Activity of Russian universities in the
sphere of technology commercialization
M.N.Strikhanov
Deputy Education Minister of the
Russian Federation
SCIENCE
Cooperation
Communications
Innovative systems
Education
Knowledge-based economy
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
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professional education;
information and communication markets;
output of innovations;
intellectual services
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 market
Enhancing financial
education
Reinvestment of funds
Increasing the
financing of
fundamental research
Maintaining personnel
potential
Solving acute
social problems
Problems of commercialization in Russia
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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.
Сотрудничество по созданию
национальной инновационной системы
Минпромнауки России
Российская
Академия наук
Минэкономразвития
России
Минобразования
России
МЕЖВУЗОВСКИЕ
ИННОВАЦИОННЫЕ
НАУЧНО-ТЕХНИЧЕСКИЕ
ПРОГРАММЫ
Фонд Содействия развитию
малых форм предприятий
в научно-технической
сфере
University’s Mission
Scientific research-training specialists
New university mission
1. Academic innovations
2. Know-how services and R&D
commercialization
University management
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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 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
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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40
2002
35
30
25
20
15
10
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Education RUR 42 billion
Science RUR 2.4
billion
Science
Education = 6%
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 20002003 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
4000
3288
3237
2951
3000
Programs,
databases,
electronic chips
topology
2000
1404
1205
1000
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2000
2001
2002
Applications for
industrial
property objects
Number of exhibits of the Russian school of
higher learning displayed in 2002
45000
40000
35000
30000
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
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43096
11203
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
infrastructure
2. Innovative scientific-methodological educational
projects
3. Innovative scientific and technological projects
Regional innovative system (regional cluster, innovative
development territory)
Regional innovative
system of the school of
higher learning
Regional innovative
system of industrial
branches
Regional innovative
market. Coordinating
administrative
authority
Regional innovative
system of the
military-industrial
complex
Regional
innovative
venture business
market
Regional
innovative system
of the Academy of
Sciences
Innovative clusters of the national innovative
system
Region 1
- School of higher
learning
Region 2
Region N
- Ministry of
Atomic Energy
- RAN
Russia
Region 5
Region 3
Region 4
- MilitaryIndustrial
Complex
- Russian Ministry
of Industry and
Science
Regional university-based innovative system cluster
Interdepartmental cooperation of the
Russian Education Ministry
Program of scientific-innovative cooperation
Ministry, agency
1 Russian Minatom
2 RF Defense Ministry
3 RF Ministry of
Economic
4 Development
5 RF Ministry of Nature
Conservation
6 RF Ministry of Industry
7 & Science
8 Russian Spetsstroi
9 RAKA
10 RAV
11 RASU
OJSC Gazprom
JSC AVTOVAZ
Launched
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Financed
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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 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
Research laboratories
and manufacturing
premises for
innovation companies
60 advanced
companies
Technological
Village
(20,000m2)
Zelenograd Innovation
Technological Centre
(4,200m2)
Innovation centre of
new technologies
(1,500m2)
Business
Incubator
Technopark
(400m2)
11 advanced
companies
3 mid-size
companies
26,100m2
6,100m2
19 small
companies
1,900 m2
400m2
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 sciences
2) 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
Voronezh
REC — VorSU
Moscow
REC — MIFI, MFTI
Nizhny Novgorod
REC — NNSU
TTO
Perm
REC — PermSU
Saratov
REC — SSU
Rostov-on-Don
REC — RSU, TRSU
Kazan
REC — KazSU
Yekaterinburg
REC — UrSU, UrSTU
TTO
Krasnoyarsk
REC — KrasSU
Samara
REC — SamSU
Tomsk
REC — TSU
TTO
Petrozavodsk
REC — PetrSU
Novosibirsk
REC — NSU
Vladivostok
REC — DVSU
Program of TTO creation at the Russian
universities’ REC
Period - 3 years
Annual TTO Financing
Russian Education
Ministy RUR
281,000
CRDF
RUR 844,000
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 - 67
Websites are created by all four TTO
Number of exhibits prsented by TTO at
expositions
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30
25
20
15
10
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31
12
International expositions
University-based
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.
Structure of UrSTU innovative activity
proceeds
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70
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40
30
20
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51
Innovation in
education
Innovation in science
32
Innovation proceeds
63
40
36
27
22
18
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2001
2002
2003
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 universities
Education (federal budget)
Education (extrabudgetary funds)
TomSU
Science (non-federal budget)
5%
17%
Science (federal budget)
43%
35%
Commercialization proceeds
Oxford University
Commercialization
proceeds
18%
11%
11%
48%
12%
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.