russian TTC More than 60 members through Russia Training courses “How to make technological audit”, “How TT networks operate” Innovative Enterprise Initiative by French Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Special programs UMNIK (SMART) – to support young innovator (up to 28 years), 1000 per year START – seed financing of spin-offs from Universities PUSC – Transfer of technology and team through Partnership of University and Small Company TEMP – assistance in licensing of technology from Universities to SME

PUSC Programme - Partnership of Universities and Small Companies -Joint Programme with Rosnauka -To assist rather matured Enterprises when they need “package” - new technology and highly trained personnel for it’s commercialization -Rosnauka finances University for training -FASIE assists technology commercialization by SIE

PROBLEMS with BI: -not to many clients (Some participants of STARTand UMNIK programs became clients) - still weak management teams and not enough methodological materials – “How to run business-incubator successfully” ” - limited instruments for support with TP: - no support by Government with ITC: - still few well developed examples

PROBLEMS with consulting - Public – not quite qualified - Private – quite expensive for seed-and-breed stage with information services - Not well known - Not quite trusted - Too much “noise” when it comes to scientific and technological proposals As a result - Nurturing and prototyping now is the weakest element of innovation chain

Problems of TT Environment There are no economical stimulus for large corporations to become technologically innovative Quite a large portion of scientific reservoir is old (personnel, results, instruments) Scientists are not used to “sell” their knowledge to industry, GOSPLAN was the only TT Office The scale of use of all instruments is still too small to influence national economy Universities are still considered mostly as places for education not for science and innovation

Some Hopes The very strong political impulses for innovative economy Mutual understanding between MED and MES about innovation policy Large national programs and projects started – Nanotechnology, ITNR, Glonass, SuperJet, Space, etc. Development of new infrastructure – SEZ, High- Tech Parks, EC – Russia project for TT networks started within CIP (“Gate2RuBIN”)

Gate2RuBIN project (Russia) Gate to Russian Business and Innovation Networks (Gate2RuBIN) is the Russian proposal for EEN Submitted by a consortium: –Union of Innovation Technology Centers of Russia (RUITC) –Russian Technology Transfer Network (RTTN) –Russian Agency for SME Support (RA) Gate to –SMEs (~ 4000) –Universities and research centers (~450) –Innovation centers (~ 100), via Russian networks

Performance Indicators Indicator Total number of clients The number of Russian Centres The number of assisted Russian clients SMEs R&D organisations The number of European partners The number of initiated projects of RF-EU technological co-operation

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