On October 30, 2015, at the Open Innovation Forum, Igor Agamirzyan, RVC CEO, and Eduard Galazhinsky, rector of Tomsk State University, signed a cooperation agreement
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On October 29, the draft National Report "On innovations in Russia" was presented at "Open Innovation" Forum. The report provides a qualitative assessment of the current state of the Russian innovation ecosystem and the effectiveness of the last years reforms, as well as defines key areas for federal innovation policy adjustments
On October 29, 2015, Igor Agamirzyan, RVC CEO, and Dr. Heuijae Pahk, President & National CTO of MOTIE Office of Strategic R & D Planning, signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of technological innovations. The document was signed in Moscow as part of the "Open Innovation" Forum
On October 28, the "Open Innovation" Forum held the "Venture capital investment – 2015" National Award Ceremony. The award established by RVCA and RVC in 2014, is awarded to the leaders of Russian VC industry - to the funds demonstrating a high class and investment culture, establishing professional standards of business practices and identifying key trends in the domestic venture capital industry
On October 28, during Open Innovation Moscow International Forum, the winners of TechUspekh, fourth national rating of Russian high-growth companies, were announced. According to the rating results, the technological "gazelles" made a breakthrough last year in terms of revenue growth: if in 2013, the growth of the total revenues was 18%, in 2014 it reached 35%
On October 28, in Moscow, the "Open Innovation" Forum held a solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of V Russian National Contest of Innovation Journalism "Tech in Media", established by RVC. The contest aim is at encourage and promote activities of the journalists covering the topic of scientific development, successful examples of commercialization, as well as attracting attention of larger segment of society to the issues of technological development of Russia
VTB24 became a partner of GenerationS, Federal Startup Accelerator, organized by the fund of funds and RVC OJSC Institute for development. The Bank introduced its own nomination "Your business opportunities" for the contest participants and prepared a special prize for the best project author. The award ceremony will be held in Moscow on November 24
Regional sessions are interesting and necessary to the regions as, first of all, the work with companies is carried out in the field, and the federal experts are totally in the local context. Regional Practical Consulting Sessions (RPCS) represent the RVC's own format
On October 17, 2015 in Togliatti the most successful aerospace projects were identified at the GenerationS which was organized by RVC
On October 16, 2015 the Presidium of the Council for Economic Modernization and Innovative Development of the Russian Federation approved the draft four 'roadmaps' of the National Technological Initiative (NTI) – AeroNet, AvtoNet, MariNet, and NeuroNet. In the near future, they will be reviewed by the RF Government
On October 2nd, within the framework of the opening of the Central Regional Platform of the Festival of Sciences in Krasnoyarsk the winners of laureates of the third regional stage of “Popular Science” completion (innovative journalism Tech in Media founded by RVC) were announced
On October 13th, as part of Robonights in Skolkovo’s HyperCube they drew the results of the Robotics federal startup accelerator by GenerationS organized by RVC. The best robotics project of GenerationS was a Krasnodar-based self-propelled platform designed for extreme conditions
Last week, five finalists were identified within Telecom Idea GenerationS track – MTS’s corporate accelerator within the framework of the international youth innovative projects competition “Telecom Idea” which is organized together with RVC. The projects are selected by the expert jury and they will compete to win the GenerationS 2015 and the status of one of the three best technological startups in the nation
III Moscow Corporate Venture Summit will take place on November 24, 2015 in the Central House of Entrepreneurs
RVC and the Federal State-Funded Institution Russian technology Agency signed an agreement on cooperation within the framework of the National Technological Initiative (NTI)
One of the most important tasks for the development of the national economy of the Russian Federation is the increase of the economic effect from investment in sciences and education, specifically, growth from commercialization of scientific technologies and developments by universities
On October 8, 2015 the Corporate Venture Fund Management Program was launched
PJSC Mobile TeleSystems (NYSE: MBT), the leading telecommunications provider in Russia and CIS countries, announces the start of its Corporate Accelerator within the framework of the international young innovative projects competition – Telecom Idea – in cooperation with RVC
RVC delegation took part in the IX Samara Interregional Economic Forum “Cluster Policy as Foundation for Innovative Growth of the National Economy” organized at the initiative of Samara Region Government with the support from the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation. Evgeny Kuznetsov, Deputy General Director, headed the delegation
The Russian Venture Company (RVC) and Intel Corporation entered into an agreement on strategic cooperation