Сколтех — новый технологический университет, созданный в 2011 году в Москве командой российских и зарубежных профессоров с мировым именем. Здесь преподают действующие ученые, студентам дана свобода в выборе дисциплин, обучение включает работу над собственным исследовательским проектом, стажировку в индустрии, предпринимательскую подготовку и постоянное нахождение в международной среде.
Prof Edward Crawley, Skoltech’s President and Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar, the IIT’s director, signed a MoU during a round table discussion attended by Russian and Indian higher education leaders at the Moscow State University.
Skoltech and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) signed today a Memorandum of Understanding aimed to forge links between the two technological and innovation institutes.
The new partners agreed to develop a program for academic and research cooperation in areas of mutual interest and facilitate faculty and student exchanges. Prof Edward Crawley, Skoltech’s President and Prof. R.K. Shevgaonkar, the IIT’s director, signed the MoU during a round table discussion attended by Russian and Indian higher education leaders at the Moscow State University. The signing took place in the presence of Pranab Mukherjee, the President of India and Dmitry Livanov, Minister of Education and Science of Russia. India and Russia signed today a series of 11 MoUs to establish a network of higher education institutes and for cooperation in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry and computer sciences.
Established in 1961, The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is one of the country’s top public research universities. It was declared to be Institute of National Importance by the Government of India. Skoltech (the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) is an innovation focused university, established in 2011 as a collaboration between the Skolkovo Foundation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Twenty percent of all master’s and PhD students at Skoltech are international.
The purpose of the bilateral MoI is to establish a network that will work towards the consolidation of Russian and Indian research and educational institution’s efforts in training of high skilled specialists for the innovation economy, promotion of teachers and students academic exchange program.
The network’s overall goal is to serve as a unified scientific and educational space for the implementation of cooperation in the sphere of education, science and R&D. It aims to create a platform for joint research, educational and institutional programs; develop outsourcing of external financing from government bodies, public organizations, and private companies; and facilitate information exchange and the process of mutual recognition of diplomas and educational standards. The sides also agreed to organize and hold joint international scientific and methodological conferences, workshops, and tele-bridges.
Где: Moscow School of Management, Beijing-1 Auditorium – China cluster
We are pleased to invite you to the Skoltech Colloquium. This week two of the Institute’s experts discuss “Innovation at Skoltech”.
When: March 12, 4 pm
Where: Moscow School of Management, Beijing-1 Auditorium – China cluster
Speaker: Dmitry Pebalk, CEI Program manager, Skoltech
Dmitry Pebalk has experience both in basic research with a Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry from Moscow State University and also in R&D management with MBA from the Academy of National Economy under the President of Russian Federation (Moscow). During his career he was involved in laboratory management, technology consulting and development of corporate R&D center. Since 2013 Dmitry joined Skoltech to manage Innovation Support Program as a core part of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI). He is also a board member of non-profit association for support of chemical and ecological education (http://www.chemeco.ru/).
What: On a way to innovation factory: Skoltech innovation program as a tool to make impact with your ideas
Abstract: This talk aims to explain the institute community the benefits of participation and organization of Skoltech innovation program. Starting with the general consideration of innovations systematic approach towards building of innovation factory at university is presented. Special emphasis is put on the original methodology of MIT Deshpande center and the way how it was adopted at Skoltech. Several examples are considered to explain the contents of the program and advantages of its participants. Plans for 2015/16 program cycle and key deadlines are discussed.
Speaker: Sergey Ulyakhin, Licensing and Technology Transfer Manager, Skoltech
Sergey Ulyakhin is working at Skoltech as a Licensing and Technology Transfer Manager since 2013. He has experience in both R&D and business. He obtained his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in polymer and solid-state physics from the Physics Department of the Moscow State University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 till 2011 he worked in the Moscow Technology Center of LG Electronics in various technology consulting, technology development and R&D management positions. Since 2011 till 2013 Sergey held a position of a Project Director – Head of advanced technologies department at ELTON, JSC where Sergey with his team has successfully fulfilled a technology development and commercialization project in the area of energy storage devices. In August 2013 Sergey joined Skoltech as a Licensing and Technology Transfer Manager.
What: Knowledge to impact: effective management of Skoltech’s intellectual assets
Abstract: Skoltech is a new type of university which is based on 3 pillars: research, education and innovation. The fact that differs Skoltech from many other Russian and foreign universities is that “innovation” pillar is the most important and essential one. According to Skoltech president’s message, Skoltech is aiming at becoming one of the most impactful universities in the world. In order to achieve this ambitious goal Skoltech is designing and implementing its knowledge management processes in a way as to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship for the effective creation and exploitation of its intellectual assets for the benefit of the general public. Protection and licensing of intellectual property is the essential part of this activity. This talk will explain how the Knowledge Transfer Office helps and supports researchers with promotion and commercialization of their inventions being created at Skoltech and/or with support of Skoltech.
* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Где: Digital October Center, 6 Bersenevskaya Embankment - Building 3, Moscow
Sponsored by MIT in collaboration with Skoltech
Date & Location
December 15, 2014; Digital October Center, 6 Bersenevskaya Embankment – Building 3, Moscow, 119072, Russian Federation.
Background
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) – in collaboration with the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) – invites you to the Russian-American Research Symposium, with exciting, hands-on opportunities to:
Exchange novel ideas in translational research, innovation, and entrepreneurship;
Meet over 30 leading Russian and MIT scientists who will present their research and share valuable insights on scientific trends in Biomedicine, Energy, Computational Science and Technology, Advanced Materials, and Aerospace;
Engage with academic and student innovators in a special session focused on Entrepreneurship and the Research University;
Learn about and share cutting edge scientific trends;
Network with leading researchers, innovators, and students.
The Symposium will include plenary presentations, a panel focused on translational research, and parallel sessions for the different fields of science. All sessions will be in English. Please find the draft agenda and supportive information below. The MIT-Skoltech Initiative looks forward to welcoming you at Digital October in Moscow on December 15 for this exciting and timely event.
By e-mail or phone: or Mr. Vitaly Buldakov, Program Manager in Russia for the MIT-Skoltech Initiative at +7-929-985-39-44
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The triple helix model: government, business and academia
On September 11-13, the XII Triple Helix International Conference, titled “The Triple Helix and Innovation-based Economic Growth: New Frontiers and Solutions”, will be hosted in Tomsk, Russia, in partnership with Skoltech.
This conference is designed to analyze the interaction between universities/research institutions, government and industry, as well as its impact on the economic development of specific regions. The event will gather renowned experts from around the world to address the key question of the global agenda – the search for new sources of economic growth.The program will feature high quality academic presentations, parallel open sessions, panel discussions, and theme-based workshops.
Skoltech leadership will participate in the conference: the university’s President Edward Crawley slated to deliver an address at the plenary session “The Triple Helix and innovation-based economic growth: new frontiers and solutions”, and participate in a panel discussion on “University economic impact”.
Another key-note speaker Ilia Dubinsky, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Skoltech, who will discuss the university’s economic impact with the conference participants at a plenary session. Dubinsky will chair a paper presentation session on Technology Transfer, intended to analyze and suggest ways of teaching innovation more efficiently.
Mikhail Myagkov, Skoltech Vice-President for Academic Affairs and International Relations, will focus on project-based approach in educational programs, including its implementation at Skoltech during the panel «University-business collaboration: cooperative education».
Professor Kelvin Willougby will discuss issues of intellectual property creation and protection during the workshop “Open Innovation: Trends, Agenda, Impact”.
Skoltech representatives will also present a number of academic papers. The themes include:
“How a proof of concept model works in Russia: Experience from the first round of the Skoltech Innovation Program” (Dmitry Pebalk);
“The Specifics of Technology Transfer in Russia” (Sergey Ulyakhin);
“Spin-off as indicator of university-industry collaboration” (Konstantin Grasmik);
“Changes to IP Legislation in Russia and The Impact on Commercialization of University Research” (Anna Kochenkova);
“Business incubation in Russia: challenges and key success factors” (Anna Kochenkova).
* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Bridge the gap between lab and market, laptop and the real world. That’s what innovation is essentially about. That’s what Skoltech’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is about. And that’s what 6 projects supported by the center have to achieve.
Innovation can be found in the most unexpected places. Image courtesy Dan Mason, flickr
On June 3rd half a dozen teams will present their progress so far and hear expert advice on the way forward. Should these young researchers change course or push ahead in the current direction?
The 4th Innovation Program Conference is due to coincide with the Startup Village events, and take place on June 3, from 10:00 to 17:30, inside the Skoltech tent.
Research teams will present their projects and receive feedback on their progress since last autumn, when they were awarded a year of funding by the Skoltech Innovation Program (SIP). Projects will be assessed by their potential to translate research into market and to drive innovation and entrepreneurship in Russia.
While each project is unique in its focus, all projects share a general mission of using proven scientific findings to create practical real-world applications.
Participation in the conference is open to anyone sharing the center’s enthusiasm for early stage innovative projects and a willingness to support them. The Program aims to develop a common methodology and a series of novel approaches to organizing research and development in universities and research institutes. This year’s gathering is organized with support from the Skolkovo Foundation and API Moscow, Moscow Innovation Development Center.
ABOUT the SIP
The SIP provides critical support for participating teams. We help establish proof of concept and assist advancing technology towards commercialization, including pre-start up identification of high potential market opportunities, intellectual property management, and, if appropriate, team development. The Program helps reduce two major types of risk – technical and marketing, ensuring that the invention meets the market’s tech requirements and finds its niche. Thus, SIP promotes applied research and motivates research teams to take risk and be entrepreneurial.
The Program is developed in collaboration with the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Deshpande Center and MIT have an unparalleled track record of success in tech commercialization. Projects are selected in
the following areas: IT, Energy, Biomedicine, Space, and Peaceful Nuclear Technologies. Successful outcomes for each participating research team will be licensing its technology to industry. Skoltech provides support and assistance to the participants until they reach this result.
* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Easy, right? If it was, millions of entrepreneurs would make millions from day one of their business. But they need support.
On June 02, we will be hosting a panel discussion titled “How to Turn Your Idea into Money”. The session will feature a broad range of panelists with international experience and expertise in innovation entrepreneurship and technology transfer.
Seasoned panelists will be addressing questions such as:
– How do you develop a project from a promising idea towards a real product ready for international markets?
– What role do university and research institutes play in creating innovative technological ideas?
– The difference between Russian and international approaches to support and stimulate innovation and technology commercialization.
If only life was a flowchart: image courtesy ualr
Panel starts at 6:15 pm in the Hypercube Building, Skolkovo Innovation Center
For participation, please register on the Startup Village site
http://startupvillage.ru/
This event will take place during the Startup Village Conference and is organized by Skoltech in collaboration with the Intellectual Property Center “Skolkovo”.
* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Skoltech Innovation Program 2014 – Winners Announced
Skoltech has selected six research teams for the Skoltech Innovation Program 2014. The winning projects were selected from among more than 30 submissions based on technical feasibility, potential for commercialization, and the actual need for support from Skoltech. These brainchildren of students from all over Russia could have a real impact on society and industry. They give us good reasons to believe that Russian innovation is up to the mission of solving real problems in the world. That is why the winners will be invited to conclude legal agreements with Skoltech to receive support for their projects for one year.
The international review panel was impressed with the high quality of all the proposals. The decision-making process was difficult, with many worthy candidate projects vying for a limited number of spots.
The successful applicants are:
A Platform approach to develop new antibiotic leads based on microcins (Skoltech, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University)
Nanopipette electrochemical biosensors (Moscow State University, Department of Chemistry)
Superhydrophobisation of synthetic fabrics by deposition of ultrathin fluoropolymer films from solutions in supercritical carbon dioxide (Moscow State University, Department of Physics)
Perspective graphene-based materials with high absorption index in visible and near IR range (Moscow State University, Department of Physics)
Multisensor Device for Instrumental Toxicity Assessment (National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics, St. Petersburg Technical University)
Superplastic aluminum sheets (National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”)
photo courtesy www.jisc.ac.uk/
More detailed information about the projects:
1. A platform approach to the development of new antibiotic leads based on microcins
Research Area: Gene- and nano-medicine, Translational medicine
Project Summary:The rapid global spread of bacterial resistance to existing antibiotics and the dearth of development of new antibiotics leads to a significant societal problem that will become even more serious if no action is taken in the near future (it also happens to be the subject of our May 12 seminar with Nobel laureate professor Sidney Altman). This proposal aims to try to help solve this problem by developing and evaluating antibacterial agents based on microcins – ribosomally-encoded antibacterial peptides. Unlike most antibiotics, which are synthesized by complex enzymes, microcin peptide precursors are encoded by genes. Therefore, the power of molecular genetics can be brought to create large libraries of microcin derivatives among which molecules with desired properties can be sought for further development.
Nanopipette electrochemical biosensors
Research Area:Gene- and nano-medicine
Project Summary:Project is focused on development of modification methods for electrodes integrated in nanopipette. The research team has already obtained preliminary results on application of modified nanopipette for intracellular biosensing. Tools based on double barrel nanopipettes with integrated sensitive electrodes have a great potential to be implemented in pharmaceutical companies for drug discovering. Equipment based on “Smart” nanopipette technology will enable 35000 times faster screening and a 5000 times reduction in the number of cells required.
3. Superhydrophobisation of synthetic fabrics by deposition of ultrathin fluoropolymer films from solutions in supercritical carbon dioxide
Research Area: Advanced materials
Project Summary:We propose a new promising technique of imparting superhydrophobic properties to synthetic fabrics by depositing ultrathin fluoropolymer films from the solutions in supercritical carbon dioxide (SC CO2). This technology has a wide range of applications. It will allow to create self-cleaning breathable waterproof fabrics for production of clothes and outdoor equipment. While participating in the Program the team plans to develop prototypes of fabrics with stable superhydrophobic properties.
4. Perspective graphene-based materials with high absorption index in visible and near IR range
Research Area: Quantum physics/technology; Advanced materials
Project Summary:The project implies the development of the fabrication technology and studies of optical characteristics of Carbon Nanowalls (CNWs) in a wide wavelength range from 300 nm up to 200 μm. The main idea is to optimize the CNWs fabrication technology in order to compose highly absorptive and nonreflective nanocoatings.
5. Multisensor Device for Instrumental Toxicity Assessment
Research Area: Machine learning and artificial intelligence; Advanced materials
Project Summary:This project aims to develop and advance the multisensor device and software for instrumental toxicity assessment in environmental monitoring. Recently we accomplished the proof of concept for a new approach to toxicity evaluation. This new concept is based on instrumental measurements in samples with a specially developed electrochemical multisensor system and multivariate processing of the obtained data. This combination of sensor array and chemometric techniques allows for toxicity determination in terms of bioassay without immediate involvement of living creatures (besides on a calibration stage); measurements are fast and simple; the results are in toxicity units of corresponding biotest method. Such kinds of experiments are unique and were never reported in scientific periodicals before and we see a very attractive business opportunity in their advancement towards the environmental monitoring market.
6. Superplastic aluminum sheets
Research Area: Advanced materials; Composite materials, structure, and construction
Project Summary:Superplasticity is the specific state in which solid crystalline material can be deformed well beyond its usual breaking point: usually more than 200 % during tensile deformation. This project is direct to the optimization of the alloys composition and laboratory technology of superplastic aluminum sheets producing. The main purposes of the project include developing of the new materials, and producing the thickened sheets for commercial introduction. The new materials offers opportunities to reduce part count by forming components in a single piece, increase structural integrity of the part and assembly, reduce part weight, and speed up final assembly.
* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.
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