1. Innovative-Technological Center Yershov Sergei Nikolaevich, Director Tel: (8312) 34-59-01 director@itc.unn.ru

2. NNSU is the winner of the CRDF and the Russian Education Ministry tender for TTO creation (project NN-001-03-T) NNSU is the winner of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Science tender for TTC creation (state contract 32.400.11.3220 of 01.04.2003)

3. Main Knowledge Transfer Forms Inseparable from the bearer: consultative services; specialized educational services; technical, analytical, and designer services; fulfillment of R&D orders. Separable from the bearer: sale of scientific-technical and designer documentation; licensing, I.e. transfer of title to various forms of intellectual property (patents, trademarks, etc.), technology transfer; assignment or transfer of rights to use (licensing) intellectual property, I.e. objects of industrial property rights and copyrights; setting up "spin-out" companies, i.e. companies created by technology owners specially for its commercialization; setting up joint ventures; manufacturing and sale of produce.

4. Main Operating Principles: -considerable influence on extending the innovatively active economic sector on a larger territory; -methodological support in creation of similar offices at universities, research institutions, scientific-production associations, and other entities of the real economic sectors in Russian regions; -high replication potential of the results for constructing an efficient R&D commercialization system in Russia.

5. Main Problem – lack of adequate receptivity of science and industry to the need to step up innovative activity, based on -- the objective economic situation -- insufficient information on positive world and Russian innovative experience.

6. Main Lines of Activity Stimulating favorable economic conditions Forming an innovation-receptive environment Forming sources of financing Formation and demonstration of positive precedents of interaction between industry, science, and intermediaries. Creating an operating technology

7. 1. Jointly with a number of ministries of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government and the Council for Scientific-Technological and Innovative Policy at the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government: -The Law On Government Support of Innovative Activity in Nizhny Novgorod Region has been prepared (adopted by the Regional Legislative Assembly on 21.08.03); -The Program Innovations and High Technologies in Industry of the Nizhny Novgorod Region for the Period of 2003-2005 has been developed and adopted (Decree of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government 238 of 08.08.03); -The concept of the program Nizhny Novgorod Region – a Territory of Innovative Development has been developed and adopted by the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government (Decree of the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government 333 of 10.11.03); -The feasibility study of the pilot project Cluster of Innovative Development of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Based on the Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N.I.Lobachevsky has been developed and submitted to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government. Participation in Forming Favorable Legal and Economic Conditions

8. Education and Training Targets and Audience

9. Education and Training Senior executives of NNSU and its Scientific Research Institute (around 40 people): May-July 2003; Middle-rank executives, leading scholars of NNSU and its Scientific Research Institute (around 150 people): starting 15 December 2004; Graduate students and young NNSU scholars (approximately 100 people): October- December 2003; Directors of industrial enterprises, research institutions, higher educational institutions of the Nizhny Novgorod region (around 40 people): 12 November 2003; Leaders and representatives of the innovative activity support infrastructure, directors of small enterprises; scientific workers from 6 members of the RF representing the Volga Federal District (approximately 30 people): 20-21 November 2003; Middle-rank executives of industrial enterprises of Nizhny Novgorod region: 5-6 December 2003; Directors of regional branches of the Interregional Innovation Support Fund representing 15 members of the RF in the Volga Federal District: 25-26 December 2004; Middle-rank executives, leading scholars and specialists of industrial enterprises, research institutions, universities of the Nizhny Novgorod region (12 January 2004).

10. Enterprises Regulatory Framework Creation, conferral, and transfer of title to intellectual property created by the organization Obtaining title to intellectual property purchased by the organization and its usage Account and inventory of title to intellectual property

11. Formation of Sources of Financing Extrabudgetary sources - Volga Federal Region Innovators and Business Angels Fair, Nizhny Novgorod, April 2003. (Staff of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in the Volga Federal District); - Permanent seminar-presentation of innovative projects, ITS, NNSU, starting February 2003 (NANT, NNSU, MFSI, Nizhny Novgorod Regional Development Agency). Budgetary sources - Contest Volga Golden Innovations (Fund for Support of Small Enterprise Development in the Scientific and Technological Sphere, the British Council in Russia); - The Start program (Fund for Support of Small Enterprise Development in the Scientific and Technological Sphere); - Contest of the Nizhny Novgorod region innovative projects (Nizhny Novgorod Regional Government, NNSU).

12. Operating Technology System-integrated information and technological TTO management Inventory (results of planned and initiated R&D, innovating productions, IP objects, innovative project plans, etc.) Monitoring Technological Audit (complex expertise + recommendations to the project implementation form) Technology Transfer (request for R&D, consultations, NTD, licensing, spinout, joint venture) Personnel training (education, PR, advertising) Personnel training (TT specialists in units,commissioners) Personnel training (raising TTO experts qualification)

13. Formation and Demonstration of Positive Precedents 1. Project Portfolio: at zero stage 54 projects; at initial stage 10 projects (two of them are close to transfer to the next stage); at final stage 4 projects. 2. Activities: - Personal contacts; - Public functions (e.g., the exhibition Partnerships for Prosperity & Security Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 3-5 November 2003); - Net possibilities (e.g., the French-Russian Technological Network, BISNIS Program, USA).

14. Time The project of TTC creation is an innovative project (institutional innovation). Linear model of the innovative process: fro concept to sales Sales, servicing Concept Serial production Research R&D Prototype Small series Initial marketing Market entry

15. TTO Positioning NNSU External organizations NNSU TTC TTO ITC TTC TTO ITC TTO presentfuture

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