Activity of Russian universities in the sphere of technology commercialization

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Activity of Russian universities in the sphere of
technology commercialization

• M.N.Strikhanov Deputy Education Minister of the
  Russian Federation

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Knowledge-based economy
Communications
Education
Innovative systems
Cooperation
SCIENCE
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New economy essence of notions
Development of a new economy is one of
priority areas of the Russian Federation
government policy
A new economy
is a block of sectors characterized with greater
human capital investment compared to the
material factor
Priorities of a new economy

• professional education
• information and communication markets
• output of innovations
• intellectual services

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New tendencies in development of science in Russia

• Fundamentals of the Russian Federation policy of
  scientific and technological development until
  the year 2010 and for a longer perspective.
• Priority areas of science and technology
  development in the Russian Federation.
• List of critical technologies of the Russian
  Federation.

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Priorities

• Development of fundamental research
• Innovative development of the economy, creating
  an effective national innovative system
• Personnel training and developing university
  science as an important component of scientific
  and technological personnel of a knowledge-based
  economy

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Commercialization of Science as a Method of
Overcoming a Decline in Science
COMMERCIALIZATION OF SCIENCE
Recovering lost positions on the world market
Reinvestment of funds
Maintaining personnel potential
Enhancing financial education
Increasing the financing of fundamental research
Solving acute social problems
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Problems of commercialization in Russia

• Imperfection of the legal framework.
• Shortage of qualified personnel.
• Industrys low investment activity.
• Industrys low innovative activity.
• Obsolescent physical infrastructure of science.

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Government strategy of IP commercialization

• Substituting the export of raw materials with the
  export of Russian technologies.
• Working out legal protection and IP
  commercialization mechanisms.
• Promoting the development of a domestic market of
  technology transfer venture financing.
• Extending fundamental and applied RD as the
  basis for the innovative process.

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Universitys Mission
Scientific research-training specialists
New university mission
1. Academic innovations 2. Know-how services and
RD commercialization
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University management

• Strategic planning
• Search for additional sources of financing
• Coordinating educational plans
• International connections management
• IP commercialization

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System of higher professional education in the
Russian Federation

• 569 higher educational institutions under the
  jurisdiction of 22 ministries, agencies, and the
  Russian Federation Government
• including
• 333 universities under the jurisdiction of the
  Russian Education Ministry
• 236 higher educational institutions under the
  jurisdiction of the Ministry of Agriculture, the
  Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of
  Culture, etc.
• 1,067 research labs
• 702 engineering centers
• Personnel
• around 400,000 scientists and teachers, including
  37,000 doctors of sciences, 123,000 candidates of
  sciences, 135,000 graduate students
• over 6.5 million students

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Russian Federation Education Ministry Financing
Higher education financing (14 items) - RUR 42
billion.Financing scientific research in
education (06 items) RUR 2.4 billion.
2002
Education RUR 42 billion
Science RUR 2.4 billion
Science Education
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Strategic goal of the Russian school of higher
learning forming an IP commercialization system

• Higher educational institutions conduct a
  considerable volume fundamental, exploratory, and
  applied research in priority areas of science and
  technology, and create IP.
• IP potential is an important economy resource
  that should become a factor of economic
  development of the school of higher learning.
• The priority objective of the Russian Education
  Ministry is boosting the activity of the school
  of higher learning in the sphere of intellectual
  property creation and commercialization.

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Activity of the Russian Education Ministry in the
sphere of IP and innovative policy

• Special scientific programs have been adopted in
  2000-2003 to study the most acute IP problems.
• An Expert Council for IP and Innovation has been
  set up.
• A Concept of Scientific, Technological, and
  Innovative Policy in the Russian Educational
  System has been adopted for 2001-2005.
• A draft IP Policy Concept of the school of
  higher learning has been developed.
• Regulatory acts of the Russian Education Ministry
  regulating problems of management of IP and
  innovative activity have been enforced.

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Number of computer programs, databases, integral
electronic chips topology, and applications to
industrial property objects
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Number of exhibits of the Russian school of
higher learning displayed in 2002
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International scientific-technological
exhibitions and Invention Salons

• The Russian Education Ministry presented 60 out
  of the total of 202 Russian exhibits at
  international expositions in 2002-2003
• Exhibits presented by the Russian Education
  Ministry at international exhibitions and salons
  in 2002-2003 were awarded
• - 35 gold medals
• - 15 silver medals
• - 10 bronze medals.

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General regional development tasks solved in
cooperation with the school of higher learning

• developing models and strategies of
  socioeconomic development of regions
• systematic evaluation of the resource potential
  and development of a resource management
  mechanism
• forming a scientific-innovative infrastructure
  employing the innovative potential of the school
  of higher learning
• scientific and technological monitoring of the
  leading sectors of the regional economy
• analyzing the structure of production potential
  and its conformity to the most characteristic
  world economic development trends
• evaluating the regions scientific and
  technological potential as a major transformation
  factor
• IP commercialization

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Problems of commercialization at the Russian
universities

• Lack of target financing of RD commercialization
  and IP protection at higher educational
  institutions.
• Low level of RD commercialization.
• Lack of statistics and monitoring of RD
  commercialization activities.
• Insufficient number of licenses and patents,
  inconsistent with the volume and scientific level
  of RD.
• Lack of qualified IP commercialization personnel.

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Russian school of higher learning IP
commercialization objectives

• Developing methods of legal protection management
  and commercialization of IP created by
  universities.
• Creating an infrastructure necessary for IP
  commercialization at the regional universities.
• Creating a multilevel system of personnel
  training for IP commercialization.
• Improvement of the legal framework of IP within
  the Russian system of schools of higher learning.
• Promoting the formation of multi-channel
  financing for IP commercialization.
• Regional policy implementation.

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Inter-university scientific and technical programs

• Innovative activity of the school of higher
  learning in 2002.
• The section Innovation of the program
  Scientific Research of the School of Higher
  Learning in Priority Areas of Science and
  Technology in 2001.
• University innovations and application of
  intellectual property in 2000.
• Small business in science and scientific
  servicing of higher educational institutions in
  1998-2000.
• Invigoration of innovative scientific and
  technical activity in Russia in 1997-2000.
• Technology parks and innovations in - 1992-2000.

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Scientific and technical program Innovative
Activity of the School of Higher Learning
1. Development of the innovative complex
infrastructure 2. Innovative scientific-methodolog
ical educational projects 3. Innovative
scientific and technological projects
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Regional innovative system (regional cluster,
innovative development territory)
Regional innovative system of the school of
higher learning
Regional innovative venture business market
Regional innovative system of industrial branches
Regional innovative market. Coordinating
administrative authority
Regional innovative system of the
military-industrial complex
Regional innovative system of the Academy of
Sciences
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Innovative clusters of the national innovative
system
Region 1
- School of higher learning
Region 2
Region N

• Ministry of
• Atomic Energy

Innovative
- RAN
Russia
- Military-Industrial Complex
Region 5
Region 3
environment
- Russian Ministry of Industry and Science
Region 4
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Regional university-based innovative system
cluster
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Interdepartmental cooperation of the Russian
Education Ministry
Total 30 agreements
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Interdepartmental cooperation program
1. Fundamental research 2. Applied RD 3.
Scientific-educational projects
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THE RUSSIAN EDUCATION MINISTRY AND ATOMIC POWER
MINISTRY INTERDEPARTMENTAL PROGRAM IS IMPLEMENTED
WITH PARTICIPATION OF 66 UNIVERSITIES,
IMPLEMENTING PROJECTS IN THE INTERESTS OF 43
SCIENTIFIC-PRODUCTION ORGANIZATIONS OF THE
RUSSIAN ATOMIC POWER MINISTRY
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Support and development of small business within
the Russian school of higher learning is based on

• the joint decree of the Russian Education
  Ministry and the Russian MAP of 20.04.2001,
• the interdepartmental cooperation program between
  the Russian Education Ministry and the Russian
  MAP,
• the scientific technical program Innovative
  Activity of the School of Higher Learning
• the session of the Russian Education Ministry
  Collegium is scheduled for 20.01.2004

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60 advanced companies
Technological Village (20,000m2)
Research laboratories and manufacturing
premises for innovation companies
Zelenograd Innovation Technological
Centre (4,200m2)
Innovation centre of new technologies (1,500m2)
11 advanced companies
Business Incubator Technopark(400m2)
3 mid-size companies
26,100m2
6,100m2
19 small companies
1,900 m2
400m2
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Small business in Russia

• There are 900,000 small enterprises in the
  Russian Federation
• Employing 12.7 million people -
• 17.7 of economically active national population.
• This is considerably less than in developed
  European countries.
• The share of employment in small business of
  European countries is 65.8.

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Small business in Russia

• Within the system of the Russian school of higher
  learning,
• 2 000 small enterprises were operating in 2002
• 20 000 new jobs were created.
• Total financing of the innovative infrastructure
  equals RUR 11.2 million.
• Total financing of the innovative infrastructure
  development by the higher education sector equals
  RUR 500 million.
• Extrabudgetary financing totals RUR 400 million.

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Fundamental Research and Higher Education
Program (BRHE)

• Financing
• MacArthur Foundation, Carnegie Corporation - 50
  
• Russian Education Ministry - 25
• Regional administration - 25
• BRHE Program implementation period 1997 -
  2012
• For the first time
• 1) The MacArthur Foundation finances natural
  sciences
• 2) The Russian Education Ministry co-finances a
  joint scientific program

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Research Educational Centers (REC)

• Integration of scientific research and the
  education process
• Development of the experimental basis for
  advanced scientific research and education
• Developing international connections
• Support of young teachers and scientists on
  competition basis
• Intellectual property commercialization

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Intellectual property commercialization and
technology transfer offices under the BRHE Program

• Competition between 12 REC for TTO creation in
  2003
• Winners of TTO competition at four universities
• SPSU, the Ural STU, the Nizhny Novgorod SU, the
  Tomsk SU
• IP commercialization seminar in the USA
• The goal of the BRHE Program is to create TTO at
  other REC

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Federal network of highly professional Research
and Education Centers (REC)
St.Petersburg REC SPGGI, SPSU TTO
Petrozavodsk REC PetrSU
Kazan REC KazSU
Moscow REC MIFI, MFTI
Voronezh REC VorSU
Nizhny Novgorod REC NNSU TTO
Yekaterinburg REC UrSU, UrSTU TTO
Perm REC PermSU
Vladivostok REC DVSU
Krasnoyarsk REC KrasSU
Samara REC SamSU
Saratov REC SSU
Tomsk REC TSU TTO
Novosibirsk REC NSU
Rostov-on-Don REC RSU, TRSU
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Program of TTO creation at the Russian
universities REC Period - 3 years
By the end of 2004, TTO are expected to be set up
at 12 REC
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Results of four pilot TTO RD analyzed -
600Recommended for technology transfer -
67Websites are created by all four TTO
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Formation and demonstration of positive precedents
1. Nine innovative projects are underway,
including four projects from external
organizations - geo-information systems -
nanotechnologies - legal produce protection
technologies - new generation stop valves
production technology - portable EHF-therapy
device - alternative timber-processing
technologies (3) - colored ceramic glass
coating application technology 2. Activities -
Partnerships for Prosperity Security Conference
exhibition,Philadelphia, USA, 3-5 November
2003- BISNIS Program, USA- Industry Oriented
Travel Grants Program, First Steps to Market
Grants Program, Next Steps to the Market Grants
Program, CRDF - French-Russian Technology
Network (RFR) - England- Classic method.
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Structure of UrSTU innovative activity proceeds
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REC-012, SPSU technology transfer

• RD topics analyzed - 49
• Number of perspective technologies - 27
• Innovative projects underway - 7
• Technologies selected for innovative projects in
  the sphere of biotechnology, new materials,
  ecology, nature conservation.

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Commercialization at universities
Education (federal budget)
Education (extrabudgetary funds)
Science (non-federal budget)
Science (federal budget)
Commercialization proceeds
Commercialization proceeds
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Development of IP commercialization in Russia is
necessary for creating

• a new knowledge-based economy,
• innovation development territories,
• New additional sources of university and REC
  financing.