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1. Skolkovo:
serious about
software
Albert Yefimov
Skolkovo IT Cluster

2. Skolkovo started in 2010 ...
http://eng.kremlin.ru/news/1017

3. … with important benefits …
• Our land:
• 1.5 from Moscow;
• 4.5 sq km; Новоивановское
• ~ 25 mln sqm of buildings in Марфино
2015;
• Up to 31 000 people living in
2016;
д.Сколково
• 20 min from city downtown by
train in 2015. Немчиново
• Taxes are smallest in Russia;
• Customs and visas are easy;
• Strong IP protection institution. Баковка

4. … and our Results in 2013
• First operational building – “Hypercube”;
• 200 students in SkolTech and Open
University;
• 790 startups;
• 179 state grants up to 3 years ~ $277 mln;
• Dozens of innovation contests
• 143 IP filings;
• Startups revenues in 2012 ~ $50 mln;
• Loyal venture funds allocated ~ $600 mln;
• 24 MNCs signed agreements on R&D
centers.

5. Right People at the Top
Skolkovo Foundation Council - highest decision
making body of the Skolkovo Foundation

6. Right People at the Top
Skolkovo Foundation Council - highest decision
making body of the Skolkovo Foundation
John T. Chambers Craig Barrett Eric E. Schmidt Peter Löscher Esko Aho Victor Vekselberg
Chairman and CEO Former CEO of Intel Chairman and CEO CEO of Siemens AG Former PM of President of
of Cisco. of Google Finland Foundation
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7. Right People at the Top
Skolkovo Foundation Council - highest decision
making body of the Skolkovo Foundation
John T. Chambers Craig Barrett Eric E. Schmidt Peter Löscher Esko Aho Victor Vekselberg
Chairman and CEO Former CEO of Intel Chairman and CEO CEO of Siemens AG Former PM of President of
of Cisco. of Google Finland Foundation
Scientific Advisory Council - sets priorities for
R&D at Skolkovo
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8. Right People at the Top
Skolkovo Foundation Council - highest decision
making body of the Skolkovo Foundation
John T. Chambers Craig Barrett Eric E. Schmidt Peter Löscher Esko Aho Victor Vekselberg
Chairman and CEO Former CEO of Intel Chairman and CEO CEO of Siemens AG Former PM of President of
of Cisco. of Google Finland Foundation
Scientific Advisory Council - sets priorities for
R&D at Skolkovo.
Roger David Zhores Alferov Jean-Mari Lehn, Valery Kozlov Siegfried Dais Richard Lerner
Kornberg, Nobel Nobel Prize laureate Nobel Prize laureate VP, Russian Vice-Chairman, President, Scripps
Prize laureate Academy of Sciences Bosch GmbH Research Institute 8

9. Skolkovo Mission
DIVERSIFY THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY THROUGH INNOVATION AND
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
INTEGRATE RUSSIAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INTO THE GLOBAL
ECONOMY
DEVELOP HUMAN CAPITAL THROUGH WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH
NURTURE COMPETITIVE KNOWLEDGE-BASED COMPANIES
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10. Our unique ecosystem
Based on the best
of the best in
russian innovators Start-ups MIT
partnership
Project
Science &
Key Skolkovo
Partners Tech
University
Allocated $ 600
Basis for Venture mln
“innovation Capital
spillover”

11. Benefits are good too for
such unique ecosystem!
No
Incubator
Mentoring Housing Customs
Duty
Venture Non- No VAT & Visas
Diluting Income for
Capital Grants tax Foreigners
Accounting Shared-
Insurance
and Legal premiums use
services CAPEX

12. Our Key Partners:
International Companies: Russian Companies :
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13. Examples of R&D activity
by Key Partners
EADS Russian Technology Office at IBM Research Center at Nokia Research Center at Siemens Research Center at
Skolkovo: Skolkovo: Skolkovo: Skolkovo:
about 400 sq. m. about 2 000 sq. m. about 500 sq. m. about 4 000 sq. m.
15 employees 150 employees 25 employees 150 employees
R&D plan: R&D plan: Nokia Ventures co-operation R&D plan:
Project 1 – IT Security Energy & Utility: with Skolkovo Project 1 – VHF-systems
Project 2 – Complex engineering Project 1 – Energy storage R&D plan: Project 2 – Analytical software
solutions Project 2 – Analytical software Project 1 – Flexible electronics Project 3 – New energy
Project 3 – "Green" Energy Biomedical: research project generation
Project 4 – Energy storage Project 3 – Computer aided drug Project 2 – Wireless sensor Project 4 – Personalized
design networks medicine
IT:
Project 4 – Software for the
financial and banking sectors
Project 5 – IT in medicine and
health care

14. Five Clusters
Energy IT BioMed Space Nuclear
Energy Efficiency & Hardware, Pharmaceuticals, Space Technologies, Nuclear &
Cleantech Software Biotechnology, Tele- Radiation
& Distributed Medical Devices Communications Technologies,
Computation & & Materials
BioIT Navigation Systems &
Engineering
IT Cluster has 1 in 3 projects in Skolkovo

15. IT Cluster Foresight (2.0)
• Result of over 1,500 reviewed projects
• Interaction with leading industry institutions
Low High
Attractiveness
High
Long Term Potential High Priority Areas
“No Regret” Areas
Low
Low Priority Areas
Feasibility

16. New search and recognition technology New development and testing tools Development of Communication and
Tools and Means for
New solutions for searching and recognition New programming languages, new visual Navigation Technologies
of audio, video and images software development toolsl New way of increasing efficiency of existing
Application of semantics (sense) for Efficient requirements management systems communications including wireless and
information search and system engineering tools, tools for optical communications
New technologies in computer aided verification and validation in development New wired and wireless communication
Future Information
translation systems complex software systems. technologies
New environments and methods for teaching New geoinformation and navigation systems
New data storage, processing and
software engineering, programming languages (including global positioning technologies)
transmission methods (More than Moore)
and usage of IT technologies.
Development of new nanodevices for
information storage and processing for energy Development of new high performance Secure Information Technologies
Technologies
efficient equipment
New research and development in photonics,
nanophotonics and metamaterials, including
integrated optical systems; fully optical
computing and data storage systems
New algorithms for high parallel computing;
Development of new communication topology
and interaction protocols for improvement of
New biometric and identification systems
New applications and infrastructure solutions
for increasing internet security
New applications and infrastructure solutions
computing devices; data storage and exchange energy efficiency, failure resistance and for cyber threats prevention and cyber
Development
devices and hybrid optical components for
conventional computers
New ideas in quantum informatics
Development of new high speed electronic
reduction of exchange time between system
elements.
IT
New applications for supercomputers.
Exaflop computers;
investigations
New applications and infrastructure solutions
for data protection in cloud and distributed
computation
devices and materials for prospective New software for high-performance and
acquisition, storage, processing and reliable data storage systems
information transmission methods including New Human-Machine Interfaces for Any
wireless networks.
New materials and nanotechnologies for
manufacturing of optoelectronic and
electronic devices and circuits
Applications
Ubiquitous and Cloud Computing
New software for interaction between
autonomous (including transport and mobile)
devices
New technological elements of data
Applications
New methods for usage of gestures, vision and
voice interfaces for computer systems control
New methods and software for
neurocomputers’ interfaces
with
Processing of Large Data Arrays (big data transmission network infrastructure that link New methods, infrastructure solutions and
problem) physical and virtual objects by collection, software for augmented/modified realityNew
Development of new methods and algorithms processing and analysis of obtained data.New applications and devices for better social
for collection, storage and intellectual analysis integrated sensors and sensor networks adaptation of people with limited abilites
of large volume of data Development of new elements of
New Technologies
New methods of distributed processing of big infrastructure and software for implementation
data of different models of provisioning of cloud
New methods and software for predictive services
modelling of complex engineering solutions

17. New search and recognition technology New development and testing tools Development of Communication and
New solutions for searching and recognition New programming languages, new visual Navigation Technologies
of audio, video and images software development tools New way of increasing efficiency of existing
Application of semantics (sense) for Efficient requirements management systems communications including wireless and
information search and system engineering tools, tools for optical communications
New technologies in computer aided verification and validation in development New wired and wireless communication
translation systems complex software systems. technologies
New environments and methods for teaching New geoinformation and navigation systems
New data storage, processing and
software engineering, programming languages (including global positioning technologies)
transmission methods (More than Moore)
and usage of IT technologies.
Development of new nanodevices for
information storage and processing for energy Development of new high performance Secure Information Technologies
efficient equipment computing and data storage systems New biometric and identification systems
New research and development in photonics, New algorithms for high parallel computing; New applications and infrastructure solutions
nanophotonics and metamaterials, including Development of new communication topology for increasing internet security
integrated optical systems; fully optical and interaction protocols for improvement of New applications and infrastructure solutions
computing devices; data storage and exchange energy efficiency, failure resistance and for cyber threats prevention and cyber
devices and hybrid optical components for reduction of exchange time between system investigations
conventional computers elements. New applications and infrastructure solutions
New ideas in quantum informatics New applications for supercomputers. for data protection in cloud and distributed
Development of new high speed electronic Exaflop computers; computation
devices and materials for prospective New software for high-performance and
acquisition, storage, processing and reliable data storage systems
information transmission methods including New Human-Machine Interfaces for Any
wireless networks. Ubiquitous and Cloud Computing Applications
New materials and nanotechnologies for New software for interaction between New methods for usage of gestures, vision and
manufacturing of optoelectronic and autonomous (including transport and mobile) voice interfaces for computer systems control
electronic devices and circuits devices New methods and software for
New technological elements of data neurocomputers’ interfaces
Processing of Large Data Arrays (big data transmission network infrastructure that link New methods, infrastructure solutions and
problem) physical and virtual objects by collection, software for augmented/modified realityNew
Development of new methods and algorithms processing and analysis of obtained data.New applications and devices for better social
for collection, storage and intellectual analysis integrated sensors and sensor networks adaptation of people with limited abilities
of large volume of data Development of new elements of
New methods of distributed processing of big infrastructure and software for implementation
data of different models of provisioning of cloud
New methods and software for predictive services
modelling of complex engineering solutions

18. How we select projects?
• Panel of 126 world class experts selects projects;
• For each incoming project randomly selected 10 experts answer a set of six
important questions:
1. Does project corresponds to one of clusters foresights?
2. Does product or technology has potential competitive advantage over world’s similar
products or technologies?
3. Does product or technology has significant commercial opportunity on Russian
market (minimum) and world market (in perspective)?
4. Is project theoretically feasible and don’t contradict fundamental scientific principles?
5. Do key researchers, developers and managers have necessary knowledge and
experience for successful project implementation?
6. Does project team has a member (or few members) with international experience in
research, development and commercialization of projects’ results?
If majority of experts answer “Yes”, then project is granted Skolkovo’s status!

19. Key strength of IT Cluster
Skolkovo Our Trends
Analitical software
Video and audio recognition
New ways of computing, storage and transmission of…
1
Mobile applications
Complex Engineering Systems
IT Security
2
Web X.0
New multimedia search
Embedded control systems
3
IT in Education
IT in Healthcare
Finance and Banking software
Cloud Computing
Wireless sensor networks
Green IT
0 10 20 30 40 50

20. Japan welcomes
Skolkovo
Japanese
students visits
our Technopark

21. Skolkovo welcomes
Japan
Japanese
students visits
our Technopark

22. Results are modest but
there are Results!
• Rock Flow Dynamics sells tNavigator to JOGMEC
• T8 set world record with OFS Furukawa Company
• Abbyy operates in Japan

23. Skolkovo M.D. Challenge

24. Skolkovo Robotics
Challenge

25. Skolkovo Robotics
Challenge
Possible nominations:
• A robotic platform for educational programs
• Automatic harvesting for agricultural purposes
• “Brain - Computer” interface
• ”Third Hand”
• Cognitive robots
• Personal protection robots
• Robotic delivery of goods to remote mobile groups
• Cheap and fast robotic arm

26. What we think of future Japan-
Russian collaboration?
• Take advantage of Russian talents and easy tax regime to
setup R&D centers or startup;
• Re-use our cool technologies, partnering with our startups
to conquer global markets;
• Offer cool technologies to our startups and research
centers for joint projects;
• Take advantage of our projects’ pipeline to see what is
happening.

27. Examples of our projects

28. Rock Flow Dynamics
• Recently JOGMEC bought a licencense for its product
tNavigator:
• This software is designed for running dynamic reservoir
simulations on engineers’ laptops, servers, and HPC
clusters.
• Unlike other competing software products, tNavigator
license pricing doesn’t depend on the number of cores
employed in the shared memory computing systems.
• One of the other distinctive features, which sets tNavigator
apart from any existing products, is the interactive user
control of the simulation run

29. T8: DWDM at 25 Tb/s
• For development of DWDM system 25Т needs to
transmit 250 channels 100G in С+L band, 33GHz
• Alternative – 62 channels 400G loses by transmission
distance.
• The project will require the development of domestic
module 100G with good spectrum characteristics and
33GHz grid, C+L band application.
• Т8 STC has got Skolkovo’s resident status due to DWDM
25T project.

30. World record set by joint
Russia and Japan team!

31. Science in Russia
• Russia contributed greatly to the
advancement of science and
technology.
• Spending on science and innovation
increased sharply in the last five 3 thousand
research
years institutions
World’s 8th
• Russia is one of world’s top ten largest state
spenders on innovation and science funding for
innovation
• Number of patent applications 60 scientific
increased by about 50% in the last ten towns
years Russian
Academy of
• Skolkovo is to link Russian science Sciences
with business and entrepreneurship
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32. •ありがとう!
In case of question please ask
Albert Yefimov (aefimov@sk.ru)