Activity of Russian universities in the sphere of technology commercialization M.N.Strikhanov Deputy Education Minister of the Russian Federation.

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 economyKnowledge-based economy

SCIENCE

New economyNew economy: : essence of notionsessence of notions

is a block of sectors characterized with greater human capital investment compared to the material factoris a block of sectors characterized with greater human capital investment compared to the material factor

• professional education;

• information and communication markets;

• output of innovations;

• intellectual services

• professional education;

• information and communication markets;

• output of innovations;

• intellectual services

Development of “a new economy” is one Development of “a new economy” is one of priority areas of the Russian Federation of priority areas of the Russian Federation

government policygovernment policy

A new economyA new economy

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.

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

Commercialization of Science as a Method of Overcoming a Decline in Science

COMMERCIALIZATION OF SCIENCE

Recovering lost positions

on the world marketReinvestment of funds

Maintaining personnelpotential

Enhancing financialeducation

Increasing the financing of

fundamental research

Solving acute social problems

Problems of commercialization in Russia

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

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 R&D as the basis for the innovative process.

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University’s Mission

Scientific research-training specialists

New university mission

1. Academic innovations2. Know-how services and R&D commercialization

University management

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

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 centersPersonnel• 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

Russian Federation Education Ministry Financing Higher education financing (14 items) - RUR 42 billion.

Financing scientific research in education (06 items) – RUR 2.4 billion.

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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.

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.

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 exhibitions University-based exhibitions

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.

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 region’s scientific and technological potential as a major transformation factor• IP commercialization

Problems of commercialization at the Russian universities

• Lack of target financing of R&D commercialization and IP protection at higher educational institutions.

• Low level of R&D commercialization.• Lack of statistics and monitoring of R&D

commercialization activities.• Insufficient number of licenses and patents, inconsistent

with the volume and scientific level of R&D. • Lack of qualified IP commercialization personnel.

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.

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.

Scientific and technical program “Innovative Activity of the School of Higher Learning”

1. Development of the innovative complex infrastructure2. Innovative scientific-methodological educational projects3. Innovative scientific and technological projects

Regional innovative system of the school of higher

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Regional innovative

venture business market

Regional innovative system of the Academy

of Sciences

Regional innovative system of the military-

industrial complex

Regional innovative system of industrial

branches

Regional innovative system (regional cluster, innovative development territory)

Regional innovative market. Coordinating

administrative authority

Innovative clusters of the national innovative system

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Region N

Region 5

Region 4

Region 3

Region 2 - School of higher

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- RAN

- Russian Ministry of Industry and

Science

- Military-Industrial Complex

- Ministry of Atomic Energy

Regional university-based innovative system cluster

Program of scientific-innovative cooperation Ministry, agency

Launched Financed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

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Russian Minatom RF Defense Ministry RF Ministry of Economic Development RF Ministry of Nature Conservation RF Ministry of Industry & Science Russian Spetsstroi RAKA RAV RASU OJSC Gazprom JSC AVTOVAZ

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Interdepartmental cooperation of the Russian Education Ministry

Total: 30 agreements

Interdepartmental cooperation program

1. Fundamental research

2. Applied R&D

3. Scientific-educational projects

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

Support and development of small business within the Russian school of higher learning

is based onthe 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

Innovation centre ofnew technologies

(1,500m2)

Zelenograd InnovationTechnological Centre

(4,200m2)

Technological Village

(20,000m2)

19 smallcompanies

11 advanced companies

60 advanced companies

400m2

1,900 m2

6,100m2

26,100m2

3 mid-sizecompanies

BusinessIncubator

Technopark(400m2)

Research laboratories and manufacturing premises forinnovation companies

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%.

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.

“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 sciences2) The Russian Education Ministry co-finances a joint

scientific program

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

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

Federal network of highly professional Research and Education Centers (REC)

St.Petersburg REC: SPGGI, SPSU TTO PetrozavodskREC — PetrSU

KrasnoyarskREC — KrasSU

KazanREC — KazSU

YekaterinburgREC — UrSU, UrSTU

TTO

Rostov-on-DonREC — RSU, TRSU

SaratovREC — SSU

SamaraREC — SamSU

TomskREC — TSU

TTONovosibirskREC — NSU

VladivostokREC — DVSU

MoscowREC — MIFI, MFTI

Nizhny NovgorodREC — NNSU

TTO PermREC — PermSU

Voronezh REC — VorSU

Program of TTO creation at the Russian universities’ REC

Period - 3 years

Annual TTO Financing

CRDF RUR 844,000

Russian Education Ministy RUR

281,000

By the end of 2004, TTO are expected to be set up at 12 REC

Results of four pilot TTO R&D analyzed - 600

Recommended for technology transfer - 67Websites are created by all four TTO

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International expositions University-basedexpositions

Number of exhibits prsented by TTO at expositions

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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Innovation ineducationInnovation in science

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REC-012, SPSU technology transfer

• R&D 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.

Commercialization at universitiesCommercialization at universities

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Education (federal budget)

Education (extrabudgetary funds)

Science (non-federal budget)

Science (federal budget)

Commercialization proceeds

Commercialization proceeds

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.