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The new wording of the state programme Economic Development and the Innovation-Driven Economy approved by Government Directive No. 467-R of March 29, 2013 includes the subprogramme Skolkovo Innovation Centre Establishment and Development (hereinafter referred to as the subprogramme).
The executive manager of the subprogramme is the Ministry of Finance, and its participants are the Ministry of Economic Development, the Federal Customs Service, and the non-government organisation the Centre for Technology Development and Commercialisation’s Promotion Fund. The subprogramme’s goal is to establish and ensure functioning of the Skolkovo innovation centre to advance the research, development and commercialisation of its results in priority areas.
To achieve this goal, the following objectives will be pursued:
- to create at the Skolkovo innovation centre an environment favourable to entrepreneurship and research in priority areas and its harmonious functioning in accordance with the Strategy for the Innovative Development of the Russian Federation up to 2020;
- to pioneer an engineering and entrepreneurship institute (Skolkovo Institute of Research and Technology) designed to serve as a model for a new type of Russian institute of technology, providing for education and knowledge and furthering technology to resolve key scientific, technological, and innovative problems in Russia and the world;
- to form a research and social infrastructure open to a constant inflow of talent.
The subprogramme’s target indicators and indices are:
- the number of patents taken out in foreign states;
- the volume of private investment attracted;
- the earnings of Skolkovo project companies obtained from research results (overall total);
- the number of magazine publications indexed in the Science Network (per Skolkovo Institute researcher);
- the percentage of Skolkovo Institute graduates involved in innovative activity;
- the integral contribution of the Skolkovo project to the Russian economy (overall total);
- the innovation centre’s coefficient of adaptation to life and work (“happiness coefficient”);
- the shortening of the average commercialisation deadlines of Skolkovo projects.
The subprogramme will be implemented in a single stage from 2013 to 2020 inclusive.
The total volume of financing allocated for the subprogramme from the federal budget in 2013-2020 will be 125.2 billion roubles, including 24.3 billion roubles in 2013, 23 billion roubles in 2014 and 18.3 billion roubles in 2015. The state programme’s financing parameters fall into line with the federal budget indicators for the 2013 and 2014-2015 planning period.
Furthermore, no less than 50% of the start-up costs of the Skolkovo innovation centre are planned to be obtained from private sources (public-private partnerships).
The assumption is that as a result of the subprogramme’s implementation, the number of requests for the state registration of intellectual property products submitted by Skolkovo project companies will rise from 159 in 2012 to 350 by 2020 (the overall total reaching over 2,000 by 2020). Such a level of activity corresponds with the performance of leading innovation centres.
In addition, the earnings of Skolkovo project companies obtained from research results are expected to rise from 1.2 billion roubles in 2012 to 100 billion roubles in 2020 (the overall total).
The volume of external financing to implement projects launched by Skolkovo participants and the Skolkovo Institute of Research and Technology will amount in the 2013 to 2020 period to over 110 billion roubles (overall total), which is comparable to similar indicators for leading innovation centres.
In 2020, the Skolkovo Institute of Research and Technology is planned to achieve an international reputation, to be working in accordance with global standards and to appeal to world-class scientists, gifted master’s degrees holders and PhD seekers. No less than 1,000 people will graduate from the institute each year. The number of publications per 100 researchers will increase to 75-85 by 2020. This level matches that of top European universities.
The centre’s construction, according to the layout plans, will be completed by 2020.
The full-scale systemic implementation of a package of measures to set up and develop the Skolkovo innovation centre will help establish a favourable environment for the promotion and reproduction of innovative processes in the Russian Federation.
The Skolkovo innovation centre is a key state policy instrument for developing new technology in the Russian Federation.
The Skolkovo centre will provide conditions for the creation and promotion of innovation startups, the launching of commercialisation mechanisms and the unification of all of the required elements to speed up the commercialisation of ideas – from finding financing to providing the necessary equipment to search for partners, markets and technology chains.
The document was approved at a Government meeting on August 1, 2013.