2. WHY SKOLKOVO?
Normal Technology Life Cycle
Technology maturity / market acceptance
Private Large Corporates
Equity
IPOs Commoditization of
Technology
Entrepreneurs
Early
Late
Mid
Basic Applied
ResearchResearch
VC
Time
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3. WHY SKOLKOVO?
Current Russian Situation
The gap:
Technology maturity / market acceptance
โข Research not linked to market
โข Little early-stage financing or services
โข Result: weak commercialization
Private Large Corporates
Equity
IPOs Commoditization of
Technology
Entrepreneurs
Early
Late
Mid
Basic Applied
ResearchResearch
VC
Time
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4. + A FEW MORE GAPS
Practices of sponsored research
Culture of entrepreneurship
Institutional environment
R&D infrastructure
> Low productivity + brain drain
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6. SKOLKOVO CITY
Key figures:
โข 400 hectares
โข 10 000 residents
โข 26 000 total employed
โข 6 000 professional jobs
โข Pedestrian-oriented master
plan
โข Sustainable design, LEED
certified
โข 2014 completion date (phase 1)
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7. SPECIAL ECONOMIC REGIME
No VAT or profit tax for 10 years
14% unified social tax rate (vs. normal 34%)
Refund of customs duties and VAT on imported
equipment
Own customs service; simplified migration law
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8. 5 THEMATIC AREAS = RU MODERNIZATION PRIORITIES
Energy: efficiency, saving, new energy technologies
IT: software, engineering, devices
Biomed: biotech, drugs, devices
Space:
telecom, navigation, imaging, life
systems
Nuclear: medicine, energy,
materials
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9. KEY ELEMENTS OF SKOLKOVO ECOSYSTEM
โข University+
โข Startups
โข Corporate R&D centers
โข VC funds
โข Moscow School of
Management
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10. TECHNOPARK SUPPORTING STARTUPS
Skolkovo Skolkovo
Clusters Institute Funds
Other
Universities
Coaching Spin-off Market
& training center assistance
Corporate External
Infrastructure services Funding venture
funds
Technopark
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12. THE ROLE OF CORPORATE PARTNERS
1. Create and operate R&D centers in Skolkovo
2. Evaluate Skolkovoโs pipeline of promising technologies &
advise on strategy
3. Co-invest in promising Skolkovo start-ups
4. Offer early commercialization opportunities to Skolkovo
startups
5. Fund research at SkTech
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13. SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Worldโs first graduate
university to fully-integrate
research, education,
innovation and
entrepreneurship
โข 1200 graduate students and 200 Strategic partner:
faculty by 2018
โข 5 programs, 15 multi-university
research centers
โข Source of expertise in Skolkovo
โข Source of high-caliber talent
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14. SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE: NEGOTIATIONS
MIT faculty
Ru academics
Ru management and legal
Government
1. Role of faculty in the US
2. Distribution of faculty time (1/3 spent pitching)
โฆ
3. Need of a model
4. Services contract, quantity v quality bureaucratic control
5. Gap between capacity to deliver and capacity to assimilate Pride
6. Quality v speed (political logic) Distance to power
7. Interdisciplinarity; complex collaborations Trust
Cultural bias? How do we deal with it in Skolkovo?
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18. THE SOLUTION?
Close the gap with tools for efficient commercialization
Technology maturity / market acceptance
Skolkovo โEcosystemโ
Skolkovo Institute
Large Corporates
Innovation Center
โข 5 clusters
Commoditization of
โข Technopark
Technology
โข Key partners
Entrepreneurs
VC
Venture Capital
Early
Mid
Late
Basic Applied
Research ResearchCity Infrastructure
Time
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19. MISSION
Skolkovo is a strategic development initiative to:
โข Develop human capital through world-
class research and education
โข Diversify and grow Russiaโs economy
through innovation and entrepreneurship
โข Integrate Russia into global networks of
technology and knowledge exchange
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20. GUIDING PRINCIPLES
Open, transparent, and fair: essential to
attract world-class talent, institutions and
businesses
International standards
Maximum private sector participation
Self-sustaining over time
Physical and virtual layers
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21. WHAT SKOLKOVO IS, WHAT SKOLKOVO IS NOT
We provide financial grants We are not an investment
fund; we do not invest, take
We are non-profit equity stakes or board seats
We finance and support R&D We donโt finance production or
and early-stage companies advanced commercial activity
We are a platform for We are not a sales agent
international collaboration in
R&D and technology transfer
We support and finance both We are not limited to Russian
Russian and international technology; our mandate is to
innovation enhance 2-way tech transfer
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22. SKOLKOVO ENVIRONMENT / CULTURE: OPEN QUESTIONS
Mixed communities v compartmentalized
Open to external audiences v closed
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