Technology transfer to SME

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Technology transfer to SME

• Russian experience

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Years 1990 - 2003

• 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

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Years 2004 - 2008

• 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 RD 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

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Tested TT Instruments

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

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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

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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

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TTO as a part of BRHE program (CRDF)
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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 RR results, relied
  on support by Government
• Innovative Technological Centers (77)
• - Self-sustaining facilities, latest stages of
  breeding, partially incubating

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Information services

• Knowledge and data bases (RFBR, FASIE,
  Universities and RAS)
• Information resources www.miiris.ru (public)
  www.innovbusiness.ru (private), www.rttn.ru
  (public)
• Russian-French technological network www.rfr.ru
• Britain-Russian Innovation Network (BRIN), (8 UK
  IRCs and 16 RTTN members), TO/TR data base 440
  profiles, www.brin-net.ru
• Russian consortium of information networks
  RUITCRTTNRA (90 BIC, ITC, TTC, TP)

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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 www.ras-stc.ru
• Innovative Enterprise Initiative by French
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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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

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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 its commercialization
• Rosnauka finances University for training
• FASIE assists technology commercialization by SIE
  

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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Performance Indicators
Indicator 2008 2009 2010-2011 2012-2013
Total number of clients 3000 3500 4000 5500
The number of Russian Centres 20 40 50 60
The number of assisted Russian clients 1600 2030 2200 3500
SMEs 1200 1500 1600 1800
- RD organisations 350 450 500 520
The number of European partners 6 10 15 20
The number of initiated projects of RF-EU technological co-operation 7 15 30 40
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