Technology

Commercialization

Center

Goals, Focus, Structure & Activities

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

March 2014

One of the leading universities in Russia

- Over 30,000 students,

- 19 departments,

- 136 chairs and,

- 6 research institutes

Our University at a Glance

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UNN offers educational programs in:

- 52 specialties;

- 32 Bachelor’s programs,

- 28 Master’s programs, and;

- 13 programs for intermediate professional education.

- 61 programs for postgraduate & postdoctoral students,

- and 17 dissertation councils awarding doctoral degrees

(Candidate or Doctor of Sciences) in 35 fields of studies.

Leading National Research University with Strong

Fundamental Sciences Background

UNN also offers a wide spectrum of innovative forms of

training that are in great demand in the society. These

include short-term and accelerated programs for those

who want to obtain a second higher education degree

and for those who receive higher education on the basis

of intermediate professional education.

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Strong history of International Relations & long term partnerships

UNN is a recognized participant in the international

university network:

European University Association

Deans European Academic Network

Direct contractual relations with over 50 foreign

universities and academic institutions

UNN jointly with other European universities making

part of appropriate consortia has completed and

continues to implement a number of projects of the

European Commission:

18 Tempus projects (starting from 1994)

Erasmus Mundus projects

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International Best Practices in Tech Commercialization

European Accelerators and pre

seed funds are also emerging

rapidly

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Accelerators are also

operating across the US and

well known

Who benefits from these programs? - Angel Investors: reduced need for DD, Networking with founders & VC investors

- Venture Capital Investors: Improved deal pipeline, Networking, idea sourcing

- Large Technology Firms: talent scouting, new customers for platforms & services,

- Other Start-Up Founders: talent scouting & networking w/customers & investors

- Service Providers: new customers

Proof of Concept Centers (POC)

are well established in the US

Early stage support programs are

also starting to emerging in

Russia

Strategic goals for UNN’s innovation activity

- Focus operations on developing the ‘knowledge triangle,’ including

emphasis on; (1) education, (2) science, & (3) innovation;

- Focus on creating UNN Competitive Advantages in training a highly

competent cadre of creative innovators with strong entrepreneurial skills;

- Focus on developing a comprehensive innovation support ecosystem;

- Focus on developing collaborative partnerships with corporate customers,

including large government-owned companies, offering them contract-based

R&D and commercializing scientific research products;

- Focus on establishing a growing number of successful small innovative

companies, with priority given to developing new medical devices and high

tech biomedical technologies.

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“UNN 2020” - Long Term Development Plans:

Key stages in Russia’s innovation ecosystem

R&D

Concept development &

check

Preseed stage

Market potential evaluation,

Commercialization strategy

development

Preseed stage

Prototype development

Product development

Seed stage

Stage of the company & of the project

Company stage & product stage

Time

Product introduction on the market

Start-up

Company foundation

Product sale

Growth

Fun

ds

req

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emen

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Technology transfer centersPoC Centers Business accelerators,Techno parks Business incubatorsLaboratories

Bortnik Fund (START program), Regional grants &

subsidies, Branch grants

Business angels, Seed investors (RVC FSI)

Venture investors & fundsFinance sources deficit

Funds application directions

Infrastructure of support

Finance sources

Innovation development phases

Assumed new link

Sponsor funds, RFFI funds, Regional grants & scholarships,

UMNIK program etc.

Project appearance

From Russian Technologies to Global Markets

UNN Technology Commercialization Center

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UNN Innovation Ecosystem

Innovation company

Innovation company

UNN Rector

Center of technology commercialization

Center of innovation entrepreneurship

development for young scientists

UNN Student Business-Incubator

UNN-Marchmont Venture Lab.

Innovation company

Vice-rector for innovations

Innovation company

Innovation company

Innovation company

Selection of innovation

projects and company

founding

Promotion and support of

innovation companies

Innovation ideas generation

and project initiation

Coordination of

innovation

activities

FacultiesFaculties

Faculties

Innovationcenters/labs

Innovationcenters/labsDepartments

Departments

Departments

Research InstitutesResearch Institutes

Research Institutes

Innovationcenters/labs

Innovationcenters/labs

Branches(campuses)

Branches(campuses)

Branches(campuses)

Center for network integration

Innovation Lab. of Prototyping

Coordination of

innovation

activities

UNN Innovation Commercialization Support Structure

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UNN Technology Commercialization Center Structure

Putting together Viable Technologies Register

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Sources: Results:

Reports

Developers

(at their initiative)

R&D leaders

(upon results of communication) Database

Of potentially

advanced

technologies

Area of responsibility

1. Tech Transfer Center - IP Analysis Department

Collection of information about university know-how and its screening to make sure it’s good

enough to have related IP rights documented and registered.

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Primary functions

2. Tech Transfer Center - Patenting & Licensing Dept.

• Preparing applications for patents on inventions and useful

models

• Applying for certificates of government registration of software and

databases

• Monitoring status of university know-how

• Preparing contracts for transferring IP rights to third parties

• Consulting services for developers, processing paperwork for

author contracts

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Development strategy

• Preparation and analysis of licensing agreements

• Cross-border international patenting

• International transactions in transfer of technologies

• Development of a patenting strategy and optimization of UNN’s patenting

costs

• Buildup and management of UNN’s patent portfolio

• Due diligence in the IP field

• Broader consulting services to developers from UNN and other

organizations

Tech Transfer Center - Patenting & Licensing Dept.

Main objectives

• Legal support of the setup of a new small innovation company (including those

set up under Federal Law 217), assistance in their organizational issues.

• Legal support in registering IP rights for a small company’s know-how and other

proprietary items.

•Legal assistance in interaction with investors and institutional SME support

structures.

•Legal support of a small company’s contractual activity.

•Preparation and conducting of training sessions, seminars, workshops, etc.

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3. Department of Legal Support of Innovation

Main objectives

• Management in the process of analyzing, screening and packaging innovation

projects for investment.

• Development and adoption of mechanisms of monitoring and support for

innovative projects, including the following aspects:

• development of internal project environment (incl. assistance in setting up

small innovative companies under Federal Law 217);

• packaging of projects;

• development of a promotion program;

• search for potential investors.

• Preparation of UNN-originating innovation projects for participation in the US-

Russia Innovation Corridor (EURECA II).

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4. Proof-of-Concept (POC) Department

Assessment, screening and packaging

of innovation projects

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US-Russia Innovation Corridor: 2013 results

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In October 2013, five UNN companies visited the International Business Incubator at the

University of Maryland. PoC assisted them in preparing presentations to showcase their projects.

The trip has resulted in the following:

• ROSE (Lasens): a preliminary agreement has been reached with GenProMarkers, a U.S.-based biotech

company, to conduct clinical trials of the ROSE complex in the U.S. and Russia as required by FDA and Russian law.

A clinical trial program drafted by Lasens is currently being considered by GenProMarkers Inc.

• METEO: A demo version of the METEO system may be mounted on the University of Maryland campus

(perhaps supported financially by the MIPS grant program). Collaboration launched with the company “Earth-

networks” (global meteorological business project “WeatherBug”); an NDA signed.

• AlteroZoom: Maryland students tested AlteroZoom’s alpha version and found it user-friendly and an

interesting IT product. Participation in the MIPS program planned in partnership with Dr. Zhou in an effort to distribute

the AlteroZoom product among students at the University of Baltimore.

• RiCo: Further collaboration mapped out with PrimeTime and Golden Island, companies engaged in sales of

medical equipment in China and India. U.S.-based clinical trials scheduled in partnership with Physiotherapy.

• WIM: In October 2013, the company registered its U.S. subsidiary, WirelessInMotion LLC.

Proof-of-Concept (POC) Department

US-Russia Innovation Corridor: 2014 participants

Proof-of-Concept

Department

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In April 2014 4 UNN companies and 2 companies from Perm

National Research University will visit the business-incubator in the

University, State Maryland :

«KROKS-NN» LLC (Phys.Fac.UNN): XFormer – adaptive

modules for mammography

«Biotechnological Center «In vitro»LLC (Biolog.Fac.UNN):

Biotechnology of the micro-clonal reduplication for

orchids for medicinal raw

«Тectum» LLC(Chem.Fac., Biolog.Fac.UNN): «Теctum» -styptic

agent

«Radio Lab NN»LLC (Radio and Pfys.Fac. UNN): Software

package for the simulation of mobile communication systems

3G/4G/4G+

«Center ELT»LLC (PNRPU): Monitoring and operational control of

electron beam welding

“FM Diognostics" (Chem.and Biolg.Fac. PNRPU) Device

"Microtest" and methods to assess the mechanism of endothelial

regulation of vascular tone in small animal models in vivo

Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for 2014

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KPI 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q TOTAL

2014

Number of projects receiving consulting

services from PoC (project

application/booklet and/or preliminary

consultation)

25 35 20 20 100

Number of projects approved by PoC for

further joint effort in raising funding 5 7 4 4 20

Number of innovation projects that have

raised funding with assistance from PoC - 2 3 5 10

Main objectives

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5. Department for Innovation Business Development

• Search for new and screening of existing educational and training programs aimed

at developing special skills and knowledge in the field of innovation

entrepreneurship, and dissemination of relevant information among UNN innovators.

•Organization of expert support with mentors and experts (training, consulting,

ongoing mentoring).

•Organization of events for networking and innovation project promotion:

Assistance in putting together a network of partners and experts;

Fostering mutually beneficial interaction among innovators (scientists), businesses, the

investment community, and society.

• Promotion of innovation as an activity.

KomTech 2014

КоmTech 2014

Master-class program PitchNITE program

Aimed at developing special skills and

knowledge in innovation

entrepreneurship and disseminating

related information among innovators

and other ecosystem players.

Aimed at training innovators in best

project-pitching techniques for them to

be able to speak “a common language”

with investors, and at creating a

platform for interaction between

innovators and investors.

A series of KomTech 2014 innovation sessions planned for this year

With support Partners Co-organizer

КоmTech 2014

Organizers

- UNN TCC

- UNN Faculties

Coaches

-Speakers

- Experts

Partners

- Investors

- Members of business community

- Sponsors

KomTech

Innovation project developers Audience

Panel of experts

-Angel investors

-Corporate experts

- VC fund managers

With support Partners Co-organizer

Target audiences

With support Partners Co-organizer

Developers and owners of innovation projects;

Entrepreneurs;

Investors, business angels;

Researchers, postgraduates, students;

Players from innovative SMEs;

Experts.

Project Assessment & Packaging – Stages of Work

From Russian Technologies to Global Markets

1.Initial evaluation of the project’s idea &

selection

2. Technology & market

evaluation

3.Team building & training

4.Commercialization strategy & business plan development

5.Project professional packaging

Projects on different development stages

Raising of early stages

finance by the project

Proof of Concept Stage 6. Assistance in investment

search

(for some projects)

Russian Experts

Foreign Russian

Innovation

Diaspora

External Expertise

7.Project

assistance

Raising of next

stages finance by

the project

8. Business LAB

exit from the

project Innovation Project Ideas Packaged Business Plans

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New Innovative Development Center

25 000 square meters to be dedicated to the development UNN

infrastructure and the establishment of joint R&D facilities and

laboratories together with corporate partners

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General agreement of collaboration for creation the

Growth zone for medical equipment development and

biomedical high technologies between region government

and UNN was underwritten in September 2012.

The Growth zone is a biomedical cluster created to

support development of medical facility industry and

innovation activities in Nizhniy Novgorod region and Volga

federal district.

Collaboration between the Local Government and UNN

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Lobachevsky State University is a participant of the FTP

“Development of Russian Federation pharmaceutical & medical

industry for the period until 2020 and further perspective”

UNN Development Plans Supported by Federal Target Program

Source of funding 2011 - 2015 2012 2013 2014 2015

Federal budget 1130 113 136 381 500

Non-government sources 400 - - - 400

Total: 1530 113 136 381 900

Innovative

Development Center 25 000 square meter

Innovative Development Center - Current Construction

Current project situation.

Construction of IDC building will have been finished by the end of 2015.

The EURECA program and its partners have developed a new Innovation Corridor which can help to speed up the entry of viable Russian technology products into the US market.

From Russian Technologies to Global Markets

EURECA Program Innovation Corridor 2013 – 2014

The Technology Commercialization Center and its Venture LAB partners will pre-screen and package projects in the advanced medical diagnostics and devices sector for further development in the Maryland State University International Incubator

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Technology

Commercialization

Center

THANK YOU!

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